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A pastor with a new generation church, the Royal Prince Prophetic Ministry, Chukwuemeka Eze, has been arrested by the Enugu State Police Command for allegedly killing his girlfriend, Miss Ogechukwu Ogbodo.

Eze allegedly killed his girlfriend for refusing to buy a tricycle for him.

Southern City News gathered that the suspect had been in a relationship with the deceased, who hailed from Amagunze in the Nkanu-East Local Government Area of the state for five years.

Ogechukwu, who was residing at the Railway Quarter, was a recharge card sales agent until her death.

She was said to have returned home on July 15, 2019, with over N2m, which she intended to deposit in the bank the next day.

However, the suspect, after discovering that the deceased had gone home with a huge amount of money, paid her a visit and allegedly killed her.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Ebere Amaraizu, confirmed the development and said Eze was arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.

Amaraizu stated that the suspect had after killing his girlfriend, ransacked her house and took the money and title documents to the deceased’s landed property.

The PPRO said Eze immediately used the money to procure musical instruments and carried out a total renovation of the church.

He added that the suspect had confessed to the crime.

Eze, according to the police spokesman, killed his girlfriend because she refused to purchase a tricycle for him though she had been buying tricycles for people in the community on hire purchase.

The PPRO added that the suspect was already helping the police in their investigation and would soon be charged.

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A mother (name withheld) yesterday informed an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court that her two-year-old daughter (name withheld) was allegedly defiled by Afeez Balogun, the 27-year-old bus driver of her school in Lagos.

Mother of two who was the first witness for the prosecution in her testimony revealed during Balogun’s trial for allegedly defiling the child in the school premises.

Led in evidence by Mrs Fehinti Ogbemudia, the prosecution counsel, the mother said that the defendant was a school driver at her daughter’s former school.

She stated before the proceeding Judge Justice Abiola Soladoye that the alleged defilement occurred in 2018 when the complainant was two-years-old.


“He (Balogun) was the bus driver for my daughter’s former school called Holbrook Schools located at Gbagada. My daughter is currently three-years and 11-months old and she is currently in Nursery one.

“On July 5, 2018, my daughter woke up to ease herself at around 12.30a.m. and while she was easing herself, she was crying and her terminology then was that ‘my bum-bum is paining me’.

“I tried to find out what the problem was. I took her to the bedroom and my husband and I asked if anyone had hurt her bum-bum and she said yes.”

She told the court that she went to the school with her daughter and informed the school administrators about the development.

Her words: “At the school they brought all the male staff and she (the complainant) was asked to identify who had hurt her and she identified Mr. Afeez Balogun by running straight to him. That was the first time she identified him.”

The witness told the court that morning after leaving the school, she went to the Office of the Public Defender, OPD, with her daughter where an officer was assigned to their case.

She said her daughter was asked for the second time at the OPD who had defiled her and she again identified the defendant.

The mother alleged that they were referred further from OPD to the Mirabel Center, a sexual assault referral center, located at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).

“At Mirabel Center, some doctors examined her and they identified bruises and they said there were signs of forced entry in her private part,”. She said.

The mother also told the court that at the Gender Unit of the Ikeja Command of the Nigeria Police Force her daughter for the third time, positively identified Balogun in a police lineup.

She said that the defendant was also taken to Pedro Police Station where another police lineup was conducted.

“At Pedro Police Station she again pointed at Mr Afeez Balogun making it four times that she identified him as the person who hurt her. That was when he was arrested,” the mother said.

While being cross-examined by Mr Quddus Mumuni, the defence counsel, the mother informed the court that the medical tests conducted on her daughter had revealed that there were fresh and old bruises on her daughter’s private part.

She also said when she was questioning her daughter about who allegedly defiled her, her daughter due to her young age, had referred to the defendant as Mr Wale, another teacher at the school.

“The defendant is not Mr Wale but she referred to him as Mr Wale several times. I also did not ask my daughter questions at the various identity parades,” she said.

According the prosecution, the defendant committed the alleged offence in July 2018 at a Gbagada, Lagos, school.

“Balogun defiled the complainant who was two-years-old at the time by having unlawful sexual intercourse with her,” Ogbemudia said.

According to her, the offence contravenes Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 which recommends a life sentence for any individual found guilty of defiling a minor.

Justice Abiola Soladoye adjourned the case till November 20 for continuation of the cross-examination of the witness while the defendant remained in prison custody.

A high court in Zamfara State has sentenced a father and his son to death by hanging for committing culpable homicide in the state.

Culpable homicide is an act which has resulted in a person’s death but is held not to amount to murder.

The convicted father Hamida Ibrahim and his son and Ashiru Ibrahim had stabbed Rabiu Tudu with a knife following a dispute between them which resulted in the death of the victim.

In his ruling, the presiding judge, Justice Muktar Yushau, said the convicts were arraigned in 2018 on two count charges of criminal conspiracy and culpable homicide.

He explained that culpable homicide is punishable under Section 221 of the Penal Code.

The presiding judge ruled that both the father and his son were guilty,

“They are sentenced to death by hanging until they are confirmed dead.” he ruled.

Vanguard newspaper learnt that Hamida Ibrahim and his son Ashiru Ibrahim were native of Gobirawa village in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara state and were found guilty of culpable homicide.

Rapper, Eedris Abdulkareem, alongside other artistes including Baba Fryo and Felix Duke, led protesters in July to the Redeemed Christian Church of God’s Redemption Camp along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. They claimed that the protest was to mount pressure on the leader of the church, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, to speak up about the worsening state of insecurity in the country

The protest triggered diverse reactions on social media with many Nigerians questioning the veteran rapper’s decision to be part of such a demonstration.


Speaking on why he joined the protest, Eedris told Sunday Scoop, “Questioning my decision to be part of any positive and uplifting work that benefits mankind is tantamount to questioning my whole essence. I stand for the people because I am the people; you are the people, we are all the people. The fear of the Most High is the ultimate, not the fear of any human being.

“There was no acrimonious or defaming approach. We just went there to passionately plead with the venerable man of God to join his powerful and influential voice with other well-meaning Nigerians in calling on the government of the day to do the needful by sincerely fighting the worsening plague of heinous killings, kidnappings and destruction of properties and means of livelihood, attributed to herdsmen.


“We also wanted him to influence the Vice President, (Yemi Osibanjo), who is his spiritual son, to be up and doing, and either shape up or ship out. That was exactly what we did, and we left peacefully, just like we went there.”

The Jaga Jaga crooner also added that the bail granted Sowore is worth applauding, stating that the freedom has to be true liberty.

“Most definitely, we are celebrating the fact that Sowore has been granted bail. Let the freedom be true freedom and he should be honourably discharged and acquitted of all the trumped up charges.”

Woman jailed for 13 years after she cut off her boyfriend's joystick for sharing their sex tape.

A woman has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for cutting off her boyfriend's penis during sex because he shared their sex tapes with friends.

Brenda Barattini, 28, chopped off the penis of Sergio Fernandez, 42, two years ago and was recently found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to 13 years behind bars.

The accountant confessed she had planned the attack on November 25, 2017, but said she had not intended to kill her former boyfriend.

Her trial in Cordoba, Argentina, heard how Barattini cut through 90 per cent of musician Sergio’s penis with garden shears after blindfolding him and performing a sex act on him.

She told the court she had planned to carry out revenge on her then-boyfriend because he had been sharing X-rated pictures and videos of her, claiming he treated her like a "trophy".

She told a jury of four men and four women: "It violated my privacy, my life and my career."

Narrating how he was attacked, Sergio told the court: "After she put the blindfold on she told me I had to guess where she was touching me.

"She also wanted to tie me up but I didn’t let her. She began to practice MouthAction on me. I suddenly felt something. She wanted to kill me in that second."

Sergio was rescued by neighbours and spent eight days in a coma.

After her arrest, Barattini initially claimed she had been defending herself from a sexual assault by Sergio. She later changed her story and admitted she had carried out the attack in revenge.

Barattini is expected to appeal the sentence at a later date. Defence lawyer Lucas de Olmos claims the decision of the court was "unheard of" in Argentina.

The lawyer said: "No-one has ever been convicted in this country of attempted murder for a penis wound."

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday remanded a man, Ayobiojo Hammed, who was allegedly caught peddling marijuana at the Lagos Command of the National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

Justice Sule Hassan kept Hammed, of 7, Moshalashi Street, Empire, Surulere, Lagos, in prison custody, following his plea of guilty to a one-count charge of unlawfully distributing 630 grammes of the narcotic drug.

He adjourned till October 11 for review of the facts of the case and sentencing.

Earlier, NDLEA prosecutor Fingere Dinneys alleged that Hammed was arrested on March 26, 2019, while distributing 630 grammes of the substance to some construction workers on the NDLEA’s premises, No. 4, Shaw Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.

The court heard that the defendant’s offence infringed Section 20(1)(a) of the NDLEA Act, 2004 and was punishable under Section 20(2)(a) of the same Act.

Following Hammed’s plea, his counsel, C. W. Ezeonyeziaku, who stood in for Mrs. Susan Agu, did not oppose the prosecution’s remand application.

The charge against the defendant marked FHC/L/198c/19, reads: “That you Ayobiojo Hammed, Male, Adult, of 7, Moshalashi Street, Empire Surulere, Lagos on or about 26th March, 2019, at 4, Shaw Road, Ikoyi, Lagos without lawful authority distributed 630 grammes of Cannabis Sativa otherwise known as Marijuana, a narcotic drug similar to Cocaine, LSD and Heroin and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 20(1)(a) and punishable under Section 20(2)(a) of the NDLEA Act 2004”.

An Ibadan-based fashion designer, Esther Isaiah, on Wednesday accused her step-father, John Dickson, of raping her and sexually abusing her younger sister, NAN reports.

Testifying in a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, Isaiah,20, also alleged that her step-father was responsible for her childlessness.

“Our step-father, started molesting me at age 12 and my younger sister, whenever we visit our mother in her matrimonial home.

“Whenever my mother is not at home, my step-father will threaten that he will kill me if I don’t allow him sleep with me. So, I allowed him in order to live.

“He raped me so many times. I never told my mother because I didn’t know what will happen, but, I told my friends.

“He also raped my younger sister. She told me that our step-father comes into the room where she sleeps with a mask and rapes her,” she said.

Earlier, Dickson who spoke through an interpreter said that he filed the divorce suit on grounds of abandonment.

He alleged that his wife, Mary, abandoned him for three years without any reason.

However, Mary, countered her husband’s submission of abandonment when she described him as evil and an animal in human skin.

“It is true that I left Dickson’s home. He raped my daughter, one of the two children I had before I married him.

“The girl was afraid to tell me what my husband did to her and she stopped visiting me.

“In Cross River, where I am from, it is a taboo for a man to sleep with a step-daughter and her mother.

“Except a certain sacrifice is performed, the step-daughter might never conceive and the mother will die.

”I am currently sick and need urgent spiritual deliverance,” Mary said.

After listening to the testimonies, Chief Ademola Odunade, the court’s President, ordered all the parties concerned to ensure that they did the needful since it was a matter of life and death.

He held that Dickson might be charged with felony.

The arbitrator adjourned the case till Oct. 15 for judgment.