Four suspects arrested in connection with killing and beheading 20-year-old girl have been remanded by an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court on Thursday. The suspects charged are Balogun Mustakeem, 20, Majekodunmi Soliudeen, 18, Abdulgafa Lukman, 19, and Waris Oladeinde, 18. They were charged to court on a two-count charge of conspiracy and murder of 20-year-old Sofiat Okeowo. Meanwhile, Magistrate I. O Abudu did not take the plea of the accused and ordered that they be remanded in prison. Abudu ordered that they should be remanded in Oba correctional service, pending Legal advice from Ogun State Director of Public Prosecution, DPP. According to…
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A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Olajide Ajana, has called on parents and political leaders to give proper training to their children in order to reduce crimes in the society. Ajana, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, made this call on the heels of the growing trend of ritual killings and cyber crimes across the country. The legal practictioner said that cyber frauds and ritual killings in the country usually involve the youth adding that despite their becoming rampant, they could still be curtailed. “On daily basis, we hear the news of how young adults are getting involved in ritual…
The medical practitioner, Dr. Owhojede Henry Aghogho who is the Oromonis’ family doctor, has said that the late Sylvester Oromoni Jnr. was rushed to his hospital ‘Dead on Arrival’. He emphatically disclosed this when he took the witness stand at the coroner inquest sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday. Dr. Owhojede gave evidence before the Coroner, Magistrate Mikhail Kadiri saddled with the assignment to unravel the circumstances leading to the death of late Sylvester. During cross-examination of his evidence by Anthony Okpoko, counsel to Dowen College and Godwin Omoaka, SAN, who represented one of the five students said to have assaulted…
The matriach of the Bruce’s family, Mrs. Margret Murray-Bruce is dead. She died on Tuesday morning at the age of 95. Mrs. Margaret Murray-Bruce had a privileged beginning having been born into wealth. Her British father was an engineer with the Nigerian marine who in those days helped to man the Nigerian waterways. She was a very religious woman and was survived by children and grandchildren.
For consistently defiling a 14-year-old girl, 23-year-old security guard, Blessing Okon has been sentenced to the life imprisonment. This is the judgement of the Domestic and Sexual Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos presided over by Justice Abimbola Soladoye. In her judgement, Justice Soladoye said the prosecution proved the essential ingredients of defilement beyond reasonable doubt and that the victim was consistent in her statement and oral testimony which she said was corroborated by other evidence before the court and found the defendant guilty as charged. According to the judge the corroborative evidence showed penetration of the hymen, though it was…
Again, proceedings slated to hold at the coroner inquest sitting in Ikeja, seeking to unravel the circumstances leading to the death of a student of Dowen College, Sylvester Oromoni failed to hold on Monday. This is as a result of non-appearance of two witnesses – the deceased’s father, Mr. Sylvester Oromoni Snr. and his sister. The reason for their inability to appear before the Coroner, Magistrate Mikhail Kadiri is attributed to ill health, counsel to the Oromoni’s, Mr. Andrew Efole informed the court. He said,“The girl who ought to testify is sick, the father who ought to be here is…
Four boys have been arrested for killing and beheading their friend’s girlfriend for the purpose of money-making ritual. Also arrested is their victim’s boyfriend. The suspects, between ages 17 and 20 years were arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command in the early hours of Saturday January 29. They are Wariz Oladehinde, 17 years, Soliu Majekodumi, 18, Abdul Gafar Lukman 19 years and Mustakeem Balogun 20 years. The suspects were arrested following a piece of information received at Adatan divisional headquarters by the head of the community security guard, that the suspects were seen burning something suspected to be…
The world is commemorating the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, a symbolic date commemorating the victims of Nazism. January 27, commemoration align with the UN’s 2022 Remembrance Day theme, “Memory, Dignity, and Justice.” A press release issued by Jehovah’s Witnesses, it noted that murderous Nazi terror targeted millions for reasons of biology, nationality, or political ideology. But it is a lesser known fact that the Nazis’ victims included thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who suffered for their Christian faith. Jehovah’s Witnesses, also then known as Bible Students, were “the only group in the Third Reich to…
For impregnating his own 15-year-old daughter, a 42-year-old man Ekpo Lawrence has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The judgement was delivered by Justice Abiola Soladoye on Thursday at the Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court in Ikeja and no option of fine was given. The judge said the prosecution diligently proved the the ingredients of the charge of defilement that was proffered against Ekpo by the Lagos Government. The trial judge found Lawrence guilty of defilement contrary to Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015. According to Justice Soladoye, “The inglorious conduct of this defendant is dirty,…
The coroner inquest into the collapsed building in Ikoyi continue at Ikeja court premises on Thursday, January 27, 2022. At the proceeding, the Director General/Chief Executive Officer of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency LASEMA, Dr. Oluwafemi Damilola Oke-Osayintolu gave a vivid account of how the rescue operations were carried out by responders. He gave evidence that none of the victims of the collapsed building died during the rescue operations saying that evidence showed that they were all dead before the rescue operations commenced. The 21-storey high-rise building located at Gerard Road, Ikoyi, Lagos collapsed killing 50 people. While being led…