by Admin | Mar 29, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Rivers state police command today arrested three persons in connection with the murder of a Jumia delivery man who had gone to deliver an iPhone and a motorbike to a prospective buyer at a compound in the Ada-George area of Rivers state. According to OAP, Blessing Olomu, the suspected were alleged to have perpetrated the heinous act on Saturday, 25th of March when the victim was on his way to make a delivery to the address at Ada George Road, Port Harcourt. The suspects which included two males and a female, who never intended to pay for the ordered goods, bound the man and threw him into a septic tank with the hopes that he would never be found. The victim’s body was recovered by a team of police officers today after neighbors reported suspicious activities within the compound. Source: The...
by Admin | Mar 29, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A mortuary attendant at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Muritala Raimi, 57, who was arraigned Monday before Magistrate Akanni Monsurat of Ibadan Magistrates’ Court for stealing a human skull in the morgue has been remanded at the Agodi Prisons, Ibadan. Raimi who was arraigned on a two-count charge was remanded in Agodi Prison for failing to meet conditions attached to his bail. Magistrate Akanni granted the accused bail in the sum of N200, 000 with two sureties in like sum. One of the sureties, he ordered, must be a member of the family. He adjourned the case to May 5, 2017 for further hearing. The accused was alleged to have decapitated the head of the yet to be identified corpse and concealed it in a bag. He was arrested by the security guard on his way out of the hospital. He was later handed over to the police. The charge sheet of his case read in part, “That you, Muritala Raimi, aged 57, on the 15th May, 2017 at about 05: 30pm at UCH Ibadan in Ibadan magisterial district did steal human skull inside UCH mortuary and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 3 of the criminal code cap 38 vol. 11 laws of Oyo State of Nigeria. “That you, Muritala Raimi on the same date, place in the aforementioned magisterial district did misconduct with regard to a corpse by decapitating the corpse deposited at UCH mortuary and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 242 of the criminal code cap cap 38, vol. 11 laws of Oyo State”. Source:...
by Admin | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A Karmo Grade I Area Court, Abuja, on Tuesday sentenced one Wisdom Gabriel, 22, to two months imprisonment for stealing N 170 at a chemist’s shop in old Karmo Market. The judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave the convict N5,000 option of fine. The judge said that the sentence would serve as deterrent to others that may be tempted to commit similar crime. Gabriel who resides at Aiko Estate, Life Camp Gwarinpa, pleaded with the judge to tamper justice with mercy. He was found guilty on a count charge of stealing a box containing N170. The convict told the court that satan pushed him into the crime. Earlier, the prosecutor, Zannah Dalhatu, told the court that one Helen Atusu of old Karmo arrested and brought the convict to Karmo Police Station, on March 24, 2017. Dalhatu said that the complainant said that on the same date, the convict broke into her chemist’s shop at old Karmo Market and made away with her box containing N170. She raised an alarm which led to the arrest of the convict with the help of one chukwuma Eze. The prosecutor said that the offence is punishable under Section 287 of the Penal...
by Admin | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Police on Tuesday arraigned 18-year-old Jimoh Idowu, in an Apapa Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly stabbing a friend, Toheeb Jimoh, with a stick in the eyeball. Though Idowu pleaded not guilty, the Magistrate, Mr M.A.Etti, ordered that he should be remanded in prison custody. Etti ordered that Idowu should be remanded in prison due to the critical condition of the complainant. The prosecutor, Sgt. Olusegun Kokoye, told the court that the defendant, who resides at Ajegunle area of Lagos, committed the offence on March 14 around 4.30 p.m. at Railway Line, Ijora Badia, Lagos. He said the accused assaulted Idowu with a sharp stick. Kokoye alleged that the two were coming back from school when an argument ensued between them. The prosecutor said the complainant was rushed to the hospital by pedestrians, who were at the scene of the incident. Kokoye said that Idowu tried to escape after the incident, but was apprehended by witnesses and taken to the police station. He said the offence contravened Section 244 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Section 244 prescribes three-year jail term for wounding and similar acts. Etti adjourned further hearing in the case till April 11 for...
by Admin | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, sentenced 10 men to two weeks imprisonment each for loitering. The men, Emmanuel Hassan, Bagu Ayuba, Nicholas Jeremiah, Uchenna Hysinth, Tunde Musa, Daniel Abel, Paul Bago, Adeniyi Oladepo, Nicholas Titus, and Awalu Usman, were arraigned on a charge of constituting public nuisances. The convicts were accused of loitering around Gwarimpa area, Abuja, an offence they admitted committing. The judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave the men an option of N2,000 fine each and warned them to desist from committing crimes. Earlier, the prosecutor, Florence Auhioboh, told the court that a police patrol team attached to Gwarimpa Estate, Abuja, led by DSP Solomon Adebayo, arrested the men on March 25. Auhioboh said that the men were arrested while loitering at an area in Gwarimpa notorious for crimes. She said that when the police quizzed the men, they could not give satisfactory explanation of their mission in the area. The prosecutor said that the offence committed was punishable under Section 183 of the Penal Code. The men who pleaded guilty prayed the court to temper justice with mercy as they did not know the area was a black spot....
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