Female Lawyer Killed, Mutilated Body found in her Chambers

Tribune: A female lawyer, Ijeoma Micah, was found dead, with body mutilated in her chamber in the highbrow Maitama area of Abuja, on Sunday.

The owner of Micah and Micah Chambers was found dead in her office, three days after she was missing.

Her husband, who was learnt, came back from London on Sunday morning, rushed to her office, after he had not heard from her, only to find her lifeless body.

After the discovery, he went to the police station to report the case.

The Commissioner of Police, Femi Ogunbayode, said some men had called the deceased to her office for some business transaction after which she was missing.

The police boss added that a security detail that followed Ifeoma everywhere had been arrested and interrogated for complicity in the case.

Police quiz cop caught demanding ₦10,000 bribe

Punch: The Anambra State Police Command on Wednesday said it had begun questioning the policeman attached to one of its divisions in Onitsha, caught on video demanding a bribe of ₦10,000 from a motorist.

The state conmmand’s Police Public Relations Officer, Emeka Chukwuemeka, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone, said the outcome of the investigation would be made public as soon as it was concluded.

Chukwuemeka, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said the manner the video was shot made it easy for the authorities to identify the policeman in question.

The police spokesman, who assured members of the public that the policeman would be made to face the full wrath of the law if found guilty, said the police would not condone any acts of corruption.

7-year-old girl steals iPhone under the watchful eyes of the ‘mother’ {VIDEO}

In a CCTV footage posted on youtube, a 7-year-old girl was seen stealing an iPhone from a customer in a restaurant in Norwood, Johannesburg, South Africa, with the consent of a woman, presumed to be her mother.

According to reports, the stolen phone belongs to a 17-year-old girl.

In the video, four women and a child were seen walking into the restaurant and later separated into two groups. Thereafter the little pilferer was given the signal by the two women she was with, and promptly stole the iPhone. As soon as the phone was stolen, they left without ordering anything.

“I learnt how to open Safe and ATM machine on Youtube” – Suspect

At the weekend, police arrested a suspect who specialises in vandalising Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) in Abuja and collecting all the money in the machines.

According to informed police source, at about 10.00 a.m on Saturday, detectives attached to Utako division received a report from a bank located at Jabi that an ATM machine had been vandalised, with money removed.

Immediately, policemen were dispatched to the scene. They discovered that the ceilings of the building were removed and CCTV camera monitor tampered with.

The policemen further moved to the toliets and noticed some doors were locked from behind.

After forcing the doors open, the suspect, Jamilu Hassan, 27, was found hiding and subsequently arrested.

Delta State Commissioner stabbed by protesting PDP youth

The commissioner for Secondary and Basic Education, Professor Patrick Muoboghare was on Saturday stabbed by youth protesting over the list of the party executives in Uwheru and Agbarho wards.

The youth who are members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) went on rampage after accusing the commissioner of manipulating the list of ward congresses held last year.

A bulk of the protesting PDP members were said to be from the commissioner’s home town, Uwheru.

Several other party members were injured in the fracas.

Vanguard reports:

The aggrieved youths, who stormed the party secretariat in large numbers, disrupted the inauguration ceremony for hours, as party leaders and political office holders in the area ran for safety. The youth destroyed plastic chairs and other property belonging to the party.

ANOTHER BABY FACTORY: Hairdresser, 3 others nabbed in Enugu

An Enugu-based female hairdresser, Ifeoma Obike, who allegedly combined her business with the illicit trade of baby factory, has been arrested by operatives of Anti Human Trafficking Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department of Enugu State Police Command.

Ifeoma, who claimed to be a native of Oguta in Imo State and a popular hairstylist in New Haven, Enugu, according to the police, allegedly tried to augment her earnings from her legitimate business by engaging in the “baby for sale” trade which had been thriving in many parts of the South-East for some time.

Ifeoma who claimed to have five children out of wedlock, however, denied being involved in child trafficking but she was found with a baby, which she claimed belonged to her sister in Lagos.

The police said she would be taken to Lagos to confirm her claim though the operatives doubted her because the baby was too tender to be cared for by any person other than her mother.

What a man can do…: Female Graduate leads 7-man robbery gang [PHOTOS]

The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), has apprehended a seven-man robbery gang spearheaded by a woman, Chioma Ezekwesiri, in Lagos, south-west, Nigeria.

The suspects, 41-year-old Amadi Igwe,  24-year-old Raymond Chukwuka, 27-year-old Ignatius Okeredi, 52-year-old Michael Madu, 52, and 28-year-old Okechukwu Jerome, and Chioma were arrested while trying to rob Bolatito Hotel, located at Kola bus stop,in  Ijaiye area of Lagos.

According to Ezekwesiri, she had arranged for the guns with Raymond Chukwuka which they were supposed to use for the operation, which she insisted was a land matter, whereas the police said their mission was allegedly to rob a male customer of the hotel who also sells fertilizer of N8 million.

PM News reports;

The alleged robbery operation, according to the police, was foiled by some staff of the hotel, who promptly made a distress call to SARS operatives.

Six-year-old rape victim ordered to wed rapist's 8-year-old son

A caste council in Rajasthan has ordered the parents of a six-year-old rape victim to get her married to the eight-year-old son of the man accused of the rape, police said on Thursday.

The incident occurred at Keshavpura in Kota, 250 km from Jaipur (Jaipur is the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan).

The 40-year-old man, identified as Kailash, raped the girl who lives in his neighbourhood about a fortnight ago, police said.

"Kailash locked her in a room and raped her. Instead of registering a police complaint, elders belonging to the girl's caste called a panchayat (village council) meeting," a police official said.

Nigerian Lady arrested with drugs at the airport in Dar es Salaam [PHOTOS]

Anthonia Ojo, a Nigerian, was yesterday arrested at the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) carrying 99 pellets of unknown drugs in her luggage.

Police detained the 25-year-old businesswoman from Abuja as she was about to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight destined for France.

From France, she had planned to travel to Italy where she was scheduled to take another flight to Abuja.

Airports police boss Renatus Chalya told journalists the suspect was arrested after a screening machine detected drug pellets in her luggage.

“We then searched her thoroughly and found that the suspect was carrying four tins stuffed with drugs,” Mr Chalya said.

He said the suspect had stuffed 15 pellets in each of two containers of body lotion while two baby powder bottles were filled with 35 and 34 pellets.

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FBI declares Nigerian Wanted over $770,000 Internet Love Scam

Olaniyi Victor Makinde, a 26 year old serial internet fraudster is top on the wanted list of the United States of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI. Makinde has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Trouble started for Makinde when investigations revealed that he had been defrauding several foreigners, especially Americans in marriage scam and related offences, through the internet. He was also accused of masterminding serious hacking practices against an American online pay roll services company, Intuit, in California.

12-year-old boy, 2 Pastors and others arrested for pipeline vandalism

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have arrested 30 people for alleged pipeline vandalism in Isheri Olofin area of Ogun State.

The suspects were arrested on Saturday morning after a combined team of NSCDC officials from the Lagos and Ogun state commands engaged in a gun duel with some pipeline vandals.

Among those arrested are a 12-year-old boy, Azeez Ajani; a 13-year-old boy, Michael Oyedotun, two pastors, six women and 20 others.

The Commandant, Ogun State Command, Mr. Akinwande Aboluwoye, said over 20,000 litres of stolen fuel were recovered from the vandals.

UNILAG Big Girl Kidnapped, Raped By 3 Friends

Miss Tolulope Titiloye, a 22-year-old female student of the University of Lagos, who was kidnapped and raped by three friends, who later posted her nude photos on the social media, is now in court to get justice.

Three friends – Bashorun Babajide, Aje Olumayowa, and Babajide Ajayi – had molested her, took photos of her without clothes and threatened to share the photos if she exposed them. Tolulope had kept quiet about the sad incident but trouble started when her family members saw her nude photos on the internet.

Within few days of the upload, the nude photographs went viral on social media, exposing Tolulope to ridicule and shame.

Female Photojournalist Gang-Raped in Mumbai

A female photo journalist working on an assignment to capture photos of old buildings in Mumbai was raped by five men on Thursday evening in an abandoned textile mill.

According to reports, Police arrested five men from the area in connection with the gang-rape, but the Mumbai commissioner, Satya Pal Singh, refused to give any details about those arrested, saying it was "a sensitive case".

"The woman, who is around 22 years old, had gone inside the Shakti Mills compound at about 6pm along with a young man who was carrying the cameras," Singh said. "Five men who were inside the derelict textile mill first accused the woman's companion of being wanted for a murder, tied him up with a belt, then took the woman aside and took turns raping her."

This has provoked national outrage similar to the aftermath of last year's fatal gang-rape of a physiotherapist in Delhi.

Meanwhile, the victim was taken to the Jaslok hospital after the attack, where doctors said her medical condition was stable.

Cameroonian lady arrested for buying a baby for ₦1.2 million

A middle-aged woman believed to be from Cameroon, Evelyn Atemkeng, was arrested yesterday in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, by men of the Nigeria Immigration Service for allegedly buying a three day old baby at the cost of ₦1.2 million.

Mrs Atemkeng accompanied by her aged mother, Anastasia Fambong, was said to have bought the baby boy from a matron of a clinic in Delta State.

Commander of the Cross River State Command, Mr Samuel Ichoi, said his men accosted the lady while she was boarding a ship to Cameroon.

He said: “The lady came from Cameron to Nigeria on Friday without any sign of pregnancy but she was found to be carrying a baby and when my men examined her there are no signs that she just gave birth. So, she and the baby were apprehended.”

Mrs Atemkeng told reporters she gave birth to the baby and that the money she paid into the account of the matron was for delivery and herbs she gave to her to aid delivery.

“She (matron) said my breast would start producing milk in three weeks but for now the baby is taking baby food,” Atemkeng said.

Police Nab Men Who Chopped Off NYSC Member’s Hand

The police in Bayelsa State have arrested two men, who chopped off the hand of a female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Miss Folakemi Akinbode, in Yenagoa.

The two men were arrested, while attempting to sell her blackberry phone, which was inside her bag when she was attacked. The incident happened in Abuah in Yenagoa local government area.

The men, identified as Ebi Jatto and Weriye Aluwa, were arrested on Wednesday, at the neighbouring Koroama community by youths of the area, who were aware of the attack on the lady.

The suspicion of the youths of Koroama was aroused as they were aware that the boys, who were known, could not afford such a phone they were attempting to sell.

Akinbode was attacked and her hand severed by the boys, who also made away with her hand bag.

Hong Kong seizes ivory, rhino horns worth £3.4m in container from Nigeria [PHOTOS]

I don’t gerrit, ivory, rhino horns and leopard skins from Nigeria? Well, this is how the story was reported.

Customs officials in Hong Kong have seized a shipment of illegal ivory, rhino horns and leopard skins worth £3.4 million.

It is Hong Kong's second big bust of endangered species products in a month and the latest in a string of seizures over the past year.

A government statement said 1,120 ivory tusks, 13 rhino horns and five pieces of leopard skin were confiscated at Hong Kong's port.

The 2.2-tonne haul was found hidden in a container declared as wood from Nigeria.

Last month, more than two tonnes of elephant tusks worth an estimated £1.46 million were confiscated by customs officials, who said it was the city's biggest ivory seizure since 2010.

EVIL: Man Beheads Son To Buy Cows [PHOTO]

Adamawa state Police Command has on Tuesday paraded a 24 year old man Bappa Alti of Gamji Village, in Gombi local Government Area of Adamawa state for beheading his 5year old son Buba Bappah for the sum of one Million Naira which he intends to use in purchasing cows.

The command’s spokesman  D. S. P Muhammad Ibrahim said the arrest of Alti, was sequel to a complaint that the suspect has earlier in the day took the boy to his farm only to return without him and could not give a convincing explanation about the boy's whereabouts.

D. S. P Ibrahim explained that, following the failure of Alti to convince the grandfather of the deceased when he enquired about the whereabouts of his grandson sparked suspicious about the motives of Alti which led to the involvement of the Police in the matter.

According to the PPRO, following the dissatisfaction of the grandfather by the explanation of his son, he mobilized a search team which on arriving the farm, found the mutilated body of the deceased child.

Cultists Chop Off Corps Member's Hand in Bayelsa

A female corps member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in the Obuah community in Yenagoa local government area of Bayelsa State, Miss. Folakemi Akinbode was on Monday night attacked by suspected cultists who chopped off right hand.

Miss Oluwakemi Akinbode, a 26-year- old Ondo State indigene is Batch A Corps member and graduate of Nursing from the Madonna University, Elele in Rivers State, was attacked at about 8:30pm, while returning to the Corps Lodge near the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobori, near Yenagoa.

According to a corps member, who gave his name simply as Fred, told Leadership that the attacked corps member was serving at the university teaching hospital for primary assignment.

According to Fred, the attack was a shock to many other corps members in the area.

The attacked Corps member is presently receiving treatment at the Teaching Hospital.

Confirming the incident, the Paramount Ruler of the Community, the Ibolou XI of Obunagha, H.R.H Godsgive Apoh, condemned the incident and summoned an emergency meeting of the Youth Vigilante Association to investigate and apprehend those involved in the attack.

When contacted on the development, the state police public relations officer, Mr Alex Akhigbe said though no arrest had been made, operatives had been deployed to track down the attackers.

Source: Leadership

Police Search Women's Vaginas on Side of the Road [VIDEO]

A pair of videos posted online show police probing the genitals and anal regions of three women they claim to suspect of possessing marijuana. In one video, a woman is seen bent over and grimacing as an off camera police officer conducts the search. Shortly before this search, a male officer explains to the woman that he is calling a female officer over "because I ain't about to get up close and personal with your woman areas."

The Texas police officers involved have been fired and charged for sexual assault.

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Police arrest 3 for hurriedly burying an 18 year old boy

Police in Ondo State have arrested three persons for hurriedly burying an 18 year old boy, Sanmi Kehinde who allegedly shot himself dead with his father’s gun.

Kehinde reportedly shot himself last Wednesday with his father’s dane gun at Oriokuta community in Akoko South East council area of Ondo State.

The Police image maker in the state, Wole Ogodo said the family of the deceased did not make any formal report to the police before they hurriedly buried him.

Ogodo said detectives in the state police have commenced investigation to unravel the circumstance that could lead to the death of the teenager.

He said the report of the autopsy is still being awaited by the police.

According to him:  “Immediately the incident happened neither the family nor the neighbours reported the case to the police before they went ahead to bury the deceased, that is why the police arrested some people on the incident.