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Police arrest FRSC boss for allegedly killing colleague

June 9, 2019 12:15 am

Unit Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Onitsha, Anambra State, Paulinus Akpotobo, and another senior officer have been arrested by the Onitsha Police Area Command for allegedly strangling a colleague, Emeka Ojei, to death.

The incident reportedly took place on Thursday evening.Sources close to FRSC said trouble started when the deceased threatened to write a petition of corrupt practice against one of the officers to FRSC zonal headquarters in Benin City, Edo State, an action that did not go down well with the affected officer.

The Guardian gathered

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Court condemns Houseboy to death for killing boss

May 21, 2019 10:45 pm

A Lagos High Court in Igbosere yesterday sentenced a 25-year-old houseboy, Leudjou Koyemen Joel (aka William Smith) to death by hanging for killing his employer.

He murdered Dayo Enioluwa Adeleke, the daughter of the late Brig.-Gen. Adekola Alfred Adeleke, on December 20, 2016.

Justice Adedayo Akintoye convicted Joel, after a nearly two-year trial which followed his not guilty plea to a one-count charge of murder.

The defendant, a refugee from Cameroon, had testified that Adeleke mistakenly stabbed herself after she fell while pursuing him with a kitchen knife.

Justice Akintoye held: “All the evidence points to the defendant. I find …

Cook jailed 14 years for killing brother over meat theft

April 16, 2019 12:46 am

For pleading guilty to beating her eight-year-old brother to death over theft of meat from a pot of soup, Justice Adedayo Akintoye of a Lagos High Court, Igbosere yesterday sentenced a cook, James Janet, to 14 years imprisonment.Janet beat her brother, Saviour Effiong James, to death for stealing meat at their residence in Ilupeju area at about 8:00p.m. on August 10, 2009.

Following Janet’s plea of guilty to an amended charge of manslaughter brought against her by the Lagos State government, the trial judge, Justice Akintoye, convicted and sentenced her to 14 years imprisonment. The judge said the 14 years …

Dasuki, arms deal, Boko Haram killing of Nigerian soldiers

March 16, 2019 6:38 pm

By Odumodu Gbulagi

When the current APC government came to power, they made Nigerians to understand that the reason why Boko Haram was still wreaking havoc was because Colonel Sambo Dasuki rtd. misappropriated the 2.1 billion dollars meant to procure arms for the military to fight Boko Haram terrorists.

A lot of people who allegedly got the Dasuki largesse are still being tried by the EFCC, and other anti graft agencies, yet non of them have been found guilty, or has the government been able to secure their conviction.

Though no court of law has convicted Dasuki, he is still …

Unrest in Rivers as Wike petitions ICC, others over killing

February 27, 2019 1:26 am

There was a pandemonium yesterday at the headquarters of the 6 Division of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt following the parading of some officials of the Rivers government for alleged financial inducement during the presidential and federal legislative elections in the state.
Governor Nyesom Wike said the allegation to induce army officers was a “diversionary ploy from the wanton killings committed last Saturday.”