A 42-year-old suspected leader of a syndicate that specialised in defrauding unsuspecting persons has revealed that he posed as a prophet to swindle his victims, who are mostly miracle seekers.

ABUJA—FRUSTRATED over the inability of the Osun Police Command to investigate and prosecute the alleged Killers of a policeman, Sergeant Owai Owai,who was killed on September 25,2018, during the Osun State governorship election, the deceased family has petitioned the Inspector General of Police.

When relatives of a 21-year-old motorcycle operator, Mohammed Baba, who plies the Bida- Minna routes in Niger State, received a call from a supposed policeman, on October 11, 2018, informing them that their ward, who had been missing for 24 hours, had been arrested, for hitting a police van with his motorbike and he was being held at the A Police Division Bida, they didn’t know they were in for something more sinister.

It has been revealed that the Deputy Commissioner of Police, in-charge of Federal Special anti-Robbery Squad, FSARS, Bayelsa state, Kolawole Okunola, who was abducted by armed thugs during the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly election, was seriously manhandled and was at the point of being beheaded when help came.

An Ibadan-based pastor, Samuel Adedeji, yesterday, told a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to terminate the year-old union between him and his wife, Temiloluwa, over threat to his life.

ABUJA—The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, sentenced a former Air Vice Marshal, Tony Omenyi(retd), to 21 years imprisonment, following his complicity in money laundering.

Ado-Ekiti—A 52-year-old man, Dennis Agya Kiyeye, is currently cooling his heels at the facilities of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Ekiti State Command, over conspiracy and attempted murder of a 15-year-old girl (names withheld).

Makurdi—Two undergraduates, Hyginus Mbachii and Gambo Bulus alias Murphy, have been arrested by men of Benue State Police Command for the alleged murder of their friend for money ritual after defrauding the victim’s parents.

A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ on Thursday ordered that a 26-year-old hotel staff, Jeffery Ehizojie, who allegedly murdered the manager and owner of the hotel, be remanded in prison,pending legal advice from the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP).

Lagos—A 27-year-old driver, Nureni Olawale, with a new generation bank, who allegedly damaged a Mercedes Benz G-Wagon worth N26,700,000, was yesterday arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court.

A student of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, yesterday narrated before an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court how she was allegedly raped by eight fellow students and blackmailed with a video recording of the assault.

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday arraigned a 48-year-old man, Emeka Onwunyi at a FCT High Court in Nyanya charged with issuing N8 million dud cheque.

A Police Sergeant, Idoko Sunday, was Sunday night shot dead  by some political thugs who attempted to snatch  election results that were being conveyed to Ilaro,  in Ogun State.

Rivers State party agent for All Progressives Congress, APC, in Saturday’s presidential election, Samson Igerebara, yesterday, gave a graphic description of how militants killed, tied up, beheaded and paraded the community with the head of the party’s ex-official, Ignatius Fubara, shortly before Saturday’s election.

The defence counsel to a female lawyer, Udeme Otike-Odibi, accused of killing her husband and cutting his manhood, yesterday, filed an application for an order of court rejecting Udeme’s confessional statements.