The Pretoria Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a Nigerian national,
Onyeghani Ekene Dumkele to life imprisonment for the murder of a
multi-talented up-and-coming South African artiste, Shaun Douglas
Chabalala.
According to MSN, the 37-year-old Dumkele also bagged an additional 15 years imprisonment for aggravated robbery, including a 12-month suspended sentence on the condition that he be extradited to Nigeria after completing his concurrent sentence for murder and aggravated robbery.
The LP candidate, popularly known as GRV, said this in an exclusive interview with Politics Hub, a Vanguard online TV’s show on Tuesday.
A Nigerian lady living in France has said that she is in dire need of a life partner and ready to pay whoever is willing to be the partner.
In a viral video online, the woman seen on her knees saying age is no longer on her side. Also mixed reactions trailed her video as netizens shared their thoughts on her desperate appeal.
According to her, she has a house in Lagos, two hostels in Awada and an African shop in France where she is.
A presenter with Ibadan-based private radio station, Fresh FM Nigeria, popularly known as Baba Bintin, has died after he slumped on his way to the radio station for his programme on Saturday.
Baba Bintin’s death was announced during a radio programme by the station on Saturday.
“I’m finding it very difficult to believe this story that is breaking here,” popular presenter, Mayor Isaac Brown, said on the radio station.
The Katsina State Police Command has arrested two suspected trans-border car thieves, Ahmed Ahmed and Abubakar Adamu.A medical doctor, Mrs Sekinat
Oredoyin, on Wednesday narrated to a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja how a prophet, Olushola Akinsipe, allegedly defiled a 13-year-old visually impaired girl under the pretext of performing witchcraft deliverance for the victim.
Oredoyin, a public health physician at Yaba Local Council Development Area, was led in evidence by the state prosecutor, Mr Michael Adewoye.
The witness told the court that the survivor presented herself for a medical examination alongside her father on December 12, 2020.
According to her, the survivor narrated how the defendant, the pastor of Power of the Home Deliverance Ministry, allegedly had forceful penetration with her on five occasions.
She told Justice Hakeem Oshodi that the survivor and her father were referred from Owutu Police Station.
“The survivor is a visually impaired child and her father took her to the defendant for deliverance.
“She said the defendant gave her an unknown substance to drink after that, she could not remember anything but she was able to narrate to her father after he discovered a brownish discharge under her pants and interrogated her,” she said.
The witness further told the court that the survivor had hyper-pigmentation around her face and some marks on her waist which the survivor told her were injuries sustained during deliverance.
She added, “The survivor said the defendant beat her with banana leaves during deliverance and also scrubbed her back with salt. The medical examination findings were in keeping with forceful vagina penetration.
“The blood samples showed pregnancy test was negative but because of the sour on her body, I directed her to Domestic Sexual Violence Agency for counselling.
“At that time, she was depressed as she believed that she was the one that killed her mother and she was made to believe that her father was not progressing because of her.”
The prophet is facing a three-count of defilement, indecent treatment of a child and trial by ordeal.
According to the prosecution, the offences committed contravened Sections 128(b), 135, and 137 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
Justice Oshodi adjourned the case till April 17 for the continuation of trial.
An Ikeja Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ogba, Lagos State, on Wednesday, remanded a teenager, Tosin Oloyede, for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl during the presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.
