Father Apprehended For Impregnating His Own Daughter.

A 45-year-old man, Julius Ochim, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly impregnating his own daughter, who eventually gave birth to a baby girl.

The Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said: ”The man was arrested following a complaint by his daughter who reported at Shagamu Police Division that her father has been having carnal knowledge of her since she was 9, after the death of her mother in 2009.”

Oyeyemi added that, consequently, the lady reportedly got pregnant for the suspect and gave birth to a baby girl who is now three years old. On why she did not report after many years, the lady reportedly told the police that her father ”used to threaten her with cultural implication of refusing him to sleep with her.”

He said on interrogation, the suspect confessed to the crime but blamed it all on the devil’s handwork. He reportedly confessed that he had been sleeping with the young woman since the demise of his wife.

The police spokesman added that the suspect disclosed that he started having ‘problems’ with the victim when she started going out with “another person whom she said she want to get married to”.

He confessed that the he was trying to prevent the girl from getting married so as to continue having his way with her.

SARS Operatives Wrongly Torture Taxify Driver Over Misplaced Bag.

Taxify driver, John Otuechere, who was wrongly accused by his passenger of stealing her bag and eventually tortured by the SARS operatives she reported to, has filed for charges over violation of his human rights. The driver added that he was arrested, detained and tortured on the order of one Mrs Alice Isah.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Isah who came back into the country from training in Dubai on Sunday, July 15, had called the Taxify driver to pick her up from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport and drop her off at her residence on Lekki Gardens Estate, Lagos State. Otuechere said while they were on the way, his car developed a fault which prompted him to park to examine the vehicle.

He said: “We were on the Third Mainland Bridge when my car started making an unusual sound. I did not stop because it was dangerous; so I managed it until we left the bridge. “I eventually parked beside a RRS Patrol vehicle to examine the car.

While examining the car, a guy crossed over from the other side of the road to assist me. I don’t know him, but he said he was a mechanic, and we discovered that only one nut was left holding the tyre to the bolts on the driver side.

“The woman (Isah) at this point got down from the car to observe what was going on. She saw that we had to unscrew one nut from the other tyres to fasten the tyre on the driver side to the vehichle. I gave the man N100 and he crossed back to the other side of the road before we moved on.”

The 37-year-old driver said they had no other stopover till they got to Isah’s residence where they brought down her luggage. He said the passenger, at this point, discovered that one of her bags had gone missing. Otuechere said he suggested taking her back to the airport to check whether she forgot the bag, adding that instead, Isah accused him of conniving with the mechanic to steal her bag.

He said:

“I told her that I would take her to the airport and back for free, but she insisted that she personally put the bag in the boot of my car.

“She held me and started slapping me, calling me a thief.  One of her neighbours and the estate’s chief security officer accompanied her, and I was taken to the Ogombo Police Station.

“The second day, when the policeman who investigated the case suggested that we searched for the bag at my house and the airport, she said he was supporting me and she petitioned the state police command and the case was transferred  to Ikeja.

“Immediately I got to SARS in Ikeja, a policeman, identified as Omoleme, hit me many times with an iron bar to make me confess in the presence of the woman. He said he would kill me and nothing would happen. I was in tears because of the pain; my blood was all over the floor and I was told to pull off my dress and start cleaning it.

“I was taken to the man in charge of SARS; when I tried to explain to him that I was innocent, he ordered his men to hang me because I was not saying the truth.

“SARS cell is a graphic picture of hell; I saw over 70 people inside one room and immediately I entered, I was welcomed with several blows, slaps and kicks.”

The Abia State indigene said it took the intervention of his lawyer before the SARS operatives agreed to search for the bag at the airport.

He added that the bag was eventually found and recovered at the airport where the woman forgot it.

Otuechere, whose two fingers had been broken during the torture, said he wanted justice and compensation for being humiliated and tortured for a crime he did not commit.

He said: “When my lawyer saw my condition, she was annoyed with the officers for torturing me without investigation. She insisted that they should search for the bag at the airport; so a policeman went with my sister. I was told that the bag was found at the airport.

“When they returned, I was released. The woman has not called to apologise; even the officers of SARS did not apologise for torturing me without investigation. I want justice, I demand a written apology from F-SARS and Mrs Alice Isah for wrongful accusation, detention and torture.

“I also demand ₦10M compensation for my inability to provide for my family because of the torture. Otuechere’s sister, Chika, said Isah was not remorseful of what she did to her brother after they recovered the bag at the airport.

Groom And Thirteen Family Members Die In Car Crash En-route Wedding Party.

Fourteen members of the same family were killed in a car crash in central Vietnam Monday en route to a wedding party, including the groom who died instantly when their van hit a container truck, police said.

Road accidents are the leading cause of death in Vietnam, where traffic laws are loosely obeyed and road infrastructure is patchy.

The victims of Monday’s car crash in Quang Nam were members of an extended family, including the groom, who were heading to the bride’s family home in a neighbouring province, a police officer told AFP.

Their 16-seater van collided with a container truck at around 2:30 am (1930 GMT Sunday), killing 13 people instantly. Another died later in hospital.

All victims’ bodies were brought back to their home for burial. We are treating some of the injured in a local hospital,” the policeman said, requesting anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the press.

Local authorities said Monday they were investigating the cause of the deadly crash.

Sixty Nine Year Old Woman Murders Her Husband For Constantly Watching Porn.

An Arkansas woman has been arrested and charged with capital murder after she admitted to fatally shooting her husband because he repeatedly purchased pornographic videos through their cable provider.

According to a police statement, Patricia Hill, 69, called 911 on Saturday afternoon around 3pm in Jefferson County to report that she had shot her husband Frank Hill, 65.

Responding deputies reportedly found Patricia in the backyard and immediately detained her. Frank’s body was found on the floor, having suffered at least two gunshot wounds to the leg and head. Paramedics transported Frank to the hospital where he was pronounced dead around 3.15pm.

Patricia was taken into custody, where she revealed that she and Frank had gotten into a disagreement when she noticed he had purchased pornographic videos through their cable provider. According to her, she cancelled that order but later discovered Frank had placed it again.

‘Mrs Hill stated that she entered the shed and asked her husband to leave but he refused. Mrs Hill admitted that she then returned inside the residence, where she armed herself with a .22 caliber pistol. ‘She went back to the shed a short time later, where she entered and shot her husband twice, striking him once in the leg and once in the head.

‘Immediately following the shooting, Mrs Hill stated that she returned inside the residence, where she returned the weapon and called 911 to report the shooting.’ Hill is currently being held without bail Saturday at the Jefferson County jail.

Dismissed US Soldier Arrested For Defrauding Nigerian Visa Seekers.

Garrick Slacks, a dismissed US soldier, has been arrested by operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad for allegedly defrauding Nigerians with fake promises to secure visas and other travelling documents to US in Imo State.

According to Punchng, the suspect admitted that he was dismissed from the US military in 2015 over his involvement in cocaine peddling. It was gathered that two pairs of military uniform, a cash of over ₦2M, military fez cap, jungle boot, fake military identity card, fake driving licence and a car, which he used in making his fraud look real were recovered from him.

A police source said: “His targets are mostly women. He would promise them marriage and tell them that he had the capacity to secure their visas and other travelling documents to America with his position as a colonel in the US Marine Army and as an American citizen.

He has confessed to the crime and the forensic investigation we have done using his fingerprints revealed that he is a wanted man in California and he only ran to Nigeria in February to continue his heinous crimes.

Just five days ago, he defrauded a young widow ₦500,000 with a fake promise that he would secure stay visa for the widow’s three children. He was about running away from Owerri before we tracked him.

Could you imagine that the lady we used in tracking him, he had promised to marry her on meeting her for the first time this afternoon (Saturday). All the exhibits we recovered from him are fake.

The military identities which he used to make his fraudulent activities look genuine. He was even beating security men to this game until we nabbed him.”

On his own part, Slacks, who said he was sorry for his actions and was ready to make amends if given the opportunity, added that he came into the country in February and was ready to refund one of his victims, the widow, her money.

Medical Practitioners Arrested As Failed Abortion Kills Patient.

A medical doctor, Olawale Raji, has been arrested alongside a nurse, Funmilayo Olusegun, for allegedly causing the death of a pregnant woman, through abortion.

The Ogun State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed this to journalists on Sunday, said the suspects were arrested on July 26, following a complaint by a sister of the deceased.

“Police in Ogun state on the 26th of July arrested one Dr, Olawale Raji and a nurse Olusegun Funmilayo for carrying out an abortion that led to the death of one Aminat Iyanda Atisola. Their arrest followed a complaint from the the sister of the deceased one Bose Kazeem of no 6, ireakari St Atan ota,” Mr Oyeyemi said.

The police spokesman said Ms Kazeem reported that her deceased sister was two months pregnant and contracted the service of the two suspects who work in a private hospital for abortion.“She stated further that the suspects carried out the unlawful act right inside the house of the deceased,” Mr Oyeyemi stated.

He added that trouble started when the deceased started having complications shortly after the abortion. She was rushed to the Federal Medical Center Abeokuta for treatment but died on the way.

“On receiving the report, the DPO Onipanu Division SP Sangobiyi Johnson led his team of detectives to the scene where the two medical practitioners were promptly arrested,” he said.

Nigerian-American Bags Jail Time For $900K Email Scam.

meka Ndukwu, 46, a Nigerian-American based in Maryland, has been sentenced to four years in prison for engaging in business e-mail scheme and conspiring to launder more than $900,000 proceeds of scams.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in a statement, said Ndukwu tricked seven companies in the United States and abroad into wiring more than $900,000 into accounts controlled by various co-conspirators. “A co-defendant, Chuka Mbonu, 33, of Nigeria, remains at large,” the U.S. authorities said.

According to the FBI: “Ndukwu, a dual citizen of the United States and Nigeria, pleaded guilty in April 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to one count of money laundering conspiracy. “He was sentenced by the Honourable Timothy J. Kelly.

Following his prison term, he will be placed on three years of supervised release.

The judge also ordered Ndukwu to pay $791,870 in restitution to the companies. “Additionally, Judge Kelly ordered Ndukwu to forfeit a 2014 Mercedes-Benz GL450 and to pay a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $429,848, representing the share of the criminal proceeds that Ndukwu personally obtained”.

According to documents filed at the time of the plea, Ndukwu participated in an ongoing conspiracy from 2013 through 2017 to receive and launder the proceeds of various cyber frauds, primarily arising from business e-mail (“BEC”) compromise schemes.

In a typical BEC scheme, a co-conspirator tricks a company into transferring large sums of money into accounts controlled by others participating in the scheme. Using fake e-mails, often containing forged sender addresses, co-conspirators impersonate someone connected to the victim company and deceive an employee of that company into wiring funds.

Soon after the wire transfers are completed, the co-conspirators drain the bank accounts and launder the criminal proceeds. “This particular conspiracy targeted at least seven companies in the United States and overseas, including victims in Texas, Illinois, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, India, Japan, and China.

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Slain Abuja Corper Angela Igwetu, Laid To Rest.

Yesterday morning was one of soberness and sorrow for the loved ones of Miss Angela Nkechi Igwetu, who was laid to rest weeks after she was gunned down by a trigger happy policeman.

The 23 year old Abuja deployed corper was returning from a hangout with two friends, when a police officer stationed at a checkpoint shot at their car, hitting her at the midriff.

To worsen her case, the director at the Garki general hospital where she was rushed to refused to begin treatment, asking for a police report despite the fact that she was brought in by the police, and demanding a ₦150,000 cash payment upfront before they would begin treatment.

They did begin treatment after over an hour of persuasion but it was too late, as Angela passed less than 30 minutes later, at about 3am.

The police officer was dismissed the following morning, arrested and detained.

The hospital after being called out for delaying her treatment, released a statement denying the claim, but following investigations, it was discovered that they indeed delayed treatment for well over an hour, refusing interbank/POS transfers, and insisting on ₦150,000 cash payment before they would begin.

The police officer and members of the hospital staff would be charged to court after investigations are concluded.

RIP Angela.

FG Approves 10-Year Validity Period For Travel Passports.

The Federal Government has approved a 10-year validity period for Nigerian passports.

This followed a presidential approval to change the face of the e-passport, 10 years after it was introduced in the country.

The Comptroller-General of Nigerian Immigration Service, Muhammed Babandede, added that the extended validity period would reduce the stress Nigerians went through every five years to renew their passports.

“One of the reforms he (President Buhari) has approved is that we would improve the quality, security of our passport booklets. Ten years after the enrolment of the e-passport system, we need to improve the security features.

You can’t keep documents for 10 years without seeing decreased values in them, so we are improving the security features which would raise the standards of the passports.

Though people will pay more, if they can pay more and get the booklets quickly, it’s good with improved security for 10 years validity. They would pay more but the document would be available, that’s good,” the CG explained.

Super Eagles And Wolves Goalkeeper Carl Ikeme Announces Retirement.

Wolverhampton wanderers goalkeeper Carl Ikeme, who was diagnosed with acute leukaemia in July 2017, has announced his retirement from football at the age of 32.

The Nigeria international has been with the Molineux club for his whole career, making more than 200 appearances.

In June, Ikeme said he was in “complete remission” after “a tough year and intense chemotherapy”.

His decision to retire has come after consulting medical experts and Ikeme told his team-mates on Tuesday.

In a statement, Wolves chairman Jeff Shi praised the goalkeeper’s strength of character in “what has been a very challenging time for him”.

“Carl is more than just a player in our eyes – he is our brother and an important part of our family,” said Shi.

Ikeme joined the West Midlands club – who won the Championship last season to earn promotion to the Premier League – as a 14-year-old.

He was a regular when Wolves won League One in 2014 and played 10 times for Nigeria, who honoured him at this summer’s World Cup by naming him as their 24th squad member.

The Super Eagles were knocked out at the group stage in Russia and before the tournament their coach Gernot Rohr said: “My biggest regret is the absence of Carl.”