Crime
Ritual killers of LASU student in 2019 get death sentence
A high court sitting in Osun state has sentenced Segun Philip, a self-proclaimed prophet, and Owolabi Adeeko, a graduate of Lagos State University (LASU), to death over the murder of Favour Daley-Oladele.
BACKGROUND
Daley-Oladele, a final-year student of LASU, was killed at Ikoyi-Ile, Osun, in 2019.
Owolabi had confessed that he conspired with Philip to murder the deceased, who was his girlfriend, for money rituals.
Part of the concoction produced with the student’s mutilated body was also given to Bola Adeeko, Owolabi’s mother, for “spiritual cleansing”
“After I lodged her in a guest house, I took her to a house which I claimed to be my uncle’s house, knowing fully well that the place was a ritualists den,” he had said.
“I smashed a pestle on her head and she collapsed. The prophet thereafter used a knife and cutlass to dismember her body which was divided into three parts breasts, head and legs with other vital parts.
“We buried the remaining part of her body beside Prophet Philip’s Church called ‘Solution Salvation Chapel’, while some vital parts was given to my mother to eat for spiritual cleansing.”
The trio were first arraigned for conspiracy and murder before a magistrate court in Apomu in 2020. They were later re-arraigned for murder and conspiracy in 2021 before a high court in Ikire.
DEATH SENTENCE
At the court session on Monday, Adeshina Olaniyan, counsel to the defendants, pleaded for leniency.
But in her ruling, Christiana Obadina, the presiding judge, sentenced the prophet and Owolabi to death by hanging for murder and 14 years imprisonment for conspiracy.
The judge also sentenced Owolabi’s mother to two years in jail for eating human flesh.
Obadina said the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.
Crime
NDLEA arrests returning businessman for smuggling cocaine
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a businessman identified as an ‘I Just Got Back’ returnee for attempting to smuggle cocaine into the country.
Femi Babafemi, the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, shared videos of the seized contraband on X.com on Sunday.
The suspect, who had just returned from a foreign trip, initially raised suspicion due to his nervous demeanour.
NDLEA officials subjected him to a routine screening, during which wraps of cocaine began to fall from his body.
The statement said: “Narco-trend update: The moment #ndlea_nigeria officers intercepted an ‘I Just Got Back’ businessman, screened him, and wraps of cocaine began to ‘rain’ from his body. Who will tell them that NDLEA will always get them no matter the mode of concealment?”
Click the link below to watch the video:
Crime
Court jails ex-IMF chief Rodrigo Rato for tax fraud, corruption
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Judges found Rato who was also a former economy minister in Spain, guilty of “three offences against the treasury, one offence of money laundering and one offence of corruption between individuals,” the court announced in a statement.
Crime
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Mathias Pogba will be able to serve his one-year sentence with an electronic bracelet rather than behind bars.
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