Court grants man N50,000 bail for allegedly abducting 17-year-old girlfriend

An Abule Egba Magistrates' Court in Lagos on Friday granted bail in the sum of N50,000 to one Ekene Iyadi who abducted a 17-year-old girl.

The magistrate, Mrs Adenike Shonubi, granted the accused bail with a surety in like sum after he pleaded not guilty to the charge.

Shonubi , then, adjourned the case till April 15 for further hearing.

The accused, 25, a motor cycle rider, who lives at 8, Railway Lane, Jafa Bus Stop, Agbado, a suburb of Lagos is facing a one-count charge of abduction.

Man cuts off girlfriend’s breast, dumps her body in pit toilet

The pit toilet where the girlfriend's corpse was found

A  middle-aged man simply identified as Soji has been reported to have dump the corpse of his girlfriend in a pit toilet after she was killed in Oshogbo.

Residents of Balogun area of Osogbo were shocked when detectives from Osun State Police Command exhumed the decomposing remains of the 19-year-old girl, Bilikisu from a pit toilet at Abaja compound of the town.

It was gathered that Soji allegedly dumped the corpse in the pit toilet after she was killed.

Man rapes girlfriend to death in Abeokuta

An Abeokuta, Ogun State Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered the detention of one Michael Oyejide, 24, in the Ibara prison for allegedly raping his 18-year-old girlfriend to death.

The Magistrate, Martins Akinyemi, ordered that the accused be remanded in the prison pending legal advice from the state Director of Public Prosecution.

 Oyejide, who resides at Ijeja, in Abeokuta, is facing a three-count charge of conspiracy, rape and murder.

NYSC member commits suicide over girlfriend

The body of a 26-year-old National Youth Service Corp, NYSC, member, identified as Ernest, was, Wednesday, recovered from his one room apartment after he reportedly took a poisonous substance.

Reports indicated that the young man, who was in love with a fellow NYSC member, Chioma Okewuru, went berserk when the girl came back from her village over the weekend with a ring from a man she had promised to marry.

Ernest, who is from Edo State and a graduate of the University of Benin, was posted to Cross River State in October, where he met and fell in love with Chioma, and both were serving in Redemption Secondary School, Ofombogha 1 in Obubra Local Government Area of Cross Rivers State.