PPRO SAMUEL JINADU

Polytechnic student charged for alleged cultism.

A Lagos State Polytechnic LASPOTEC student, Kehinde Adewole was on Monday arraigned at an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court for alleged involvement in cultism.
The 23-year-old accused, a National Diploma II student of Banking and Finance is facing a two-count charge of felony and belonging to an unlawful secret society.
The Prosecutor, Insp Lucky Ojogo told the court that the accused was arrested in May 2011, at Alakuko area of Lagos while holding a secret cult meeting with others at large.
Ojogo alleged that the accused was in a meeting of the Eye Confraternity.
The prosecutor said the offence was contrary to section 62 and punishable under Section 64 of the Criminal Code, Cap C17, Vol II, Laws of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2004.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Senior Magistrate A O Olatunji granted the accused bail in the sum of N100, 000 with two sureties.
Olatunji ordered that the sureties pay N50, 000 each aside the bail bond.
He adjourned the case till July 22 for further hearing. ...........................................................................................................
2 arraigned for allegedly chopping off landlord’s finger.

Two businessmen, Chijioke Williams ,30, and Abuchi Agunta ,24, were on Monday arraigned for allegedly chopping off their landlord’s finger with a sharp object.
The accused persons are facing trial on a two-count charge of conspiracy and assault occasioning harm.
The prosecutor, Insp. Julius Oyakhilome, said the accused who are tenants of Timothy Olawoyin on March 18 at Westwood Estate, Ajah, allegedly attacked him with dangerous weapons during a disagreement.
He said the accused allegedly attacked an unsuspecting Olawoyin at the midnight, knocked him unconscious and chopped off one of his right hand fingers.
Oyakhilome said the offence contravened Sections 355 and 516 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State, 2003.
The accused pleaded not guilty to the charge and were granted bail in the sum of N200,000 each, with two sureties in like sum.
The Magistrate, F.O Aigbokhaevbo, adjourned the case till July 4 for further hearing. .......................................................................................................................
Court dissolves 14-year-old marriage over battering.

A Mushin Grade “A” Customary Court in Lagos on Monday dissolved a 14-year-old marriage on grounds of constant wife battering.
The President of the court, Abayomi Ipaye, said the court dissolved the marriage because it could not be sustained.
The estranged wife, Saidat Akande, had on March 7 filed a suit seeking the dissolution of the marriage, citing battering.
The husband, Olushola Akande, urged the court not sever the relationship.
Ipaye directed Akande to pay his former wife N15,000 monthly for the upkeep of the three children of the marriage pending the family court’s decision on the matter.
He, however, referred the custody of the children of between ages six and 12 years to the family court for adjudication.
Ipaye reprimanded Akande for delaying the judgment by failing to attend court sessions on the excuse that he was attending job interviews.
Sadiat had told the court that he packed out of their matrimonial home since August 2010 following ceaseless battering...
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