Photo of groom who died alongside five relatives after traditional wedding in Enugu

The wife, sister and mother of a groom who died alongside five others in Enugu State, are among eight victims in the hospital.

The groom, Obinna Dieke and five relatives died on Saturday, August 27, at Eka Utara, Adani community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of the state after his traditional wedding.

The Makurdi, Benue State based businessman, and his relatives returned from the ceremony held in the bride’s home in Obollor-Eke, Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State on Friday, August 26, and continued with the celebration when they returned to Adani.

The following morning, they were all found unconscious in a room with foamy discharge from their mouths.

Sources in the community suspect that the victims died of carbon dioxide inhaled from a power generator, which was brought onto the veranda of a house where the victims stayed while it was raining after they returned from the wedding ceremony.

Speaking to BBC Pidgin, Chinedu Dieke, the younger brother of the groom, said that their in-law, Joseph Ogbonna, and his two sons, Chijindu, and Obinna also died in the tragic incident.

Chinedu said his late brother’s bride, Nebechi, his sister, Goodness and mother of Chijindu and Obinna, are among those receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital in the community.

He also said their mother (groom’s mother) is hospitalised but responding to treatment.

Nigerian photographer reveals a groom had threesome on his wedding day and the ladies later came to the ceremony

Some Nigerian photographers have shared their experiences with grooms on wedding day.

They disclosed this during a question and answer session with popular wedding photographer, Henry Orji, on Instagram. According to one of the photographers, a groom engaged in threesome on the morning of his wedding.

“I remember one time groom was having a threesome in the morning before dressup so had to wait for him to finish before we started shooting. Also the babes from the threesome came to the wedding later.”

Twitter users react after clergywoman, Nike Adeyemi, tweeted ”Your spouse is not your source, God is”

Twitter users are sharing their thoughts after clergywoman, Nike Adeyemi, via her Twitter handle, shared a message to couples.

In her tweet, Ms Adeyemi who is married to Pastor Sam Adeyemi, Senior Pastor of Daystar Church, wrote;

”Your spouse is not your source, God is!”

Her Tweet kickstarted a debate as some people agreed with her, while others were of the opinion that couples should always see themselves as their ”source.”

Police arrests couple for alleged N52m fraud in Lagos

Operatives of Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU) ,Ikoyi, Lagos, have arrested one George Ewere and his wife for alleged N52 million fraud.

The spokesman for the PSFU, SP Eyitayo Johnson, said in a statement on Monday that the suspects were arrested for conspiracy, cyber fraud/business email compromise, criminal conversion and stealing.

He said the arrest of the couple followed a petition addressed to the Commissioner of Police, PSFU by a law firm, Athan Ogbulie & Co., alleging diversion of the sum through Inter-Bank wire transfer of the funds.

The statement read: “The suspect and members of the syndicate targeted and compromised the email accounts of businesses that frequently make wire payments and waited for the right time to substitute the original account that should receive the money.

According to the suspect, the hack which happened in February 2022 was achieved by spoofing on the victim company’s email account/website.

Which makes it possible to carry out slight variations to the legitimate email address of the company in order to fool the victim into thinking the fake accounts are authentic.

“Spear phishing emails were also sent to the company to gain access to company accounts, calendars and data.”

Johnson said some of the funds which were diverted into five different banks had been recovered.

“Some of money which was diverted into accounts belonging to the suspect, his wife and daughter has been recovered as exhibit.

“While effort is on to locate the rest of the funds and other members of the syndicate.

“Part of the money was also discovered to have been withdrawn via Point-of-Sale (POS)and Automated Teller Machine (ATM) at different locations.

Couple jailed 40 years each for N53m fraud

A couple, Ebiesuwa Abayomi Fredrick and his wife, Tinuola Idayat Oyegunle, was on Monday sentenced to 40 years imprisonment each by Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State.

They were found guilty on all four counts of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence brought against them by the Ibadan Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)

The couple, in what was regarded as a classic advance fee fraud scheme, fleeced one Dunni Olateru Olagbegi N53,713,260.00 in cash and bank transfer through a spiritual cleansing gambit in order to avoid calamitous consequence of mysterious sudden death having heard conversation by a syndicate about a Ghana- Must –Go bag stuffed with United States Dollar bills in the boot of a car. She was also tricked into bringing funds to cleanse the supposed USD bills.

The victim had sometimes in May 2013, boarded a taxi cab with three other passengers who, unknown to her, were members of a syndicate of fraudsters. As soon as she entered the vehicle, she heard the three other supposed passengers arguing about a Ghana-Must-Go bag filled with US Dollars in the boot of the car.

Moments later, one of the syndicate member told her that she must be cleansed to avert sudden and mysterious death having heard their discussion. She was taken to an unknown destination, where she subsequently started giving the defendants, and the other members of the syndicate (at large) various sums in cash and bank payment totaling N53,713,260.00 to buy instruments for the cleansing of United States Dollar notes, which she allegedly sourced from the sale of her properties in both Ibadan and Lagos.

According to a statement made available by Head, media and publicity of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren, in the course of investigation, It was discovered that over N9m was paid into the second defendant, Tinuola Idayat Oyegunle’s account domiciled in one of the third generation banks; apart from other funds traced to the first defendant, Ebiesuwa Abayomi Fredrick’s account.

It was also discovered that the first defendant built Victoria East Park Hotel & Suite located at Igbogbo, Ikorodu, Lagos State from the proceeds of the crime.

In his judgment, Justice Abdulmalik found the couple guilty of the four-count charge and sentenced both of them to 10 years imprisonment on each of the four counts. However, while Ebiesuwa’s prison term takes effect from June 19, 2017 when he was arrested, Tinuola’s time in the Custodial Centre will start counting from May 26, 2017 when she was arrested.

The Judge also ordered that Victoria East Park Hotel & Suite, “be sold and the proceed, if not up to N53,713,260.00 be returned to the victim in the case and if it exceeds, the balance be paid into the Federal Government’s account”.

The sentences are to run concurrently.

One of the counts reads: “That you, Ebiesuwa Abayomi Fredrick, Tinuola Idayat Oyegunle and (others still at large) between 28 March,2014 at Ibadan, within the jurisdiction of this honorable court, with intent to defraud did obtain by false pretense, the sum of Nine Million, Three Hundred and Fifty-Two Thousand, One Hundred Naira (N9,352,100.00) only, from one Dunni Olateru-Olagbegi, under the pretense that the money was to be used to purchase instrument for the cleansing of United States of American Dollar notes, which pretense you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 1 (1) & (2) and punishable under section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2016.

COUPLE THAT POISONED FAMILY OF 5 TO DEATH IN ANAMBRA IN 2017 FINALLY CONFESS, READ THEIR CONFESSION AND HOW THEY WERE UNCOVERED

Nemesis has finally caught up with a man popularly addressed as “Nwa Ezeakwu” and his wife. They were paraded around Eke Osumenyi market in Nnewi south yesterday after making confessions of how they killed a family of 5 through poison and others. It is a wicked world!

The evil man and the wife summoned before the villagers where they made confessions.

Recall in 2017 when a man in Anambra state by name Mr. Chukwudi Asor lost his 3 children, wife, and mother to the cold hand of death in one day. It was said that his mother went to Eke Osumenyi market to buy dry powdered cassava (Aribo).

Chukwudi’s wife, after cooking cook, stirred the dry cassava powder for the family. She took from the soup and the swallow and ate with her 3 kids who returned from school. She kept for her husband who was a commercial motorcyclist (Okada rider) and her mother-in-law who was not at home at the said time.

Before evening, Chukwudi’s wife and children began to complain of severe stomach pain. In the process, they began to vomit blood. They were about to be rushed to the hospital. Or, they were rushed to the hospital. But they all died.

Chukwudi lost his wife and 3 children the same day. That very day in Osumenyi Community was like a war zone. There was no one people didn’t suspect.

The mother of Chukwudi was so heartbroken. His son was her only child. How could she be alive to buried her grandsons and a daughter who will stand beside her grave when she would be buried, she thought to her herself.

When everyone left the house, Chukwudi’s mother went to take the same cassava dry powder and stirred. She took from the same pot of soup and ate. She did that because she said she was the one who bought the dry cassava powder.

When she finished eating the same meal, she also complained of severe stomach pains and she died. The woman who sold the dry cassava powder became the prime suspect. The people went to the market where she sells and held her.

The poor woman collected a pot and made a fire in the market. There, she mixed all the powdered cassava she was selling and stir in the market. She ate it in big quantity in the presence of everyone in the market. But nothing happened to her.

Although she didn’t die, many people didn’t still believe she was innocent. People avoided buying from her until she ran out of customers and packed from the market.

It was a gruesome sight on that fateful day in Mr. Chukwudi Asor’s compound in 2017 as 5 graves were dug for five coffins. One by one, he saw his mother, wife, 2 sons, and a daughter laid in the grave. Their killers were rejoicing while he was mourning.

People like us who came to console him on that very day, pleaded with him to forge ahead. We suggested the soup could have been infested with wall gecko or centipede. We didn’t the killers were among us.

Until the 12th of January, 2020, Mr. Chukwudi’s kindred was sharing meat given to them during a traditional marriage. Two men were arguing and confronting themselves. One said to another; do you want your life to be like that of Chukwudi’s? Do you remember how miserable his life is now? In your case, I will snuff you into my nose like a snuff”. These were his exact words.

The man whom he was addressing grabbed him by the shirt. He was also lucky some people around heard the threats.

The men around the place held him too and began to ask him to explain what happened to Mr.  Chukwudi Asor. He was taken to his house from the spot. The people saw pots of charms, people’s photos, names, and belonging. There spiritual mirror, Uji, all manner of items tied with red clothes.

The people began to beat him and he began to confess. He confessed he poisoned the family of Mr. Chukwudi Asor with the help of his wife. He said his wife bought the poison in the market and sneaked into Mr. Chukwudi Asor’s family and mixed it in the powdered cassava.

The man and the wife were paraded in the markets. He was made to untie the destinies of the people in the community which he has made useless. After so many parading and cursing processes, he was banished from the Osumenyi community.

But the second drama ensued when they got to the boundaries of the communities where they were to be banished. The youths of the communities got the information beforehand and waited for them at the boundaries.

The evil man and the wife were marched to the Osumenyi/Amichi Boundary in Nnewi South, the youths of the Community rejected them and drove them back. They were marched out to the Ebenator/ Osumenyi Boundary in Nnewi South, he was equally rejected. Utuh Community too rejected them. Finally, they were driven into Imo State via Urasi/Lilu boundary.

This is the woman who sold the (Aribo) Powdered cassava who was accused. She was crying for being vindicated

The wife of the evil man. She confessed she bought the poison that killed Chukwudi’s family.

Soldier To Die By Firing Squad For Killing Newly Married Commander.

Maduabuchi had in July 2020 fired at least five shots at the late Ngorgi, while the latter was on the telephone with his newly married wife.

A court-martial sitting in Borno State has sentenced Trooper Azunna Maduabuchi to death by firing squad for killing his commander at 202 Battalion of the 21 Special Armoured Brigade in Bama, Lieutenant Babakaka Ngorgi.

Maduabuchi was on Tuesday sentenced to death by firing squad after he was found guilty at the court session held at the Maimalari Cantonment, Maiduguri.

This, according to the court, is in accordance with Section 106 of the Armed Forces Act.

Maduabuchi had in July 2020 fired at least five shots at the late Ngorgi, while the latter was on the telephone with his newly married wife.

He was said to have embarked on the shooting spree shortly after the troops returned from scanning the environment to wade off Boko Haram terrorists.

SaharaReporters gathered that the shooter aimed at the officer’s chest and released rapid rounds, stunning his colleagues who were present.

“We were all shocked because we did not expect that such a thing could happen at that moment. Soldiers and officers were in a sad mood to the extent that they wanted to go and kill the shooter in the guardroom but the Brigade Commander ordered that they should not kill the guy.

“Later, we tried to verify if there were issues between them but nothing personal was established. We only found out that the soldier’s bank account had been blocked for several months so he could not collect his office allowance and salary. He had been complaining that he was also not even given a pass so he could go out. We are in a sad mood already here,” a source said.