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Peter Dada, Akure
An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure, the state capital, has sentenced one Kolawole Apoti to life imprisonment for raping four teenagers.
One of the victims was identified as the convict’s niece, a secondary school pupil, said to have invited other teenage girls to his house where he forcefully had sex with them and gave each of them N100.
The convict had reportedly been having sex with his niece for a long time before she started introducing her friends to the incestuous uncle.
It was gathered that Kolawole was exposed when the victims were fighting over the money he gave them and their school principal got wind of the altercation.
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Olufemi Olaniyi, Ibadan
Fresh crisis appears to be brewing in the Ibarapaland area of Oyo State, following the return of Fulani herdsmen to the area and the alleged destruction of farms in the area.
Fulani herdsmen had, in January, migrated out of Igangan and other communities in Ibarapa, Oyo State, following the eviction notice given to Seriki Fulani of Igangan, Salihu Abdukadir, by Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Igboho.
Farmers in Igangan, however, told
Saturday PUNCH on Friday that the herdsmen had not only started returning to the area but that they had allegedly resumed destruction of farms and threatened to attack farmers who resisted them.
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JOHN CHARLES
Suspected Fulani herdsmen on Friday shot and killed a member of livestock guards in Makurdi, Benue State capital.
Livestock guards in conjunction with agro rangers are responsible for the implementation of the state anti-open grazing law.
The incident, according to a source, happened around 6pm at Mballah Council Ward in Makurdi.
Narrating how the attack was carried out, the Commander of livestock guards, Linus Zaki, said the suspects laid in ambush for the guards who were on patrol.
Zaki said, “The armed men came in through some areas where they knew troops were not stationed. We (livestock guards) were coming on motorcycles and suddenly heard gunshots from both sides of the road. They succeeded in killing one of our guards and injured one other.”
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Olufemi Olaniyi, Ibadan
Residents of Igangan in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State said some armed Fulani herdsmen on Friday attacked four farmers on their way back home.
The residents said two of the victims allegedly hacked by the herdsmen died. They said the attackers ripped the skull of one of the victims identified as Seun with machetes.
Our correspondent gathered that the attack allegedly happened after a popular figure, Sunday Igboho, had gone to Igangan earlier on Friday to warn the Seriki Fulani, Saliu Kadri, who he accused of being behind the atrocities committed in the area.