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Suspense, Anxiety As DSS Personnel Stabs Estate Agent Over Electricity Bill

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August 23, 2023

Residents of Tinumola area of Dada Estate, Osogbo, Osun State were thrown into anxiety as a personnel of the Department of State Security, DSS, stabbed an estate agent identified as Dele Omosola over electricity bill.

It was gathered that an argument ensued between the agent and the DSS personnel, simply identified as Abiodun over the latter’s failure to pay electricity bill for the month of August.

The agent, Vanguard gathered, approached the personnel, who lived in a building he is managing on Tuesday night, inquiring about his failure to offset his electricity bill, the issue resulted into a tense argument with people demanding to know his means of livelihood.

The security personnel, who was said to be returning from work, allegedly walked away from the scene but the elderly agent insisted he must answer questions which led to a fight before Abiodun stabbed the victim in the thigh.

According to a resident, Morounkola Tosin, the agent had only asked why he had not paid his bill for August and the DSS guy responded that he had been paying before which resulted in an argument.

“But before anyone realised what was going on, the DSS guy went into his apartment took a jack-knife and stabbed the agent. We took the man to a hospital for treatment and reported the matter to the police. However, some DSS operatives took the suspect into custody and vowed not to release him to the police”.

Meanwhile, the victim said he only asked the suspect for electricity bill and rather than pay the money, he went in, brought a jack-knife and stabbed him.

“I have been asking him to pay up his bill for days, he promised to pay, but yesterday (Tuesday) when I asked him, rather to give me the money, he went in and came back with a jack-knife and stabbed me”, he said.

However, another neighbour within the apartment who pleaded anonymity disclosed that the said Abiodun tried to avoid the incident as he walked out of the agent, but the man insisted he must reveal where he works because other tenants were complaining about his late arrivals.

“Yes, the issue started with electricity bill, but genuinely, the agent was trying to extract information about his workplace, as the guy was too secretive and other tenants were suspecting him, hence, the situation escalated into a fight before the agent was stabbed”, the source added.

A DSS source also told Vanguard that it was a two-fighting incident and the personnel’s life was endangered by residents and the agent suspecting him of being an armed robber/cultist.

“I can confirm to you that the personnel is presently in detention for involving in public fight, however, the victims along with other tenants ganged up against him simply because they are oblivion of his job and his movement, thereby endangering his life at the moment, he was over-powered and needed to rescue himself from a powerful aggressor, hence, he decided to stab him on the thigh”, the source said.
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I Provide Four Square Meals A Day For My Wife, Man Tells Court

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December 6, 2025

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A commercial mototrcyclist, Malam Isma’il Abubakar, has told a Shari’a Court sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, that he provides ‘four square meals’ for his wife every day.

Isma’il made this known while responding to his wife, Zainab Saleh’s allegations that he does not provide food for her.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), she also alleged that her husband does not respect her parents.

She said she was done with their 10-year marriage and wanted divorce.

Isma’il, however, prayed the court to give him time to settle the dispute with his wife.

The judge, Malam Malam Anas Khalifa, asked Zainab to provide witnesses who can testify to her claims.

He ordered the couple to present their parents or guardians in court.

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Court Dissolves Marriage, Orders Man To Pay N30,000 Per Month For Kids’ Food

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December 6, 2025

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An Area Court at Centre-igboro, Ilorin, Kwara State, has dissolved the nine-year-old marriage between a woman, Bilikis Abake and her husband, Kehinde Bintin, over claims of domestic violence.

Delivering judgment, the presiding judge, Mr Idris Etsu, held that the respondent, had sent a letter to the court through the bailiff, releasing his wife.

Etsu, consequently, dissolved the marriage between both parties, but ordered the woman to observe three months iddah (waiting) period, before she could remarry again.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the court awarded custody of the two children of the marriage, who are eight-year-old and six-year-old, to their mother.

The court ordered the respondent to pay the sum of N30,000, as monthly maintenance fee.

He held that the father should be responsible for his children’s school fees, and should be allowed unrestricted access to his children, except at odd hours.

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‘My Husband Kept Coffin Under Our Bed, Planned To Use Our Child For Ritual’

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December 6, 2025

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In a chilling case that shocked Matero Local Court, Zambia, 36-year-old woman from Chisamba has been granted divorce from her husband, whom she accused of attempting to sacrifice their two children.

Bertha Mumbi told the court that her husband, Abel Ngoma, 46, of Chibombo, allegedly plotted to kill their two daughters—aged 11 years and 7 years as part of ritual instructions he received from a witchdoctor in 2021.

According to Zambia Observer, testifying before the magistrate, Lewis Mumba Bertha said that Abel even made a small coffin in preparation for the supposed death of their firstborn and kept it in their bedroom for four consecutive nights after she refused to participate in the scheme.

“By then, he had already made a small coffin in readiness for the death of my firstborn. He never told me about the coffin he made. We slept for four days with it under our bed,” she said.

Bertha said the plan was brought to light by the witchdoctor’s informant, who approached her to demand compensation for cancelling the agreement, since she had refused to consent to the sacrifice.