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ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that a 16-year-old boy identified as Ismail Adeagbo has on Friday, day of Eidel-Fitri been detained at a Divisional Police Command, Tede, Atisbo Local Government for allegedly killing his father.

The lifeless body of the deceased, Jimoh Adeagbo who before his death was a worker at the Atisbo Local Government Council was found in a pool of blood by the community residents.

According to a confessional statement made to the Police by the arrested killer boy who committed the homicide, he said to have belonged to a member of notorious cult group, Alora.

According to the boy, on the 20th of April, 2023, he was mandated by the leaders of his cult group to kill his father before the midnight of that day, which he eventually carried out without hesitation.

He said, the cult leaders warned him not disobey the order and that doing so would have great consequences on him which may eventually cost his own life too.

According to the community people who spoke to ODUDUWA NEWS under the condition of anonymity, they said, the boy who killed his father by hitting his head with car engine shaft had gone out to announce the death of his father by shedding crocodile tears only to realize later that he killed his father by himself.

It was learnt that the boy confessed to his mother that he killed his father. In complicit, the mother asked the boy to go on hibernation by hiding himself somewhere until the matter gets resolved.

The Police having received complaints of the incident by the family of the deceased swung into action and in the course of investigation got the culprit who was hiding arrested as well as his mother who connived to shield him away from being arrest.

As at the time of filing this report, we await the official statement on the incident from the Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Adewale Osifeso as all calls put through him by our correspondent could not be answered.

Leke, son of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said he made his first one million selling rubber.

Speaking in a recent interview, Leke reveals that everyone wants to hit it big but forget the essence of little profit.

According to Tribune, he said: ”I made my first million selling wristband, rubber to be precise.

Everybody else is always trying to hit the guy on the top, but they forget the little things, so you need to focus on the little things.

We use a lot of toothpicks in Nigeria; for example, who is supplying the toothpicks?

Promotional gift items for those that are doing branding wristbands are just rubber. But if I sell enough of those rubbers with a very tiny margin profit of N50 or N100 at a big Christian event, it adds up.”

The marriage between Pastor Joshua Ajagunigbala and his wife, Rita Ajagunigbala has been dissolved.
The 22-year marriage collapsed in Ekiti State after a herbalist died on top of the pastor’s wife during s3x romp in a hotel.

According to ODUDUWA NEWS, Pastor Joshua stated that his marriage was dissolved at the Ekiti State Customary Court after he filed a divorce suit seeking for the dissolution of the marriage with Rita on the grounds of adultery.

The petitioner, Pastor Ajagunigbala, during the hearing prayed the Court to dissolve the union on the ground of adultery and the custody of his children be given to him.

In evidence, he told the Court that he had not paid the dowry of the respondent and they had lived together for more than 22 years and had children.

He also informed the Court that it was the third time he had taken her to Court on the ground of adultery, stating that the respondent in 2017 started having an illicit affair with a herbalist called Ifidayomi a.k.a Ejiogbe, who is now late.

He narrated that the Herbalist died on top of the respondent while having sexual intercourse in a hotel at Ikere-Ekiti on 2nd January, 2023, which led to a commotion and made thugs to destroy his house and his church at Ikere.

He lamented that her action led to his suspension by his Church authority and because of this, he is no longer interested in the union and pleaded with the Court to dissolve the union and give him custody of his children.

Mrs. Ajagunigbala, in response, admitted having sexual relationship with the late herbalist. She stated that her relationship with the Herbalist was because of lack of care from the petitioner. She said that she had been the one responsible for the feeding of the children and their school fees. She claimed that she had incurred so much debt, which the late Ejiogbe helped her to offset.

Twitter’s co-founder and ex-CEO, Jack Dorsey has launched a version of another social media app “Bluesky” as an alternative to Twitter for Android users and the platform reportedly has about 20,000 users currently.

The app is poised to offer a refreshing take on social media, and many are already speculating that it could become the next big thing.

This follows after Elon Musk caused a stir by removing Dorsey verification badge on Twitter.

Whether it will be able to dethrone Twitter remains to be seen, but for now, it’s worth keeping an eye on.

ODUDUWA NEWS has gathered that a storey building situated at Sango Police Barracks, Ibadan has just collapsed.

The building consists of two blocks of flat said to have collapsed on Saturday evening.

According to our correspondent who visited the scene reported, “this block just collapsed at Sango Police Barracks, Ibadan, Oyo State, the collapsed structure is in front of a residential three-storey building

“All attempts to reach the officials of the National Emergency Management Agency, Ibadan and the Oyo State Police Command for comments on the incident were futile as of the time of filing this report

“Meanwhile, the residents and onlookers are intensifying efforts to evacuate the rubble as the number of trapped persons or commodities remains unknown”.

Details later…

The bereaved mother of late Temitope Olorufemi, who was beaten to death by a mob in Akure, Ondo state, has revealed that her son is neither a yahoo boy nor ritualist as reported by eyewitnesses.

It would be recalled that on Monday, April 10, the deceased was killed after he was accused of crushing at least one person to death along Ijoka road and fetish items were found in his car.

However, the deceased’s mom in an interview, explained that her 25-year-old son was a cabbie and had been gifted the car by his dad. Mrs Olorunfemi, noted that after the deceased completed his studies at Marshal’s Navy school in Ogun state, proceeded to Lagos in search of greener pasture. But, after a while, he returned home because he was struggling in Lagos.

She stated that the incident which brought about Temitope’s death happened during his visit to Akure for the Easter holiday to see his wife and child who came for his grandmother’s burial ceremony.

Mosunmola, the deceased’s wife, who tearfully corroborated her mother in-law’s report, noted that her husband is not a ritualist and has never been found to be a fraudster. She noted that Temitope had a lot of customers in Lagos that could testify to the fact that he was a cabbie. However, the family urged the state government to help get justice for the deceased.

An artisan, Michael Agosu, who is currently being investigated by policemen attached to Ogijo Police Station, Ogun State Command, for domestic violence, has revealed that he beats his wife, Kafiat Salami, because she starves him of sex.

Oduduwa News reports that the Agosu was arrested on Thursday, April 20, for beating Kafiat to stupor at their Escoba area in Ogjijo, Ogun State, residence,

Giving reasons for his action, the father of four said

“My wife is always demanding money. She does not allow me to touch her. At night she puts on trousers to prevent us from having s€x. Anytime she allows me to have her, immediately she wears trouser after one round.”

Calling on the government to come to her rescue, Kafiat said

“I am not happy with the domestic violence. Government should, please, come to my aid before he kills me.”

Recounting her ordeal in the hands of her husband in the past 14 years, the distraught wife said

“This is how he has been beating me for years. Even while I was pregnant with our first child, he beats me up. Today’s incident happened around 11a.m. I was washing clothes when my husband came back, and he said he will beat me to death. Before I knew what was happening he used wood and iron to hit me in my eye. Even when I was bleeding, he kept hitting me.”

Explaining further, Kafiat said he had not paid my dowry

“We have been together for over 14 years and have four children. It is only my grandmother that was aware of the marriage. My parents were not. It was after I gave birth to my first child I went to see my father; that was before he passed on. My husband is from Cotonou. He works as a carpenter and works in the Mushin area of Lagos.”she said

The Lagos State Police Command, on Wednesday, confirmed the arrest of 42 suspected cultists in connection with a series of crimes in the Ijora, Orile, Ebute Meta, and Ikorodu areas of the state.

The state Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, while parading the suspects at the command headquarters in the Ikeja area of the state, said during his last conference with police and field officers across the state, he identified cultism as an evolving crime threatening the internal security of the state.

He said, “I laid out a new set of operational plans to frontally address the emerging threat. I reorganised the special unit of the command, zoned the state and with the support of the Inspector-General of Police, we fully equipped and gave a new orientation to the different special units.

“We sent them to our Area Commands, equip them and charge them to operate optimally not just to identify these cultists but to undertake intelligence-led operations such that the battle will be taken to the doorsteps of these so-called cultists.

The crescent moon has been sighted in Saudi Arabia and Eid Al-Fitr will be celebrated on Friday 21st April 2023.

Meanwhile, Nigerian Muslims await official declaration from Sultan of Sokoto tonight being the leader of Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs.

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The Osun State Government under the leadership of Senator Ademola Adeleke has put in place necessary measures to make movement convenient for its citizens in and out of the State during Eld-El-Fitri celebration.

Mrs Kehinde Odediran, Coordinating Director, Ministry of Commerce, Industry, Cooperatives and Empowerment said this in a statement on Tuesday, 18th April, 2023 in Osogbo.

Mrs Odediran said the train would leave Lagos terminus to Osogbo by 10.am on Thursday, 20th April, 2023 and return to Lagos on Monday, 24th April, 2023 by 10.am.

She explained that the government provided the train service to lessen the financial burden of Osun indigenes in the area of transportation during festive periods.

She therefore implored people to maximize the opportunity of the free train; assuring them of adequate security inside the train.