The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, has warned Nigerian youths to shun money rituals. He spoke on Sunday during a thanksgiving service at the Holy Aruosa Cathedral in Benin to round off the 2018 annual Igue festival celebrations.

He said youths who cling to the illusion that they could become wealthy by killing people or stealing female underwear for ritual purposes would no doubt face the consequence. He added that the behaviour was abominable and alien to Benin customs and tradition.

The monarch interceded for Nigeria and her leaders and urged politicians and youths to shun acts that could undermine free, fair and credible elections in 2019 and also warned politicians to desist from violence and other acts inimical to the electoral process. He cautioned youths not to allow themselves to be used as political thugs to cause mayhem during elections.

A huge number of women have flocked to a native doctor who claims he can restore women’s virginity. Ever since the native doctor’s abilities became public knowledge, many women have approached him to seek his services.

The native doctor identified as Erdington Virimayi from Kwekwe, Zimbabwe, claims to be both a prophet and a traditional doctor. He also specializes in locking couples, giving enriching charms as well as enlarging men’s manhood.

According to Erdington Virimayi, restoring virginity was a very easy task for him.

He said: “I restore virginity to girls as long as they follow what I tell them to do. It’s just most men know me for enlarging manhood to the sizes of their choices but I also have a service for women.”

He also claims a soldier became the tall of the town after he enlarged his manhood.

He boasted: “He came back to me and thanked me for the service saying girls were falling over him after the service. That is how we do it.”

The native doctor who is also a member of the Mugodhi Apostolic Church said there was nothing wrong with mixing traditional practices and Christianity. He even reads a Bible for his clients because he’s also a prophet.

He said: “I started healing in 1989 when I was in Grade 7 when I was receiving prophetic visions. I was then taken by a mermaid and I was initiated into traditional healing. So I was a prophet until 2000 and now I am both a prophet and a traditional healer.”

Virimayi gets clients from different countries, with some of his clients coming from as far as South Africa, Botswana and Namibia.

A 15-year-old girl, Precious Ehiedo, and two others, Juliet Ogben and Favour Okoh, have been arrested by men of the operatives of the Imo state police command for allegedly stealing and selling two siblings between the ages of two and seven for N800,000.

While parading the suspects before newsmen and also handing one of the recovered babies to the parents, the state Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi, said Precious stole the siblings, two-year-old Chiemerem and seven-year-old Mmesoma Nwoke, in Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State after following the advise of her parents who refused to give her money for money to register for the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination WASSCE, when she asked.

Her parents had told her they had no money for her exam registration and advised her to do what her ‘mates are doing’, steal children, sell them and make money.

“On November 13 at around 9am, one Precious Ehiedo, 15, daughter of Mr and Mrs Romeo and Uchechi Ehiedo, resident at Ogbuaku in Mbaitoli LGA of Imo State but natives of Abraka in Delta State, requested from her parents money for the SSCE registration. Her parents told her to go and steal children for them to sell in order to raise money for her examination. Being familiar with the two children at her maternal home, Umuezeala Ama, in Ehime Mbano LGA of Imo State, she stole the children.

“The girl and her father left for Mbano, but the father stopped at the Amaraku Market square, waiting for his daughter to hand over the children, who he had instructed her to steal. The 15-year-old met the children playing, stole them and joined her father at the Amaraku Market and both left with the children to Ogbaku. The children were sold to one Mama Joy at the rate of N800,000. Mama Joy, with one Favour Okoh, resold one of the children to one Juliet Ogbor for N750,000.”

Galadanchi said the police immediately commenced investigation and was able to recover one of the children, Chiemerem, on December 15th at Agbor in Delta State.

One of the recovered children with her parents in the photo above.

The police boss added that the suspects would be arraigned in court soon.

A suspect identified as Vincent Idumonyi, was apprehended by police operatives after abducting and raping a 16-year-old secondary school girl in Benin city, Edo state.

It was gathered that the suspect met his victim on Facebook where she released her phone number to him after they became friends.

After a month of chatting, the suspect arranged to meet with the girl in a hotel in the town where he kidnapped her for three days.

He threatened to inject her with a deadly substance if she raised an alarm, a situation which led to her being raped by the suspect.

Vincent then contacted the girl’s family to demand for some money before her release.

The family eventually parted ways with N382,000.

The victim herself revealed that the suspect who threatened her also with a knife, had sex with her twice in the hotel.

Watch the video below to hear his confession.

A woman is currently at large after hacking her husband to death with an axe during dispute over Christmas gift.

Homicide detectives in Mutare are looking for the woman from Chikanga in Mutare, Zimbabwe, who disappeared soon after axing her husband to death following a domestic dispute on December 24.

Anesu Mafokosho is alleged to have axed Vitalis Mudhumo, 26, at around 3pm soon after the couple returned home from the city centre where they had gone shopping. The dispute which ended in the death of the husband was sparked by gifts which the couple had bought for their child for Christmas.

According to local reports, the couple’s union was experiencing some problems and the unresolved marital dispute was threatening their marriage.

On December 24 the Vitalis met his wife Anesu at the Stop Sign in Chikanga 2. The two drove to Edgars Mutare where they bought their three-year-old daughter’s clothes. After shopping, the deceased and his wife went back home. On getting home, Anesu’s younger sister, who was in the dinning room, heard the couple arguing outside the yard for about 45 minutes.

Moments later they got into the house and entered into their bedroom. In the bedroom, Vitalis started packing his clothes saying he was moving out. His wife begged him to change his mind to no avail.

The situation degenerated into chaos resulting in the wife axing the deceased three time on the neck.

Soon after committing the offence, Mafokosho fled home and sent a text message to her sister telling her to go see what she had done in the bedroom.

On getting into the room, the younger sister found Vitalis bleeding and convulsing on the bed.

Manicaland police spokesman Inspector Tavhiringwa Kakohwa said Mudhumo’s body was taken to Mutare Provincial Hospital for post mortem.

The accused is still at large and investigations are in progress.

A suspect in the gruesome murder of the head pastor of the Central Assemblies of God Church at Tema Community Four, Rev Dr David Nabegmado has been arrested by the police.

Rev Dr David Nabegmado was stabbed to death Sunday morning at the church premises where he was preparing to deliver a sermon.

His nephew, Francis M.Nabegmado who lived with him for some time, has been identified as a key suspect in the gruesome murder and has been arrested by the police. A second suspect has also been arrested and being interrogated by the police, Graphic Online has gathered.

The deceased was accosted by the suspect while moving from the church office into the main auditorium for the day’s service at about 9am.

Rev Nabegmado was scheduled to minister to the church on Sunday when the incident occurred.

The reason for the attack is not readily known.

But Graphic Online has gathered Rev Nabegmado died at the Tema General hospital where he was taken to for treatment.

The murder weapon – a knife – which was used to stab Rev Nabegmado has also been retrieved by the police.

The video below depicts the scene at the church premises immediately after the attack when Rev Nabegmado was on his way to a health facility.

Rev Alfred Kweku Akumbie, Greater Accra East Regional Secretary of Assemblies of God Church confirmed the killing of the Assemblies of God Head Pastor at Tema Community 4 to Graphic Online.