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On a normal day, 36-year-old Chukwuemeka Nwocha, the General Overseer of Tongue of Fire Restoration Ministry located in Igbosere, Lagos, is a ‘man of God’ that his congregation, both young and old, called “Daddy”. But on Friday, as he was being paraded before journalists at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters in Ikeja, he was no longer a “spiritual daddy”  but a suspect who harboured 13 underaged girls as sex slaves in a three-bedroomed harem. Fair complexioned and soft-spoken,  Nwocha did not come across as someone capable of such crime. When he started to talk about what he did before journalists, he started by saying “By His Grace,” a statement that elicited a laugh of derision from all present. According to Nwocha, it all started when the children in his church, who called him, “Daddy, daddy” told him they would like to visit him. He said, “I only tried to help the girls.When the first girl came,...

Luck can be timely, that was the case and  fortune of a family of three residing at Baale Aiyetoro Street, Ajegunle area of Apapa,  who narrowly escaped death after a bad neighbour spiced their delicious pot of soup with insecticide popularly called "Otapiapia" in Ajegunle, Lagos. What started as a normal routine of soup cooking  for a woman ended up as a disaster as she went to buy salt for the meal she was preparing only to return and find out that the aroma of the soup has changed to that of an insecticide popularly called "Otapiapia".  The woman who was suspicious quickly notified her landlady. The landlady was said to have arrested the only co-tenant on the premises and took him to the traditional ruler of the area, who handed him over to the police. It was gathered that the suspect, Gordon Daniel, during interrogation, confessed to the crime. Daniel told the police that, “the devil pushed me to do it. I doused the soup with sniper insecticide so as to ...