Court remands gospel singer caught with NYSC girlfriend’s severed head

A Nasarawa State High Court has ordered the remand of Timilehin Ajayi, a gospel musician, who was captured with the severed head of Salome Adaidu, a member of the National Youth Service Corps.

The remand was announced in a short statement put on the Nasarawa State Police Command’s X page on Friday.

According to the statement, the suspect was arraigned while awaiting his official arraignment.

The statement read, “Timilehin Ajayi was charged to court today and remanded in prison custody pending his formal arraignment.”

Daily Sun reported on Tuesday that Ajayi was arrested by churchgoers for allegedly killing and dismembering Adaidu, for suspected ritual purposes.

Caleb Umaru, the church’s Bible Study Teacher and General Secretary, explained that a member saw Ajayi acting suspiciously near a river.

He claimed that the member alerted others when Ajayi threw a bag into the river, which was later recovered and discovered to contain his girlfriend’s severed head.

The suspect, who acknowledged to conducting the crime, expressed no sorrow for his actions.

He said that the late Adaidu, his lover, was cheating on him, which caused him to kill her.

Meanwhile, relatives of the dead family said that their sister was never in a connection with the suspect and that she was abducted, despite allegations that Adaidu had visited him.