A 37-year-old man, Ziaulihak Zakari, popularly known as Abuja, has allegedly confessed to receiving N500,000 to carry out an acid attack on a female spa worker in the Lakowe area of Lagos State.\n<\/p>\n
PUNCH Metro reports that the victim, Olorunseunfunmi Awosogbon, sustained severe injuries to her head, chest and hands during the attack, which occurred on October 25, 2025.\n<\/p>\n
Awosogbon had reportedly honoured a home service request booked through the spa where she worked. The appointment was scheduled at Lakowe Golf Gate, near Utmost Care Hospital, where the incident took place.\n<\/p>\n
Findings, however, indicate that she was not the intended target.<\/p>\n
Her employer, Olorunmaye Ifeoluwa, told PUNCH Metro that the attack was linked to a dispute involving a former relationship between her and another suspect alleged to have hired Zakari.\n<\/p>\n
She said the relationship, which lasted a few months, was characterised by disagreements before it ended.\n<\/p>\n
Zakari and one Owolabi Daniel have since been arraigned before a Magistrate Court in Ebute-Metta on charges bordering on conspiracy, threat to life and causing bodily harm.<\/p>\n
In a video obtained by our correspondent on Thursday, Zakari\u2014who was reportedly arrested on March 19, 2026\u2014admitted he was recruited for the attack but mistakenly assaulted the wrong person.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a man named Daniel who contacted me through a security guard and told me he had a job. When he said he needed someone to pour acid on a person, I agreed,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t carry it out the first time because I was scared. When another opportunity came, I mistook the target and attacked the wrong person.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe acid was procured by the man and the security guard. I was paid N500,000 for the job and gave the security guard N50,000 for linking me up,\u201d he added, expressing regret over his actions.\n<\/p>\n
According to the charge sheet, the suspects allegedly conspired in October 2025 at Lakowe, Ibeju-Lekki, to commit felony, including threats to life and causing harm, contrary to Section 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.\n<\/p>\n
It further alleged that Owolabi threatened Ifeoluwa\u2019s life via WhatsApp messages, an offence punishable under Section 232 of the same law.\n<\/p>\n
Zakari was also accused of unlawfully wounding Awosogbon by pouring a corrosive substance on her, contrary to Section 246 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 37-year-old man, Ziaulihak Zakari, popularly known as Abuja, has allegedly confessed to receiving N500,000 to carry out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[112639,113448,8479,73563,57869,56420,113449,108174,11517,113450,28807,122,112641,71288,112642,113451,113452],"class_list":{"0":"post-222921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-acid-attack","9":"tag-conspiracy","10":"tag-crime-news","11":"tag-criminal-conspiracy","12":"tag-criminal-law","13":"tag-ibeju-lekki","14":"tag-lagos-acid-attack","15":"tag-lagos-crime","16":"tag-lagos-state","17":"tag-lakowe","18":"tag-mistaken-identity","19":"tag-nigeria","20":"tag-olorunseunfunmi-awosogbon","21":"tag-punch-metro","22":"tag-spa-worker","23":"tag-wrongful-assault","24":"tag-ziaulihak-zakari"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116532585728970603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}