Operatives of the Iba police station have arrested a certain Orji Ifeanyichukwu, 19, for allegedly setting Alabi Tolani, his 24-year-old girlfriend, ablaze because she had another lover.

Bala Elkana, Lagos state police public relations officer, disclosed this in a statement to journalists on Sunday.

Elkana said the incident took place at G54, Army Post Service Housing Estate, Ojo, Lagos where they both lived in Ifeanyichukwu’s N600,000 per year apartment.

“Ifeanyichukwu met the victim on Feb. 28, through a hookup and she moved into his house in March,” the police spokesman said.

“He has been into internet fraud popularly known as Yahoo boys for the past three years where he gets the proceeds for renting the apartment.

“They have since then, inhabited as lovers because her parents live apart.”