Yobe State Police Command has commenced a manhunt for an 18-year-old housewife who allegedly attacked her 25-year-old husband, inflicting a deep cut on his genitalia. The announcement was made by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Dungus Abdulkarim, in a statement issued to journalists in Damaturu on Saturday, stating that the Command recorded a disturbing…
Armed men suspected to be members of Neo-Black Movement cult, popularly known as Aye on Friday evening went on rampage in Ogidi community of Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State. Our correspondent gathered that the cultists who attacked the community injured many indigenes, while also killing the President General of the community, Chief…
Suspected terrorists have returned to Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State, killing at least 13 people. The attack on Anwase Market in Mbaikyor ward came barely days after a similar deadly assault on Abande community. The latest attack occurred on Friday at the bustling market, where the assailants opened fire on traders and residents,…
A 60-year-old woman, Mrs Sade Akindeji, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for burglary and stealing in Ondo town, Ondo State. Mrs Akindeji was convicted by the Oke Eda Division of the Magistrates’ Court sitting in Akure after she was found guilty of a two-count charge brought against her by the Ondo State Amotekun…
The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a woman, Nafisat Lateef, for allegedly poisoning a three-year-old boy at Omifon community in Odigbo Local Government Area. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abayomi Jimoh, disclosed the arrest in a statement on Friday, noting that the victim is the child of her tenant. According to Jimoh,…
The police on Friday arraigned a 22-year-old man, Dayo Shonekan, before the Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun for allegedly entering into a Celestial Church to steal three bells. The defendant, whose address was not stated, is standing trial on two counts of stealing and forceful entry. He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. The…
The Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU), Lagos, has apprehended three suspects over an alleged cyber blackmail and extortion scheme involving threats to release nude photographs of a victim unless ransom was paid. The Unit’s spokesperson, DSP Ovie Ewhubare, confirmed this in a statement on Friday. He said that the suspects, two males and a female,…
The Federal Road Safety Corps has described the conviction and life imprisonment of Okpara Onyekachi as a victory for justice and road safety enforcement in Nigeria. The judgment was delivered by the Lagos State High Court, TBS Division, in suit number LD/24692C/2024. The case arose from a fatal road crash that claimed the life of…
A UK-based Nigerian man, Adedapo Adegbola has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a woman he worked with after she ended their brief ‘controlling relationship’. Adegbola fatally stabbed 23-year-old Stephanie Irons in the neck at her home in Mapperley, Nottinghamshire, on 21 October. Nottingham Crown Court heard he “had become obsessed” with Irons…
Police in the United Kingdom have identified Khaleed Oladipo, a Nigerian student, as the 20-year-old who was fatally stabbed near De Montfort University in Leicester. According to the Leicestershire Police, Oladipo died in a hospital on Tuesday evening after being stabbed in Oxford Street. An 18-year-old murder suspect arrested on suspicion of murder is reportedly…
