A fashion designer, Lawrence Edobor, was on Friday beheaded by suspected ritualists at about 2 am in Evbuotubu, Benin City. The 43-year-old was said to be coming home from a burial he attended on Thursday evening before he was murdered and beheaded, an incident which left the community in shock. A resident who pleaded anonymity…
Operatives attached to the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos, have arrested three suspects with alleged specialty in forging cheques of international banks. The suspects, the police said, were also notorious for impersonating foreign celebrities. Innocent Odumosor, 27, Ajie Samuel Chukwudi, 31, and Godwin Divine, 19, were arrested at their Lagos…
A man has been charged with murder after allegedly fatally shooting the administrator of a community WhatsApp group who removed him from the chat, police said Saturday, March 8. Mushtaq Ahmed was shot dead on Thursday evening, March 6, in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province that borders Afghanistan, which has a history…
The Abia State Police Command has arrested a 21-year-old 300-level student of the Department of Animal Breeding and Physiology, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, for unlawful possession of firearms. In a statement released on Friday, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Maureen Chinaka, said the police recovered three locally made pistols and one English…
An Islamic cleric, Abdulraman Bello, yesterday told the Kwara State Magistrates’ Court how he murdered and disemebered a female student of the Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, Yetunde Hasfoh Lawal. The deceased and cleric were said to be Facebook friends. Abdulraman said this during his arraignment with four others. He therefore pleaded for the…
Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested two Pakistani nationals, Roman Gull, 19, and Aftab Ahmad, 28, for allegedly leading a kidnapping syndicate in the state. According to PUNCH, the suspects alongside five accomplices, lured a 48-year-old Pakistani from Kano State with a fake job offer as a chef before abducting him and…
The police in Ekiti State have arraigned one Rev. Rotimi Osho (63) before a Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti over an alleged intent to murder a traditional ruler in the state. The prosecutor, Inspector Akinwale Oriyomi, told the court that the defendant and others at large, sometime in 2024, attempted to kill/murder Oba Adebayo…
Two persons John Moses and Yakubu Mohammed have been sentenced to surgical castration and death by hanging after being convicted for rape and incest in Kaduna. Another convicted rapist Mustapha Musa was sentenced to life imprisonment. Commissioner, Ministry of Human Services and Social Development, Hajiya Rabi Salisu disclosed this to journalists in Kaduna on Wednesday….
No fewer than eight people have been shot by some angry individuals identified to be members of a local vigilante group in Elele town, Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State. However, police in the state said that four people were shot in the incident that happened on Wednesday at Elele around-about on the Port…
The Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan in Kaduna has confirmed the death of its priest, Rev. Fr Sylvester Okechukwu, just a day after he was kidnapped. The late Okechukwu was the pastor of St Mary Catholic Church, Tachira, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State. A statement signed by the Chancellor of the Diocese, Rev.Fr. Jacob…