A bereaved wife has begged the police to arrest her husband’s killers. Aderonke Balogun, 25, narrated how her husband, Sulaimon Ajayi, was rushed to a hospital following an attack on him. He was later discharged but was admitted again when he developed complications. He died days later in the hospital. Trouble began when members of Ijegemo-Omilende community in…
Two men were arrested in Angwete Village in Kakamega Town, Kenya on Friday morning while engaging in a homosexual act. Nyumbi Kumi Initiative elder, Reuben Otiende disclosed that they had suspected that Wanyeso alias Gili was a homosexual after he recently “committed the crime with a neighbour’s son”. Residents of the community broke down Wanyeso’s door after they saw a…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt zonal office on Thursday, August 20, secured the conviction of two Lebanese men, Chamseddine Waell Mohammed and Dina Jihad Khali, who both pleaded guilty to separate one-count charge of money laundering preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. A statement released by the antigraft…
A woman has been rescued from a septic tank three days after a man who stole her baby from her threw her in there. The nursing mother named Mrs Chizoba Eke was pulled out alive but injured from the septic tank of an uncompleted building located at Igwuruta, Ikwerre Local Government Area, Rivers State. Her attacker, simply…
Three teenage boys have been arrested by men of the Katsina state police command for allegedly gang-raping and drowning a 13-year-old girl to death in a pond in the state on August 14. Spokesperson of the state police command, SP Gambo Isah, who paraded the boys before newsmen, said the suspects were aged between 15 and 16.…
36-year-old Ugochukwu Obiakor was on Wednesday August 12, sentenced to 25 years in prison by an Abeokuta high court, for raping an 11-year-old girl. Justice Mosunmola Dipeolu who presided over the case in which the man pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge against him, held that the evidence presented before the court by the prosecution was tenable and…
Some suspected armed robbers who killed and buried a serving police officer in a shallow grave in Imo state, have been arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Imo State Police Command. Imo police commissioner Isaac Akinmoyede who paraded the suspects before newsmen at the command’s headquarters in Owerri on Wednesday August 12, said the suspects…
Men of the Niger state police command have arrested a transporter, Abubakar Adamu, after 375 rounds of live ammunition, and seven AK47 magazines were allegedly found in his vehicle. The spokesperson of the state police command, Abiodun Wasiu, who disclosed this to newsmen, said Abubakar was intercepted in Suleja while driving a red Civic Honda car loaded…
Two rival lovers identified as Eniola Ayodele and Kayode Babashola have been arrested alongside their girlfriend Barakat Wasiu, following the death of a peacemaker identified as Muhammed Obadimeji. Obadimeji was reportedly stabbed with a sharp object while trying to seperate the men who were fighting over Barakat in Dopemu area of Lagos State. The deceased who was rushed to Lagos…
The police in Taraba state have arrested a 65-year-old man, Ahmadu Garba, and two others for allegedly raping an 11-year-old girl. The spokesperson of the state police command, DSP David Misal, who disclosed this to newsmen, gave the names of the two other suspects as Abubakar Bala, 37, and Suleiman Ahmadu. Misal said Garba was reported to have kidnapped…