The Church of England’s spiritual leader on Wednesday said it was disgraceful that the institution for decades failed to protect children from sexual predators within its ranks and shown lack of care for victims. From the 1940s to 2018, 390 clergy and people in positions of trust with the Church were convicted of sexual offences […]
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By Shefiu Adeyemo An Akure Chief Magistrate Court on Tuesday remanded the suspected killer of a Ghanaian at Owo Correctional Centre. The suspect, Wale Hassan, who claimed that he used cutlass and hand file to stab the deceased whose name and age are yet unknown to the prosecutor. He was accused according to the charge […]
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A principal lecturer in the Department of Adult Education of the defunct College of Education now Tayo Akpata University, Ekiadolor, Benin, Friday Orobator, has committed suicide over 13-month unpaid salary arrears. The senior lecturer, who was in his 50s and whose wife had just been delivered of a baby, hanged himself at his Obakhazbaye, Benin […]
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Chief Priest of Igbudu community in Warri South council area of Delta State, Mr Victor Alawuru, has been stabbed to death for allegedly impregnating a lady. It was learnt the incident, which happened along Degbori Street in the Hausa Quarters axis of the community, left people running helter-skelter in the neighbourhood on Friday evening. It […]
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The mother of 21-year-old Blessing Olusegun is demanding the cause of her daughter’s death whose body was found lying on a beach in East Sussex, a region in the United Kingdom, according to the Evening Standard. One of Olusegun’s close friends and a work colleague, Christiana Sofolabo, described her death as “mysterious.” However, the Sussex […]
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A 26-year-old man, names withheld, has alleged killed his father in Umuomaku in the Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra state. The suspect reportedly ran amok in a yet to be ascertained circumstance before attacking the 70-year old father with a shovel. He was said to have buried the corpse in a shallow grave. […]
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By Shefiu Adeyemo A young man, Wale Hazzan, is cooling his feet in the Akure Prison for killing a Ghanaian. He was remanded on Thursday by an Akure Magistrate Court sitting at Oke Eda Magisterial District in the Ondo State capital. Magistrate N. T. Aladejana, before whom the accused was arraigned, ordered Hazzan’s remand specifically […]
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By Shefiu Adeyemo An Akure Chief Magistrate Court is probing into how thieves broke into one Aderinlewa Olufikayo’s house in the HOB Estate behind the Federal Secretariat Akure, Ondo State, and carted off properties valued N211, 000 at about 12.00 noon on March 15. The court is questioning two security guards and another one still […]
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The police in Anambra State have arrested a 31-year-old man for allegedly selling twin babies of his ex-girlfriend. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Haruna Mohammed, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Awka, the state capital. Mohammed said the suspect sold the twin babies from an ex-girlfriend whom he (suspect) impregnated […]
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A new born baby wrapped in a polythene bag was found dead in a gutter near Aku Village, Mararaba, in Karu area of Nasarawa state. Residents were shocked to discover the baby in the gutter. The incident which happened on Tuesday, drew a large crowd to the scene after a young man entered the gutter […]
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