In the following touching story, Olamide Famuwagun captures the anguish of parents in a Lagos slum over the unknown whereabouts of their children: Hot tears rolled down the distraught face of 57-year-old tyre repairer, Oriyomi Onikoyi, while recounting the agony of his four-year-old daughter, Alimot’s disappearance in the Otto Ilogbo community in Ebute Metta, Lagos. […]
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The police in Lagos have arrested a 39-year-old man for allegedly raping his friend’s wife in their bedroom in Surulere, Lagos. The incident happened at about 2:00 a.m. on 22 August. It was gathered that the suspect allegedly burgled the apartment of the victim and unlawfully had sexual intercourse with her. The victim said that […]
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Lagos State Police Boss, Abiodun Alabi Residents and traders at Mile 12, in the Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State, have been living in fear after cultists allegedly killed a Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Sulaimon Onaolapo, aka Ariku, in the area. In a video which trended online on Sunday […]
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Edo State Police Command has said that the building where mummified bodies were found can not pass for a morgue, as the principal suspect has no approval to operate such, noting that a severed body at the facility showed there was more happening at the place than claimed. At a press conference on Monday, the […]
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Police Inspector General, Alkali Baba Usman Two widows alleged to be witches have been lynched in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State. The victims identified as Mrs Martina Osom and Mrs Rose Akon, were on Saturday, August 27, allegedly tortured to death by youths. It was gathered that the incident happened in Ebbaken […]
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Some five assailants, operating in the cover of the night at the weekend, killed a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Samaila Awudu. It was gathered that the assailants got at Awudu in the early hours of Friday at his lodge in the Adamawa State capital, Yola. The incident occurred at the Yolde […]
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Police Inspector General Enugu State Police Command has arraigned three women for alleged conspiracy, trafficking of newborn twins and subsequent killing of their mother. This was contained in a statement by the command’s spokesman Daniel Ndukwe. The statement noted that the suspects who are aged 25, 39 and 56 respectively were remanded in the Enugu […]
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Katsina Police Command on Thursday said the 25-year-old man, … who used a pestle to kill his stepmother last Thursday in Katsina would be arraigned in court anytime from now. The command’s spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, made the disclosure shortly after the suspect was paraded at the command’s headquarters, katsina. Also displayed during the parade […]
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Instagram model and influencer, Courtney Clenney alias Tailor, has been arrested by the Hawaii Police Department for allegedly stabbing her Nigerian boyfriend, Christian Tobechukwu Obumseli, to death. According to NBC News, a Wednesday release by the Hawaii Police Department stated that a warrant was issued for the arrest of 26-year-old Clenney on allegations of second-degree […]
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The Police Command in Adamawa has rescued four persons recently kidnapped in Maiha Local Government Area of the state. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Nguroje, in a statement made available to newsmen in Yola on Sunday, said that the victims were rescued unharmed. He said that during the operation, three of the criminals […]
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