Crime

    Four persons were today crushed to death in an accident, which occurred in ljoka area, in Akure, the Ondo state capital.   An eyewitness said that the victims were crushed to death by a yet-to-be-identified ‘yahoo boy’   According to him “The Yahoo boy was driving a Toyota …

A 20-year-old man, Philibus Ibrahim, who was arrested for strangling his pregnant girlfriend, Theresa Yakubu, to death in Kano, has confessed to the crime. Philibus, while being paraded, confessed to killing Theresa, who was pregnant for him, after all efforts to abort her pregnancy failed. The spokeswoman for the command, SP Abdullahi …

Motorcycles seized The police confirmed the release of 67 vehicles and motorcycles to the Members of Shi’ites (an Islamic Group).   Mr Mark Abu, Counsel for the plaintiffs, said this was an execution of the judgement of Kaduna State High Court which directed the police to release to his clients …

A Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a secondary school teacher, Peter Jacob, to life imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old pupil with special needs.   Justice Abiola Soladoye handed down the verdict, stating that the prosecution had efficiently proven the charge of defilement against the defendant …

The prosecutor, Abayomi Olowoyo-Richard, called five witnesses and tendered statements of the defendant, a knife, photographs of the corpse of the deceased and statements of the witnesses as exhibits.   But counsel for the defendant, Emmanuel Adedeji, who said the defendant was mentally imbalanced at the time of the incident, …

She was discovered in the wee hours of today, Friday the 24th day of march inside the Omambala, dead, floating above the river, it was raised various attentions and speculation as many said the mother is an unknown young girl, who gave birth to the baby, and dumped her into …

Young lady arrested in UK after travel agent she paid N15m scammed her with fake documents A Nigerian lady has landed in trouble in the United Kingdom after being scammed and deceived by a travel agent. The 20-year-old reportedly paid the agent about €20k (approximately N15 million) to process student …

Tragedy in Ondo as 75-year-old woman sets her son, daughter-law and two grandchildren ablaze   A 75-year-old woman, Iforiti Oloro, has allegedly set her son, daughter-law, and grandchildren abl@ze in Ondo State.   According to reports, the tragic incident occurred at Aponmu, a suburb of Akure, Ondo’s capital city, at …

      A 24-year-old suspected rapist was taken into custody by the Amotekun Corps, a security network of states in the South-West, on Friday in Iwo, Osun. He was accused of having had carnal knowledge of the 16-year-old girl while keeping her in his room for three days.   The …

  In the capital of Ogun State, Abeokuta, a gardener at one of the private institutions has been arrested on suspicion of cult membership and weapons possession.     Emmanuel Victor, a 32-year-old gardener, and his five other conspirators were also apprehended. The So-Safe Corps identified them as some of …