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How I escaped assassin’s bullets in Gboko – Clergy

How I escaped assassin’s bullets in Gboko – Clergy

THe General Secretary of the NKST Synod, Rev. Peter Azuana was yesterday rescued from the jaws of death by officers of the Benue State Police Command after he was attacked by a four-man armed gang at Gboko, Benue State.

Callouse – How pregnant woman poisoned rival’s son with chemical

Callouse – How pregnant woman poisoned rival’s son with chemical

EXCEPT by legal abracadabra, Chinonye Lucky, a 26 -year- old mother of two who is also expecting her third child, may spend the rest of her life behind bars for a first degree murder. She is currently at the custody of the homicide department of the Edo state Police command, Benin city, where detectives are already putting finishing touches to her cases file. She is due for arraignment any moment from now for allegedly poisoning a 16- month-old baby boy with a killer chemical while the mother of the baby was away to fetch water.

Man, 56 committed to prison custody for sexually assaulting 3-yr-old girl

Man, 56 committed to prison custody for sexually assaulting 3-yr-old girl

A SURULERE Magistrate Court sitting in Lagos has remanded a 56-year old man (names withheld) in Kirikiri prison for allegedly inserting his fingers into the private part of a three-year old girl. Both the man said to be a grandfather and the little live in the same block in Masha area of Surulere.

Reign of terror at Oshodi/Shogunle in Lagos

Reign of terror at Oshodi/Shogunle in Lagos

THE increasing rate of criminal activities in Mafoluku/Oshodi and Shogunle areas of Lagos State is taken a new dimension. It has heightened the fears of the residents as different criminal activities ranging from robbery, theft and vandalisation of cables of Power Holding Company, Nigeria, PHCN, and nocturnal attacks by hoodlums popularly called area boys, have resurfaced.

Terror in Ngwaland: Indigenes accuse  sons of ruler

Terror in Ngwaland: Indigenes accuse sons of ruler

WHEN Amanna Anaba, a native of Abayi Autonomous Community in Isiala-Ngwa North Local Government Area of Abia State, decided to celebrate the Easter festival in his home town with other members of his family, he had no inkling that it could turn out a bloody one for him.

How recharge card bandits met their Waterloo

How recharge card bandits met their Waterloo

A popular dealer on recharge cards in Ikotun area of Lagos State, Mrs. Dorcas Nzeribe, did not bargain for the fate that befell her penultimate Tuesday when she fell into the hands of a four-man robbery gang that specialize in terrorizing her colleagues.

‘Our weapons are stored inside commercial bus’

‘Our weapons are stored inside commercial bus’

THEY are eleven in number, of different ages, sizes, complexion and tribes. But they have one thing in common: robbery! However, four suspected members of the 11-man notorious gang that have been terrorizing Lagos State, leaving in their trail, the death of policemen. Innocent and unsuspecting members of the public have reportedly been killed in their separate gun duels with policemen.

Two bank guards remanded in prison custody for robbery

Two bank guards remanded in prison custody for robbery

AN Igbosere Magistrate Court in Lagos has remanded two robbery suspects in prison custody pending the legal advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions, after they were arraigned for breaking into the vault of a bank in Apapa area of Lagos State.