Anxiety in Benue as criminal gang of late militia kingpin, Gana embark on killings, kidnapping
•Youths raise alarm, send SOS to IGP•Reports say 66 victims recorded so far By Ifeanyi Okolie There is anxiety in Benue state following the resurgence of massive killings and abductions by criminals suspected to be remnants of the dreaded gang members of late militia leader, Terwase Akwaza alias Gana. The bloodletting has gotten to the […]
NURTW chairman to die for killing Police officer
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, yesterday, sentenced the Aiyetoro Unit Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Saheed Arogundade to death by hanging for killing a police officer, Gbenga Oladipo.
Man jailed 21 years for defiling neighbour’s 6-yr-old daughter
Lagos—A Lagos State High Court, sitting in Igbosere, yesterday, sentenced a 37 years old trader Ahmed Ayanyemi, for raping his neighbour’s six-year-old daughter.
Woman beats boy to death for ‘stealing’ N6,500 her husband took
A 47-year-old woman, Mrs Joy Egeonu, has been arrested for beating her husband’s 11-year-old nephew to death, for allegedly stealing N6,500 in Agbado area of Ogun State.
l was under spell says guard that sodomised prophetess, stole her N700
Akure—A 39-year-old security guard, Longbab Bouguen, has confessed that he was under a spell when he raped a 43 year old prophetess in Agbogbo area of Akure the Ondo State capital.
500 ex-staff of Savannah Sugar Coy die awaiting benefits
YOLA—NO fewer than 500 of the 1,731 staff of Savannah Sugar Company, Numan, in Adamawa State have been confirmed dead while awaiting their benefits 17 years after their retrenchment following the privatisation of the organisation in 2002.
Police nab 2 for drugging, gang-raping undergraduate
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two men who allegedly drugged and gang-raped an undergraduate in a hotel in Lekki Phase 1, Lagos.
Cleric, 3 others arrested with human skull in Ogun
A 35-year-old cleric, Jamiu Olasheu, has been arrested alongside three others, for being in possession of a human skull.
3 sentenced to death for killing 400-Level student
Osogbo—The killers of a 400-level student of Microbiology at Osun State University, Timileyin Sonibare, were yesterday sentenced to death by Justice Kudirat Akano of an Osun State High Court, sitting in Osogbo, the state capital.
3 APC supporters killed in auto crash during campaign in Lagos
Tragedy struck, yesterday, at Festac Town, after three All Progressives Congress, APC, supporters lost their lives in an auto crash during the campaign tour of Senator Solomon Adeola, (APC Lagos West) Amuwo Odofin council and Oriade Local Council Development Area, in Lagos.
Court strikes out Evans’s N1bn suit against police, others
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday struck out a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwamadike (a.k.a Evans), against the police over seizure of his property.
