Lagos Govt intervenes after alleged threats against widow, arrests suspect
By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Lagos State Government has intervened in the case of a 28-year-old widow, Tosin, who allegedly faced threats, intimidation and attempts to dispossess her of her late husband’s property eight days after his death. The intervention followed a viral video shared on Tuesday by activist Harrison Gwamnishu on his X handle, in […]
Court sentences woman to death for killing rival, 7 children
By Peter Okutu State High Court sitting in Abakaliki, yesterday sentenced a woman, Mrs Agnes Nwefuru, to death by hanging for killing her co-wife and seven children in Ebony State. The Plaintiff, Ebonyi State Government had in a suit no.HAW/13C/2017, brought against the defendant, Agnes Nwefuru, accused her of setting ablaze the House of her […]
Civil defence arrests Fulani herdsman for allegedly destroying 5-acre farm in Oyo
Ola Ajayi – Ibadan IN order to avert another herders-farmers clash in Oyo, a Fulani herder, Ali Manu, has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Oyo State Command for allegedly leading 100 cows to a five-acre cassava farm at Abidioke Village in Ibarapa North Local Government Area and destroyed it. […]
Court sentences woman by hanging for killing co-wife, 7 children in Ebonyi
By Peter Okutu – Abakaliki State High Court sitting in Abakaliki, Monday sentenced a woman, Mrs Agnes Nwefuru, to death by hanging for killing her co-wife and seven children in Ebony state. The plaintiff, Ebonyi State Government had in a suit no.HAW/13C/2017, brought against the defendant, Agnes Nwefuru, accused her of setting ablaze the house […]
Chairmanship Tussle: Judge urges Ekiti monarchs to resolve out of court
By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti A State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti on Monday advised parties to the suit over the tussle on the chairmanship position of the state council of traditional rulers to resolve all issues in the overall interest of peace in the state. Governor Kayode Fayemi had appointed the Alawe of Ilawe-Ekiti, […]
Judge accused of having threesome in her chambers with lawyers
A Female judge has been accused of using her courtroom to have group sex with lawyers. Judge Dawn Gentry, 38, from Kentucky, US, is also alleged to have pressurised lawyers into having threesomes with her and her ex-pastor lover. Those lawyers who refused her requests were then not given preferential treatment in their cases, it […]
ICPC arraigns Gov Ortom’s aide, ex-commissioner over N4.7bn
The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) has arraigned an aide of Benue state governor, Samuel Ioraer Ortom along with another before Justice S.O Itodo in Benue State High Court, Makurdi, Benue State. The aide, Stephen Amase, Principal Private Secretary to Governor Ortom was arraigned along with Mr Manger T Emmanuel, a former Commissioner of Works […]
Herdsman: We need justice, wife of Ogun slain farmer cries out
James Ogunnaike – Abeokuta The family of the 35-year-old Segun Akinlade, who was allegedly killed by a herdsman, Muhammed Garba in Imala; an agrarian community in Abeokuta North local government area of Ogun State has appealed to the authority of the Nigeria Police and the Ogun State government to ensure that the alleged killer does […]
19-year-old Yahoo boy sets girlfriend ablaze over another lover
Operatives of Iba Police Station have arrested a 19-year-old boy, Orji Ifeanyichukwu for allegedly setting his 24-year-old girlfriend, Alabi Tolani ablaze because she had another lover. DSP Bala Elkana, Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, said this in a statement released to newsmen on Sunday. Elkana said that the incident took place at G54, Army […]
Herdsman kills farmer who catapulted him
A farmer in Ogun State has been killed after attacking a herdsman who was grazing cattle on his newly cleared land. Segun Akinlade, the farmer according to report is a 35-year-old man who visited his farm and was infuriated when he saw a herdsman, Muhammad Garba, with cattle on the farmland. To scare him off, […]
Police nab man for allegedly killing neighbour with Dane gun in Niger
The Police in Niger has arrested one Mohammed Isa, 27, of Dogon Ruwa village of Bosso Local Government Area of the state, for allegedly shooting and killing his neighbour, Umaru Abubakar, 30, with a Dane gun. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Usman Adamu, disclosed this to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna […]
