Son sets mother ablaze over witchcraft allegations in C’River
By Ike Uchechukwu, Calabar CALABAR — A middle-aged man, identified as Emmanuel Akposi, has been declared wanted after allegedly dousing his elderly mother with fuel and setting her ablaze at Ojo community in Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State. The victim, identified by family sources as Mrs Atim Akposi, also known as Atim […]
EKSU student stabbed boyfriend to death over N2,500
By Rasheed Sobowale The Ekiti State University (EKSU) on Wednesday was awed at the news of a female student who allegedly stabbed her boyfriend to death at a hotel in Iworoko-Ekiti area of the state. The news which was reported by a Nigerian News Media stated that Bukola Odeyemi (the girlfriend) stabbed her boyfriend, John […]
‘Gold-eating rooster ate my earring’
A gold-eating rooster in Ethiopia has been slaughtered and is likely to provide a New Year’s feast for the woman who was forced to buy him to recover an earring. Ethiopia celebrated its New Year, 2012 on Thursday September 12. Hachaltu Bedira had gone to the market in Woliso, Oromia state, to sell chickens – […]
Japanese clerk allegedly scams 1300 customers by memorising their credit cards numbers
Instead of developing an intricate electronic card skimmer, or pulling off an elaborate online scam, a cashier in Japan used the most undetectable tool imaginable to steal the credit card info of over 1,300 customers: his immaculate and instant photographic memory. Yusuke Taniguchi, a 34-year-old part-time cashier working at a mall in Koto City, Japan, […]
EFCC arrests Ponzi scheme masterminds in Kano
By Soni Daniel – Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested the duo of Garba Iliyasu and Umar Iliyasu who are alleged to be running a Ponzi scheme in Kano under the name, MGB Global Market. The EFCC arrest was sequel to intelligence that the organisation had lured many citizens to ‘invest’ […]
Police hunt for father who beat 4-yr-old ‘witch kid’ to death
WHY four-year-old girl, Testimony Toke Babalola, was reportedly whipped to death by her parents in Akure, Ondo State capital few weeks ago has been unravelled.
Breaking: Thunderbolt strikes boy to death in Ekiti
A secondary school boy has been struck to death by thunderbolt in Emure Ekiti.
Borno: Local govt cashier kidnapped, N10m ransom demanded
BY Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri A local government official in Borno State has been abducted with his wife and a child. Sources said the official, Bukar Hassan, a cashier with Hawul Local Government was kidnapped along Buni Gari-Biu road. He was returning from Maiduguri after a visit on Wednesday afternoon when his abductors swooped on his […]
Husband angry, as wife sells child for N500,000 in Imo
By Chinonso Alozie, Owerri A woman whose name was given as Chinaza Ukaonu has been arrested by the Imo state police command alongside two nurses for allegedly selling her baby for N500,000. The Imo state police public Relation Officer, PPRO, Orlando Ikeokwu, who confirmed this yesterday in Owerri, said that the arrest of the woman […]
Fire guts Katangowa Market in Lagos
Properties worth miliions of naira have been destroyed in an early morning inferno, Monday, August 19, when raging fire gutted part of Katangowa Market, Super bus stop in Agbado-Okeodo, Local Council Development Area, LCDA, along Lagos Abeokuta Expressway, Lagos.
Many injured in Hausa/Yoruba clash in Lagos
Pandemonium broke out today, at Ilepo market, Oke-Odo, along the Lagos /Abeokuta expressway, following a clash between Hausa and Yoruba traders.
