A rooster fitted with a knife for an illegal cockfight in southern India has killed its owner, sparking a manhunt for the organisers of the event, police said Saturday. The bird had a knife attached to its leg ready to take on an opponent when it inflicted serious injuries to the man’s groin as it […]

A female civil servant abducted by a four-man gang that seize unsuspecting car owners in Yenagoa has been rescued, whilst the abductors were trying to withdraw cash from her account on Friday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a Police team that rescued the victim arrested two members of the armed gang who […]

Lagos lawyer’s wife raises alarm over threat to life by husband, alleges infidelity, battery, neglect of their babies. Reacting, the husband said she lied and that it was the wife that threatened to kill him.

A 30-year-old woman, Mary Ole, who allegedly swindled her boyfriend of N9.5 million, on Friday appeared in an Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The police charged Ole with fraud and theft. The Prosecution Counsel, Cpl. Joy Okoro, told the court that the defendant committed the offence from Aug. 12, 2019, to June 22, 2020, in […]

Suspected armed bandits raided a school dormitory in Zamfara overnight, a teacher and parent told AFP on Friday, raising fears of another mass kidnapping in the Northern region. Bandits kidnap schoolgirls in Jangebe, Zamfara “More than 300 girls are unaccounted for after a headcount of remaining students,” said a teacher at the Government Girls Secondary […]