By Chioma Joseph Felix Ezike, the 27-year-old fake Naval Rating, being detained at the State Criminal Investigations Department (SCID), Yaba, Lagos, for stabbing a 19-year-old boy, Deji Animashaun to death, has said anger triggered his action. Ezike, who until his arrest was always clad in military camouflage, had been impersonating a naval personnel at Ikotun […]
17-year-old Rocky Marciano Price has been jailed for life after being found guilty of the murder of a mother of two, Lindsay Birbeck. Birbeck, who died from neck injuries inflicted by either stamping or kicking or kneeling on the front of the neck, was buried in a shallow grave at a Lancashire cemetery. READ ALSO: […]
Many unresolved high-profile murders point to Nigeria as a failed state among other indices, according to its worried citizens. Worsening insecurity, political crises and economic dislocation have been dogging the country, taking it to the precipice. Decades after, many of the killings remain unravelled, especially in the South West region. In fact, ahead of the […]
On Tuesday afternoon, June 2, 2020, news filtered into the newsroom that operatives of the Edo State Police Command had arrested one of the four men suspected to have raped a 22-year old 100-level Microbiology student of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Miss Vera Omozuwa, in a church belonging to the Redeemed Christian Church of […]
*Assures that perpetrators will be brought to book The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has deployed additional investigation aids and forensic support to Edo state Police Command to unravel the circumstances surrounding the brutal rape and death of Miss Vera Uwaila Omosuwa. According to the police chief, the deployment was part of a deliberate […]
Ms. Funke Olakunrin was the daughter of pan-Yoruba socio-politicial organization, Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti. She was murdered July 12, 2019 between Kajola and Ore along Ondo-Ore Road in Ondo State. READ ALSO: Africa records 60 per cent increase in COVID-19 deaths – WHO She was believed to be murdered by Fulani herdsmen. Before her […]
Ado-Ekiti – A 40-year-old husband, Adebayo Oluwafemi, on Tuesday prayed an Ado-Ekiti Customary Court to dissolve his 11-year-old marriage to his wife, Funmilayo Oluwafemi, over alleged threat to life. Oluwafemi is seeking for dissolution of his marriage on grounds of threats to life, troublesomeness of his wife and lack of care for him by his […]
A notorious cultist and leader of the dreaded ‘Berry Boys’ confraternity, Maliki Bello, declared wanted by the Lagos state Police Command for murder and other crimes, has been arrested by operatives of the Itire Police Station. The 22-year-old suspect, who was arrested alongside 11 others, is said to be the mastermind of the many clashes […]
Lagos – An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Thursday ordered remand of a 17-year-old who allegedly stabbed another teenager to death. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs A.O. Komolafe ordered that the defendant should be kept at the Special Correctional Centre for Boys in Oregun, Lagos. The defendant, a resident of Agunfoye, Igbogbo, […]
An Australian policeman has been charged with murder over the shooting death of an Aboriginal teenager in a case that has drawn national attention. Kumanjayi Walker, 19, died after being arrested at a house in the Northern Territory (NT) on Saturday. READ ALSO: Impeachment: Democrats to begin First public hearings against Trump His death has […]
Abuja, Oct 8, 2019 (NAN) An FCT High Court in Maitama on Tuesday discharged a 29-year- old man, Matthew Ankyoor, charged with the murder of his eight months pregnant wife. CACOL lauds FG, EFCC for confiscating Abdulrasheed Maina’s properties over money laundering Delivering his ruling in a no-case-submission, Justice Peter Affen, held that the evidence […]
A nurse has admitted killing 100 patients at two hospitals in Germany. Niels Hoegel, 41, is said to have intentionally administered medical overdoses so he could attempt to impress colleagues by resuscitating the patients. He confessed on the first day of his trial for the murders, telling a court the charges against him were largely […]
Suge Knight, the founder of Deathrow Records has been sentenced to 28 years in jail for murder. The former record label exec accepted a plea bargain for less time for the 2015 incident. He was arrested for running over two people on the set of a shoot for the movie Straight Outta Compton. One man […]
Maryam Abiola, a 20 year old member of Eiye confraternity has confessed to been a serial assassin, killing four persons in the Ilasa area of Lagos. The susspect who was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command revealed that she was paid N10,00 to cary out each asaassination. Giving detailed insight into her sojourn, the […]
There was an uproar on Saturday in Wankya settlement of Zaki-Biam town, Ukum LGA of Benue State as gunmen suspected to be members of a wanted militia gang leader, Terwase Akwaza, otherwise known as Ghana, killed two persons and abducted another. It was gathered that the killers invaded the area around 11.30pm with guns and […]
An estate agent on trial for killing his wife after a lesbian affair claims she would ‘nearly always’ belittle the size of his penis and made him feel like he ‘wasn’t even a man’. David Clark, 49, is accused of knifing his South-African born wife Melanie, 44, in the chest before dialling 999 and admitting […]
Jodhpur rural police, has arrested a man who allegedly sacrificed his four-year-old daughter by slitting her throat on Saturday. Police superintendent (Jodhpur rural) Rajan Dushyant said the accused, whose name was given as Nawab Ali Qureshi – has confessed to the crime. “I am a Namazi and I love my child more than my own […]
Garba Isa, a member of a Kaduna Civilian JTF who is in the centre of the Murder case controversy against Senator Shehu Sani of one Lawan Maiduna has alleged that the Military forced him to implicate the Senator. Isa told newsmen in Kano, Thursday that, ” I was not in Kaduna but received calls […]
South Africa’s constitutional court has dismissed a bid by the paralympian Oscar Pistorius to appeal against his 13-year murder sentence. Pretoria’s High Court had sentenced the athlete to six years in prison in 2016, but this was increased to 13 years and five months last year. It was this final decision that Pistorius wanted to […]
Omoni Oboli has reacted to the murder of singer Alizee and her four year old daughter. The singer was allegedly murdered by her Danish husband, Peter Nielson. In her tribute to the late singer, the actress advised married women to stop tolerating domestic violence to stay away from such union as no marriage is worth […]