A High Court sitting in Akamkpa, Cross River has sentenced Ayanime Udo to death by hanging for killing his twin daughters on allegation of being witches. Delivering judgment on the case with suit number HK/6C/2018, Justice Agnes Onyebueke said; “Udo’s act is satanic, demonic, and beyond human comprehension.’’ She...
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A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Spain on suspicion of shooting dead his parents and 10-year-old brother following a row over bad school grades, police said Saturday. The incident occurred on Tuesday evening in a rural area just outside Elche, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the southeastern...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Network of Civil Society Organisations, Borno State Chapter (NECSOB) has condemned in strong term the murder of 14 year old female IDP Aisha Umar, who was allegedly raped and stabbed to death by an NGO official, Huzaifa Adam in Maiduguri. The deceased, who...
Rodolphe Jaar, a key suspect in the murder of former Haitian President Jovenel Moise, was on Thursday extradited to the United States from the Dominican Republic, media reported. Earlier, media reported that Jaar, a Haitian businessman and convicted drug trafficker, was arrested in the Dominican Republic. On Wednesday, the...
A High Court in Lokoja has sentenced one Muritala Dare to death by hanging. He was convicted of stabbing his colleague to death with a broken bottle. Justice Josiah Majebi, who presided over the case at High Court 2, Lokoja, found the accused guilty after considering his involvement in...
The Jigawa State Police Command says it is hunting for a 22-year-old man, who allegedly stabbed his elder brother to death in Sabuwar Takur area of Dutse. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Lawan Shiisu, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Dutse on...
The Police in Nasarawa State has arrested one, Ovye Yakubu, over alleged murder of his wife, Esther Aya, in their residence at Sabonpegi-Shabu community of Lafia. Ramhan Nansel, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, confirmed the arrest in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)...
The Lagos State Government has cleared five students and five employees of Dowen College accused of complicity in the death of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni. The state cleared them as well as the school following the Legal Advice of the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, Ms. Adetutu Oshinusi. The copy...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna + The Kaduna State Commissioner of Police (CP), Mudassiru Abdullahi has ordered a thorough investigation over the killing of a lawmaker in Kaduna. The police spokesman in the state, ASP Mohammed Jalige disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Kaduna. ASP Jalige said...
A Lagos High Court sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square, on Tuesday discharged and acquitted a woman, Christiana Odo, accused of stabbing her husband to death during a fight. Justice Yetunde Adesanya, discharged and acquitted the defendant after the evidence of self defence was established by the testimonies of the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the assassination of the Katsina State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Dr Rabe Nasir, by unknown gunmen on Thursday evening. President Buhari, in a statement by his media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, described the killing of the commissioner as...
The Saudi embassy in Paris said Tuesday that a Saudi national arrested as a suspect in the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has no connection with the case. French police earlier Tuesday arrested a man suspected of being a member of the hit squad that murdered Khashoggi at...
A Kenyan police officer on Tuesday shot dead six people, including his wife, and wounded two others before turning the gun on himself, police said. The rampage in the capital Nairobi triggered protests by angry residents who blocked the road with burning tyres. Police said the AK-47-rifle-wielding officer first...
An Ado Ekiti High Court on Monday sentenced 24-year-old Ebenezer Olorunleke to death by hanging for killing his own brother. Justice Bamidele Omotoso said the prosecution had discharged the burden on Olorunleke Ebenezer and established beyond reasonable doubt the defendant was guilty as charged. “The sentence of the count...
A man was charged Tuesday with killing his four children and mother-in-law over the weekend inside a home in the western U.S. State of California, authorities said. Germarcus Lamar David, 29, faces five counts of murder and three counts of assault on a child causing death, said the Los...
By OLA MODUPE, Abeokuta – The police authority in Ogun State have arrested a 78-year-old man, Moshood Habibu, for killing his visually impaired elder brother over a land dispute in Mowe in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state. The state’ police spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who revealed...
Justice Oyindamola Ogala of an Ikeja High Court on Wednesday told a couple, Fortune and Stephen Nwankwo, that they had a case to answer over the death of their housemaid, Ms Joy Adole. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ogala told the Nwankwos to open their defence...
By BABARA KALU, Enugu – The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a man and a pastor over the disappearance and murder for money ritual of the man’s seven-year-old son. The Police Public Relations Officer in Enugu State, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, said in a statement issued on Thursday in...