Sunday 22 January 2017

India police arrest four over US woman’s gang-rape


Indian police on Monday arrested four men accused of drugging and raping an American tourist at a five-star hotel in New Delhi earlier this year, an officer said.

The woman told police that she was part of a tour group visiting India in April when her local guide gave her a spiked bottle of water and raped her with four acquaintances inside her hotel room.

23-year-old applicant bags three years over generator theft


An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday sentenced a 23-year-old unemployed, Fatai Obadeyi, to three years imprisonment for stealing generator valued at N60,000.

Chief Magistrate M.O. Osinbajo sentenced Obadeyi after he pleaded guilty to the charge.

A’Ibom police arrest woman for stealing baby


The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested a 30-year old woman, Peace Chukwuemeka, for stealing a month-old baby from her mother.

84-year-old herbalist, others to die by hanging


Justice Kudirat Akano of an Osun State High Court, Ilesa, on Tuesday sentenced an 84-year-old herbalist, Oluwafemi Fagbemi, to death by hanging for killing one Jacob Ajayi for money ritual.

Why I eloped with my husband, woman tells court


A housewife, Rasheedat Mudashiru, has told an Ilorin Area Court that she eloped with her husband, Taiwo, when her family withhold their consent in the marriage.