Tragedy struck yesterday at North Bank, close to Agro Millers in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, when two sisters, aged 10 and seven lost their lives in a fire incident around 4a.m. yesterday.
The parents of Mrs. Irene Dashit, a teacher allegedly strangled by her husband, Victor Dashit, in Dadin-Kowa, Jos on July 2, have returned the dowry paid on her head by her husband’s family.
In what better fits the description of melodrama, a suspected ritualist, was yesterday caught in the act, beaten by an irate mob and whisked off by policemen before he could be lynched to death in Asaba, Delta State.