Sunday, 23 October 2016

Mechanic burns daughter’s eyes, private parts with iron


The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a man, Surakat Idowu, for allegedly brutalising his five-year-old daughter with a hot iron in the Ikotun area of the state.

Man plans sister’s kidnap for being stingy, demands N300,000


A 27-year-old man, Chigozie Egegonye, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly planning the kidnap of his sister, identified only as Franca.

Saturday, 22 October 2016

NDLEA seizes N15m fake cough syrup


The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency in Adamawa State has seized a truck load of cough syrup worth N15m.

11-year-old boy convicted for raping sister


A 12-year-old boy who is believed to be Britain’s youngest ever rapist was convicted after he admitted to raping his younger sister twice when he was just 11-year-old.

The small boy carried out the sex attacks on his nine-year-old sister on two separate occasions while at their home in Plymouth, a court heard.

Foster mother cages girl in bush for five months


A 28-year-old woman identified as Mary Mathew has been arrested by the men of the Ondo State Police Command for child abuse.

The suspect allegedly caged her four-year-old foster daughter inside the bush for over five months at Imafon Village in Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State.

10-year-old girl rescued from Italy quake rubble after 17hrs


It took 17 hours and several firefighters to rescue a 10-year-old, Giulia, was from the rubble alive today after an earthquake struck central Italy Wednesday.

According to ABC news, as rescue workers raced to find survivors beneath the crumbled buildings in the town of Pescara del Tronto, about 100 miles northeast of Rome, they spotted Giulia’s legs and carefully removed wreckage around the trapped girl to get her out this morning.

My pastor husband fond of beating me, wife tells court


A housewife, Oluseyi Mark, on Thursday sought the dissolution of her five-year-old marriage to her estranged husband, Jonathan Mark, a pastor over alleged violence and long separation.

Man rapes 13-year-old IDP in Borno


The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Borno on Thursday said that it had arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly raping an Internally Displaced Person.

Friday, 21 October 2016

‘My husband abandoned me for refusing to abort pregnancy’


A 40-year-old housewife, Amudalat Afolabi, has told an Ilorin Area Court that her husband, Tajudeen, sent her packing because she refused to terminate a six-month-old pregnancy.

Grandma, 51, nabbed with heroin in Lagos


The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a grandmother, 51-year-old Monsurat Akinyemi at the Murtalla Muhammed International Airport, Lagos for being in possession of 180 grammes of heroin.

Woman spends four months trying to revive dead husband


Unable to cope with the death of her husband, a Russian woman reportedly spent at least four months trying to bring him back to life with the help of holy water and prayer.

Chickens forced to skip meals as cost of poultry feed rises by 100%


The recent increase in the cost of poultry feed in the country has been forcing farmers to ration food for their birds.

Findings have shown that the cost of ingredients for the composition of poultry feeds, particularly maize, has increased by 100 per cent.

I made N10, 000 daily for carrying robbers – Okada rider


Twenty-year-old Oluwole Sunday is not your average commercial motorcyclist.

In fact, the only thing “commercial” about his okada business is that while other okada riders transport members of the public from one point to another in the Lagos metropolis, he made his money by transporting robbers on their daily operations.

Doctors remove 40 knives from man’s stomach


A man in India spent two months swallowing knives and had 40 of them surgically removed from his stomach, according to the doctor who led the operation.

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Job seeker steals car in Lagos, arrested in Ondo


The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 28-year-old man, Dele Adeoye, for allegedly stealing a car from the roadside on Victoria Island.

Man returns home one year after being confirmed dead by family


An Indonesian family got the shock of their life after their husband and father, 62-year-old Waluyo, showed up at their doorstep one year after they thought they had buried him. He was pronounced dead on May 15, 2015, after supposedly being involved in a car accident.

Police arrest 20-year-old over Enugu herdsmen attack


The police in Enugu State on Friday evening said it had arrested a 20-year-old man over Thursday’s herdsmen attack in Attakwu community, where a Catholic seminarian was killed.

Mother, boyfriend, rape, set nine-year-old on fire


New Mexico police said they found charred body of a nine-year-old girl who had been raped, murdered and dismembered in an apartment.

Men, beware! Watching TV for hours can mar your fertility


From his favourite sports channels to movie channels, and sometimes news channels, watching television is one of the ways Emeka Okon, a civil servant, unwinds anytime he comes back from work. And on weekends, watching the TV is like a ritual for him.

Police arrest 29 robbery suspects, recover 12 cars


The police have arrested 29 suspects for alleged involvement in carjacking and stealing nationwide.

A statement on Friday in Abuja by the police spokesman, Donald Awunah, said 12 cars were recovered from the criminals.