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.
A medical doctor and owner of Martins Hospital in Sagamu, Ogun State, Dr Babatunde Onamusi-Martins, has been accused of detaining a woman that was just delivered of babies, identified only as Aina, in his facility for three months over hospital bills.
There was an uneasy calm at Hassan Abiodun Street off Ojodu Berger in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State on Friday when residents of a storey building woke up to the death of two lovers in an apartment in the building.
A notorious armed robber suspect in Rivers State, Ogadinma Amadi, has said that he became an unrepentant criminal because he was looking for money for the treatment of his mother currently suffering from stroke.
The Imo State Police Command has apprehended a 19-year old girl, Chidimma Nwoke and a 40-year-old bus driver with Peace Mass Transport Company, Samuel Nkemjika for allegedly taking part in kidnapping and armed robbery activities.
Detectives from Apo Divisional Police Station, Abuja have tracked down and arrested a taxi driver, Sikiru Lamidi, who allegedly murdered a former Nigerian ambassador to South Africa, Ngam Nwachukwu, on November 24, last year.
Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps in Nasarawa State have arrested an alleged fake medical doctor, Jonathan Sidi-Ibrahim, for allegedly infecting a six-year-old boy with HIV.