A Thirty-nine-year-old woman, Mrs. Omotayo Salawudeen, yesterday in Osogbo, Osun State capital, confessed to killing her husband, Alhaji Hakeem Salawudeen, after she had a bout of sexual intercourse with him.
A thirty-seven-year-old Ibadan business woman, Bukola Ogun, who confessed to have arranged her kidnap to fraudulently obtain large sum of money from her husband has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command.
A stray bullet allegedly from the shooting range of 2 Division Nigeria Army, Adekunle Fasuyi Cantonment, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital yesterday hit a four-year-old pupil of a nursery school.
Mrs. Mercy Adetokunbo Oluwaseyifunmi, residing at Ondo State, is at her wits’ end and almost broke down in tears as she narrated her ordeal to The Guardian. The mother of three has been languishing in police custody for two weeks for allegedly stealing her daughter and trafficking her to the United Kingdom.
There was anxiety yesterday in Rivers State following the killing of two brothers from Rumuokparali Community in Obio/Akpor Local Council, who were beheaded.
An Ibadan Magistrate court has granted bail to 30-year-old man, Haruna Sule and his friend Abdulfatai Quadri, 30, who were yesterday arraigned before it over alleged attempt to sell a six-year-old boy in order to offset the cost of his mother’s burial.
A middle-aged man at the weekend reportedly set himself ablaze over an allegation of his wife’s infidelity at Owharen Street, Ovwian in Udu Local Council of Delta State.
The police in Enugu State yesterday said it was commencing investigations over the alleged involvement of an Enugu-based pastor in the kidnap of a 60-year-old woman in Umuopu, Enugu Ezike, Igboeze north Local Council of the state.
Residents of Ewuare street, off second federal road and environs in Benin city were this morning thrown into confusion following the death of a pregnant woman in her room.
An Asaba, Delta State Magistrate’s Court yesterday sentenced Mr. Onyemaechi Alor to 11 years imprisonment without any option of fine for conspiracy and child theft.
The Anioma regional headquarters of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Boji-Owa, Ika North East Local Council of Delta State was on Sunday, July 2, 2017 filled to capacity as family members, friends and well wishers of Samuel Anayo John Obute joined him in offering special thanksgiving to God
For allegedly conspiring and forging the will of one late Chief Bernard Ogbolumani, a popular Asaba-based legal practitioner, Mr. Emeka Okonkwo and an Anglican Church clergyman, Rev. Samuel Azuka Ogbolumani and three others were at the weekend remanded in Ogwashi-Uku Prisons by the order of a Federal High Court, Asaba, in Delta State.
Some yet to be identified gunmen at the weekend invaded an off-campus hostel at Ignatius Ajuru University, in Rumuolumeni, Obio/Akpor Local Council of Rivers State, robbing and raping students and residents in the area.
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.