CRIME
How soldier allegedly shot policeman dead in Gwoza
The recent killing of a Mobile Police Officer attached to the Anti-Aircraft Gun (AAG) unit of the Nigeria Police Force by an Army corporal after an altercation in Makara Area of Gwoza Local Government Area (LGA), in Borno State has continued to attract outpouring of anger. The unnamed Army corporal extra-judicially killed Sergeant Rowland Tafida who was among the MOPOL...
Singer Iyanya charged with alleged car theft
Former Mavin artiste, Iyanya Mbuk, has been charged with alleged car theft by the Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU), in Ikoyi, Lagos State. He was on Tuesday taken to court and arraigned before Justice Okikiolu-Ighile of an Igbosere High Court, according to a report by The Nation. The prosecution counsel, Chukwu Agwu, alleged that the singer committed the offence sometime in...
Company guard killed while rescuing robbery victim
Residents of Adelabu Street in the Surulere area of Lagos State were thrown into confusion on Tuesday when the lifeless body of a security guard with the National Power Training Institute of Nigeria was found on the road. It was gathered that the guard, identified simply as Sule, was stabbed to death by suspected robbers. Our correspondent was told that Sule...
Man allegedly kills wife, buries her in shallow grave inside kitchen
A 30-year-old man, identified as Monday Uwem, has reportedly killed his 26-year-old wife, Blessing Menaboo, at Akpama, a satellite fishing settlement of Opu Okumbiri, Akassa in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. A community source told Vanguard that her remains were discovered in a shallow grave at the couple’s kitchen. The suspect, who is in police custody, was said to...
Wife beats husband up mercilessly over inability to impregnate her
A 32-year old housewife, Mrs Chinwendu Chita, has been arrested for turning her husband, Okechukwu Chita, into a punching bag in their matrimonial home in Lagos. Mrs Chinwendu claimed that she had been married to Okechukwu for some years, he had been unable to impregnate her and had not shown any commitment for them to have a child. The alleged incident...
Gov. El-Rufai Revokes Abacha Property’s C-Of-O Over Debt
The Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) of the Comatose Durbar Hotel believed to be owned by late Head of State General Sani Abacha has been revoked by Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State over the claims of owing ground rent for 19 years. This was disclosed by the Kaduna State Governor in a letter dated December 31, 2019 which...
Singer Iyanya charged with alleged car theft
Former Mavin artiste, Iyanya Mbuk, has been charged with alleged car theft by the Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU), in Ikoyi, Lagos State. He was on Tuesday taken to court and arraigned before Justice Okikiolu-Ighile of an Igbosere High Court, according to a report by The Nation. The prosecution counsel, Chukwu Agwu, alleged that the singer committed the offence sometime in...
Company guard killed while rescuing robbery victim
Residents of Adelabu Street in the Surulere area of Lagos State were thrown into confusion on Tuesday when the lifeless body of a security guard with the National Power Training Institute of Nigeria was found on the road. It was gathered that the guard, identified simply as Sule, was stabbed to death by suspected robbers. Our correspondent was told that Sule...
Wife beats husband up mercilessly over inability to impregnate her
A 32-year old housewife, Mrs Chinwendu Chita, has been arrested for turning her husband, Okechukwu Chita, into a punching bag in their matrimonial home in Lagos. Mrs Chinwendu claimed that she had been married to Okechukwu for some years, he had been unable to impregnate her and had not shown any commitment for them to have a child. The alleged incident...
Drug Lord Escobar’s Hitman Popeye Dies In Colombia
A notorious murderer who worked for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has died of stomach cancer, Colombian officials say. Jhon Jairo Velásquez, who boasted of killing 300 people for Escobar, was 57. Known as "Popeye", he was released from prison in 2014 after more than 20 years and launched a YouTube channel, attracting more than a million followers. But he was jailed...
