CRIME
ICYMI: Teacher stabs ex-lover to death days to his marriage
A teacher at a private primary school in Lagos, Jacinta Igboke, is being held in police custody for the murder of her estranged lover, Arinze Ani. Igboke reportedly stabbed Ani to death on Tuesday during an altercation at his shop on Old Ojo Road, Satellite Town area of the state. City Round learnt that Ani, who traded in soap chemicals, was...
I was paid only N210k to use LASU undergraduate for money rituals – Cherubim Pastor
The self-acclaimed pastor of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Solution Chapel, Ikoyi-Ile, Osun State, Segun Philips, said he was paid N210,000 to use the final year student of the Lagos State University, Favour Daley-Oladele for money rituals. His action was after Favour’s boyfriend, Owolabi Adeeko, had smashed her head with a pestle. The pastor confessed that he was the one, who...
‘I only did one round’, says Fulani herdsman who raped 54-year-old Ebonyi woman to death
A suspected herdsman, Laulo Isa, 20, who reportedly raped a 54-year-old woman, Mrs Mary Okereke, to death, said alcohol and anger pushed him into committing the crime. The suspect stated this after he was paraded by the Ebonyi State Police Command, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital, on Tuesday. He allegedly raped Okereke to death in Ugwulangwu community, Ohaozara Local Government Area of...
NSCDC official detained for defiling 7-year-old girl
An official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp, Sani Yahaya, has been arrested for allegedly defiling a seven-year-old girl. Yahaya was arrested by the corps following a complaint lodged against him by the father of the girl, who reported the matter at the NSCDC office in Gusau. Narrating the ordeal to our reporter, the father of the girl said...
Police Sergeant, Akanbi Shot Man Dead At Wizkid’s Concert
A police sergeant, Lukmon Akanbi, has been arrested for shooting dead one Ramon Babatunde Adeniji, 39, around Eko Atlantic area of Victoria Island, Lagos. Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, ordered his arrest. The incident happened on Friday at about 04:20am around Eko Atlantic Victoria Island, Lagos. According to Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, there was a fracas...
Tragedy: RCCG Pastor, 2 Children Die on Christmas Eve
A Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor at the Open Heavens group based in Charlton, south-east London, Gabriel Diya, and and his two children, died at a swimming pool in the Costa del Sol, in the south of Spain on Christmas eve. But the hotel where the incident took place described it as “tragic accident”. It was gathered that the...
BREAKING: Court Denies Sen. Kalu Bail
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Monday dismissed the bail request by jailed former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, pending his appeal of a 12 year sentence passed on him early December. The court ruled that the application for bail lacked merit. The judge said he should remain in the prison custody pending the decision of...
Buhari inaugurates police data centre and electronic surveillance vehicles
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, inaugurated the National Command and Control Centre as well as the first phase of the Nigeria Police Crime and Incident Database Centre at the force headquarters, Abuja. He also launched electronic surveillance vehicles and civil disorder management trucks acquired by the police to strengthen their crime-fighting capacity. Buhari commended the force for investing in technologies to...
BREAKING: FORMER PRESIDENT SENTENCED TO DEATH
A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to death on charges of high treason and subverting the constitution. Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup and later ruled as president, is expected to challenge the order. “Pervez Musharraf has been found guilty of Article 6 for violation of the constitution of Pakistan,” Reuters quotes a government...
Newly Married Couples Allegedly Commit Suicide Over Wedding Debt
Two families in Kisumu are mourning their two children who together committed suicide 4 days after their beautiful wedding. According to Sources, the newly married couples allegedly killed themselves because of the huge debt they incurred after their wedding. Mr. & Mrs. Odipo left a note that they were stressed & strained because the beautiful wedding they had, left them with...
