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A 19-year-old man, who was identified as Prince Chigozie, has reportedly committed suicide because he was denied some bananas by a relation of his. The incident took place in Mmakwum village, Obosi in the Idemili North Local…

An alleged rapist was caught by members of a community in Cameroon recently. Instead of reporting him to the police, they decided to return the favour. The men took turns to gang rape him. They took a video from the scene and shared…

Two robbery suspects, Hussaini Usman Dikko and Usman Umar, who were arrested by the Niger State Police Command claimed that Allah destined it. The robbery suspects who were reportedly robbing residents of Wawa, New Bussa, when they…

The family of a 27-year-old undergraduate student of the Lagos State Polytechnic, Abraham Enebeli, has demanded justice after he was allegedly stabbed by a soldier. PUNCH Metro learnt that Abraham was allegedly stabbed in the Ijegun area…

A thief who took his skill to the church was caught red-handed, while using a wire to steal from a tithe box. The thief who was caught stealing from the tithe box of St. Marks Anglican Church, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, uses wire with…

A Zimbabwean man has exposed his 19-year-old girlfriend after he allegedly discovered a love potion in her bag as well as a list of men, she planned to use it on. According to iHarare, the girl forgot her backpack in his car and he…

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) aspirant for the Abi/Yakkur Federal constituency, Jerome Egbe, has been abducted by gunmen in Calabar. An eyewitness, Cyprian Ido, said that the incident occurred on Thursday at about 11 a.m. at a…

A police sergeant has been killed by some youths suspected to be cult members at Emmanuel Olorunfemi and Oshunkeye streets in the Ifako-Ijaiye, Ogba area of Lagos State on Wednesday. According to Punch Metro, the irate youths were…

Gunmen suspected to be assassins shot paint manufacturer, Theo Mbakwe dead at Amaigbo, Nwangele Local Government Area of Imo State on Saturday and abducted a lady believed to be his girlfriend... The victim, UNIBEN alumni popularly known…

A 35-year-old man, Mr. Yinka Alabi, on Friday pleaded with an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court, Agodi, Ibadan, Oyo State, not to dissolve his marriage in spite of his wife admitting to being raped by another man. In his defence to a…

A power drunk Divisional Police Officer, DPO, in charge of the Pen Cinema Police Division, Lagos State, H.E. Nwabuisi, has done the unthinkable as he led a team to raid adherents in a mosque. H.E. Nwabuisi, has been accused of…

An Oke-Ogbere Customary Court in Ibadan on Thursday dissolved a three-year-old marriage between one Temilade Oyeyemi and her husband, Ayo Oyeyemi , over deception and adultery. The court’s president, Sulaiman Olaniyi, said, “In the…

People of Gure community in Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara were on Wednesday evening livid with hanger when corpses of two kids were strangely found in an uncompleted soak-away pit half filled with water in the town. The two…

A 35-year-old man, Haruna Ali, on Tuesday sued his father-in-law, Adamu Mai-Takaima, at a Sharia Court sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna, over alleged abduction of his wife.The complainant told the court that his wife, Hadiza Haruna, had…

A 28-year-old Uber driver, Sunday Omale, was on Tuesday arraigned before Magistrate E. Kubeinje of an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for allegedly refusing to pay a commercial sex worker. Omale, who resides at Alhaja Elesin…

A housewife identified as Harriet Nassali, has been arrested by the Ugandan police for reportedly beheading her husband, Siraje Kavuma, and digging a grave in their matrimonial bedroom with the intention of burying him. The lady who…

A 54-year-old, who claimed to be a professor of Animal Husbandry at the University of Ibadan, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command after he fraudulently collected N1m from a man under the pretext of manufacturing animal…

A man identified has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly raping a girl he met on Facebook. According to reports Ayo Salau colluded with another suspect, Richard Samuel Gbenga, who is on the run, to lure a…

A farmer, Segun Daniel, has allegedly killed his lover’s mother, Mrs Beatrice Lajuwomi, at a farm settlement in Igbotako, in the Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State. It was learnt that the 29-year-old farmer allegedly had a…

The Edo State Police Command has returned to a building contractor, Emmanuel Alabede, the N100,000 bribe collected from him by some policemen attached to the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the command. It was gathered that the state…

The police in Niger State have apprehended one Yusuf Duguri, 26, and Abubakar Adamu, 45, both of Gedi-Gedi area of Zaria Road,  Kano State, for alleged car theft. According to the police, the suspects approached one Umar Abdulazeez of…

A 17-year-old girl, Ramatu Tafida, has cut off the manhood of her 25-year-old boyfriend, Abdullahi Sabo, in Jigawa State. The spokesman of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence (NSCDC), Adamu Shehu, disclosed this in Dutse on…

A suspected kidnapper whose identity has yet to be confirmed by the Ondo State Police Command was still sleeping six days after he was taken to the police custody. The suspect was arrested by men of the command on Sunday as he and…

Medical workers at the Ondo State Neuro-Psychiatric Specialist Hospital, Akure, battled to resuscitate their Chief Medical Director, Dr. Akinwumi Akinloye, after he was viciously attacked by a patient admitted in the hospital. It was…