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Four policemen attached to Ijanikin division in the Lagos state police command have been arrested for allegedly robbing one Theodore Ifunnaya of 350,000 CFA (about N221,508). Chike Oti, police spokesman in…

Policemen attached to Ilasamaja division have arrested two suspected members of a robbery syndicate that specialised in attacking customers, who had gone to withdraw money from banks at Sadiku/ Ilasamaja, along the Oshodi-Apapa…

Enugu State Police Command has commenced investigation into the alleged murder of a 58-year-old woman by her daughter. The Command’s spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said that the 34-year-old woman allegedly hacked…

A fake AIG who had 11 ATM cards, 10 cheque books on him, has been arrested at a bank in Kubwa, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory. Olawale Olatunji, the 59-year-old man posing as a retired Assistant Inspector-General…

A 35-year-old man, Seun Okwuyigbo, who police accused of beating and injuring his mother-in-law in the eye was arraigned in an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos on Wednesday. The police charged Okwuyigbo with…

Zone 2 Police Command in Lagos on Tuesday said that it had arrested an 85-year old man and four others for being in possession of human heart and other body parts. Mr Lawal Shehu, Assistant Inspector-General of…

An Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Tuesday dissolved the marriage of a woman who claimed that her husband regarded her as performing less in bed than his girlfriends.The Court President, Mr. Adeniyi Koledoye, held that although…

Commercial sex workers in Abraka community in Delta State on Monday blamed the current low patronage in their sex trade on the crack down on ritualists including ‘Yahoo, Yahoo boys’ in the state by the police. The…

Osofo Maame Nketia, the wife of late Reverend George Akwasi Nketia of Heirs church at Bubuashie in Accra disrupted the church’s Sunday service in a bid to claim ownership of the church.Adom News reported that a pastor was…

Two female robbers in Anambra State have been arrested by the Police after they engaged them in a gun battle in a hotel in Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state.According to Southern City News, the robbers locked…

A man reportedly set himself ablaze in Abia State, after butchering his wife over an alleged misunderstanding they had. Though what led to the sad incident is not known, however eyewitnesses disclosed that the man who set him himself…

A kidnap gang member who alongside his colleagues abducted one Abubakar Umar of Auna Magma Local Government Area of Niger state, have landed in police net over N13.4m ransom. The suspect identified as Muktar Abubakar (24) who…

Employees at a courthouse in India had a fright on Friday after a young leopard was spotted prowling around the building, authorities said.“Seeing the leopard the court staff ran out of the room and locked it from outside and…

Zimbabwean man has discovered that his four-year-old son is not actually his but that of his wife’s lecturer.According to iHarare, Lovemore Mlambo had always suspected that the boy wasn’t his son, because he didn’t bear any…

A self-confessed commercial sex worker in Umunede, Ika North Local Government Area of Delta State has alleged that her clients stole her four-year-old son after a sex romp with him. The woman (name withheld) revealed how…

One Johnson Okon, aged 58, has been accused of defiling his 14-year-old daughter. Edgal Imohimi, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, stated this on Tuesday, at a press conference highlighting the activities of the command.…

….hangs self, chases wife away, sets house ablaze It was a horrifying scene Tuesday at Alesa, near Port Harcourt, in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, as a man killed his four sleeping children, after chasing his…

The Assistant Pastor of the Anointed Chosen Vessel Ministry, Okota, Lagos, Mike Oliseh, has been detained at the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, for allegedly defiling the 12-year-old twin daughters…

A Kenyan woman, Rukia Wasuna, 26, on Monday, killed herself along with her two children by setting her home on fire after she learnt that her husband wanted to marry a second wife.According to Citizentv, Wasuna locked her two…

An herbalist, Amos Sulaimon, arrested alongside his client Supo Bamidele in Osun State, has told newsmen that he told his client to bring a human head and wrists in order to discourage him from engaging in money ritual. Sulaimon, who was…

A house wife, Mojisola Ojodu, has told the Customary Court sitting in Ake, Abeokuta, Ogun State, that if the court failed to dissolve her marriage to Ganiu Ojodu, she might end up killing him. Mojisola, who…

The Appeal Court sitting in Benin, the Edo State capital has ordered that two brothers convicted for the murder of an eight-year child are to face fresh trial for the same offense. Already, the two siblings had spent 23 years in…

A secondary school student at the Ado Grammar School, Ado Ekiti, Mathew Favour, died on Thursday following injuries he sustained in a superiority contest with a colleague on the efficacy of their charms. Sources…

In a spine-chilling incident that shook the village, a self-styled faith healer choked her nine-year-old sister to death by placing fingers into her mouth and rigorously shaking her head, purportedly to exorcise her…