Reading Time: < 1 minutes The police in Lagos have arrested the wife of a hotel owner and three others after she was alleged to have stabbed her hotelier husband to death. The wife of the owner of the popular Bama Hotel and Suites, Abule-Egba, allegedly stabbed her husband on Monday night after finding out that he had impregnated another Read More…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed the nation’s condolences to the family of the five-year-old school girl, Hanifa Abubakar, whose body was discovered in a shallow grave in Kano after nearly two months of fruitless search. The president, in a statement on Friday in Abuja by his media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, also praised the work Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Image Credits: REUTERS/Marco Bello. Jan 7 (Reuters) – A Georgia judge sentenced Travis McMichael and his father Gregory McMichael on Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for what he called the “chilling” 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man running through their mostly white neighborhood in the southern U.S. state. Read More…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Lagos, Nov. 16, 2021 (NAN) The security guard at the apartment where Mr Usifo Ataga, Super TV Chief Executive Officer, was allegedly murdered, on Tuesday said he was the person who discovered the corpse of the victim. The security guard, Abubakar Mohammed, said this while testifying before a Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Read More…
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Dane, Peter Nielsen, charged with murder of his Nigerian wife and daughter, on Tuesday said that he woke up one morning and found them dead on their kitchen floor. Nielsen testified before a Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square. Nielsen said he watched a football match together with his wife and was Read More…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Following defence counsels’ complaints on Tuesday that the statements and audio served on them were illegible and inaudible, the trial judge in the Michael Usifo Ataga murder case, Justice Yetunde Adesanya directed the prosecution to make available clear proofs of evidence to the defence before the end of day. The complaint by the defence counsel Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes A 23-year-old chef on Tuesday entered a plea bargain, pleaded guilty to murder and escaped the hangman’s noose. Instead, an Ikeja Special Offences Court sentenced a 23-year-old chef, Joshua Usulor, to 28 years imprisonment for killing a 34-year-old lawyer, Mrs Feyisayo Obot. According to the prosecution, the chef killed the lawyer on 26th January 2019, Read More…
Reading Time: 4 minutes There has been growing public outrage as Chidinma, the self-confessed killer of Michael Usifo Ataga, Super TV CEO, has been singing a new song. Chidinma Ojukwu had come out to deny her previous statements in an interview with Dr Aisha Tosan Agberebi as anchor, for the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) sponsored program Crime Fighters: Case Read More…
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Image Credits: REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo. President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed outrage and disgust over what he called “the heinous murder“ of Adamawa politician Ahmed Gulak in Owerri by yet to be identified gunmen. The president reacted on Sunday in a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu. “I Read More…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Image Credits: Daily Sabah, Vanguard. …evaluates files of 229 arrested The Lagos State Ministry of Justice has arrested 229 suspects that allegedly took part in the mayhem in Lagos State in the aftermath of the Lekki Toll Plaza incident on Tuesday night. The ministry said in a statement said that it would prosecute suspects that Read More…
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