A police inspector who was allegedly involved in the shooting incident that killed a man in Ajah, Lagos, has been detained by the Police Command in Lagos State. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, a spokesman for the command, confirmed the arrest on his verified Twitter account on Wednesday. “At about 11:30 p.m on Tuesday, December 06, 2022, Read More…
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Ataga: Absence of prosecution witness delays murder trial
Due to the absence of a prosecution witness, the trial of undergraduate Chidinma Ojukwu for the murder of Super TV CEO Mr. Usifo Ataga was postponed on Tuesday. Ojukwu is on trial in front of the Tafawa Balewa Square-based Lagos High Court. Along with her sister Chioma Egbuchu and another person named Adedapo Quadri, she Read More…
US elected official arrested over death of investigative journalist
A Las Vegas-area elected public official has been arrested and identified by police as the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a veteran newspaper reporter whose investigations of the official’s work preceded his primary loss in June. Clark County Public Administrator Robert “Rob” Telles, a Democrat, was taken into custody at his home by a Read More…
Wife, 3 others arrested over hotelier’s death in Lagos
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…
Buhari mourns murdered 5-year-old Hanifa, lauds arrest of culprits
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…
US: Three Georgia men sentenced to life in prison for ‘chilling’ Arbery murder
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. Judge Timothy Walmsley also Read More…
Security guard tells how he discovered Ataga’s body
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…
Banana Island murder: Danish man tells court he and wife were intimate before her death
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…
In Ataga murder case, illegible statements, inaudible audio cause adjournment of Chidinma’s trial
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…
Chef jailed 28 years for lawyer’s murder after guilty plea
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…