The Katsina State Police Command has arrested a 25-year-old housewife, Rabi’a Labaran, suspected of the murder of her co-wife, Zainab Lawal, 30, following a violent domestic altercation in Daura town, Katsina North. The tragic incident occurred in the late hours of Saturday, May 24, 2025, behind Dadi Primary school in the Sabon Gari Area of [&...
•Ahenjir Emmanuella A 400-level student at Kwararafa University, Wukari in Taraba State, Ahenjir Emmanuella, has been allegedly killed by a stray bullet fired by a police officer during a stop-and-search operation in Makurdi, the Benue State capital. The incident was said to have occurred around 8am yesterday at the Wurukum roundabout, where o...
•Cultists Two graduates of the Niger Delta University, Amassoma, have been hacked to death by suspected cultists at the Gbarantoru community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. One of the victims was identified as Ayaokpo Sinclair from Tombia community, while the identity of the second victim had yet to be confirmed as of [&hell...
An 18-year-old woman, Saudat Jibril, has been arrested by the Kano State Police Command for allegedly killing her husband, Salisu Idris, in the early hours of yesterday. The incident, which took place in Farawa Quarters, involved the use of a sharp knife, with the victim sustaining fatal injuries to the throat, reports Channels TV. The [&helli...
A 20-year-old man, Muhammad Salisu, had allegedly killed his father, Salisu Abubakar, with a machete in the Gwaram Local Government Area of Jigawa State. Confirming the incident in a statement made available to journalists in Dutse, the state capital yesterday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Shi’isu Adam, said the incident occurred...
•Late Isa Muhammad Wabi A former chairman of the Jama’are Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Isa Wabi, has been killed in a violent attack allegedly carried out by acquaintances of his son. According to a statement released by the Bauchi State Police Command, the incident occurred in the early hours of today in his […]
•Late Bamise and Andrew Ominikoron The Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square has convicted and sentenced to death, a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Ominikoron, for the murder of a 22-year-old fashion designer, Bamise Ayanwola. In a judgment that lasted over two and half hours, Justice Serifat Sonaike held that the [&hell...
•Nwachukwu and late wife Osinachi Justice Njideka Nwosu-Iheme of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, has sentenced the husband of late gospel singer, Osinachi, Peter Nwachukwu, to death by hanging. Justice Nwosu-Iheme found him guilty of culpable homicide resulting in the death of the deceased on April 8, 2022,...
•Rotimi Amaechi and Goodluck Jonathan Former governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, was a guest speaker at the ninth edition of Akinjide Adeosun Foundation, AAF, Annual Leadership Discourse organised in Lagos. Speaking on the theme: ‘Fearless Leadership: A Panacea for Sustainable Development,’ the former Minister of Transportation discussed...
A Kano State High Court, today, sentenced one Salisu Idris, to death by hanging for burning a family of three. Idris, whose age was not provided, lives at Gayawa Quarters, Gaya Local government area in Kano state, reports NAN. He was charged with abetment and culpable homicide. Delivering judgment, Justice Amina Adamu-Aliyu, held that the [&he...
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