•Man on the mast Police authorities in Abuja have arrested a man who attempted suicide as a protest over the country’s biting socio-economic hardship. The man identified as Shuaibu Alhaji Yushau had earlier yesterday climbed a 120ft mast at ASO Radio in the Katampe area of the nation’s capital, threatening to take his life, reports […]...
•Photo of a poisonous snake If you, a man, were bitten by a snake as you slept, what would your first reaction be? To scream? Dive out of bed? Run? Santosh Lohar had a different reaction and bit the snake to death in retaliation, reports MailOnline UK. The 35-year-old from Panduka, Kharkhand in India, had […]
A Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court today sentenced a 72-year-old security guard, David Jackson, to life imprisonment for defiling a 7-year-old neighbour’s daughter. Justice Abiola Soladoye sentenced Jackson to life imprisonment after she held that the prosecution had proved the three ingredients of defilement against the...
•Screenshot of the man on the mast A yet-to-be-identified man has climbed a broadcast mast on Katampe Hill in Abuja, threatening to jump unless his demands for the restoration of fuel subsidies and an end to insecurity are met. He also called on Nigerians to join the protest in a letter he left behind. … […]
•Gunmen Armed robbers, today, unleashed mayhem on a man coming out of a new generation bank in Lokoja, Kogi State capital, and dispossessed him of yet-to-be-ascertained sum of money before they shot him dead. Eyewitness accounts stated that the armed robbers trailed the man from the bank up to Phase II, Lokongoma area in front […]
The Lagos State Police Command has said a yet-to-be identified 61-year-old man has lost his life after being electrocuted during the flood incident. Police spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the death in a post he shared on his X handle @benHundeyin yesterday. He said the incident happened during downpour in the Orile-Iganmu area of...
A court in Pakistan’s conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has sentenced a man(name withheld) to life imprisonment for raping and kidnapping his underage wife, the victim’s lawyer said today. “This is the first decision of its kind in the province,” the lawyer, Mian Safeer, said. The decision was announced by a court that deals with cases ...
A 51-year-old indigene of Isuofia in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, Unegbu Chika, has been arrested for defiling his 14-year-old domestic help. The suspect was apprehended by security operatives yesterday, after a whistleblower drew the attention of the state Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare, to his observations abo...
A police officer has allegedly shot a man dead in the Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. The incident happened on June 23 at Echara Road in Nsukka, according to police authorities in the South-East state. Confirming the incident in a statement yesterday, the Enugu Police Public Relations Officer, Daniel Ndukwe, said the Commissioner ...
•Police A 23-year-old scavenger simply identified as Nura was reportedly manhandled by a mob for allegedly stealing a pot of rice at Kango community in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). A resident of Kango, Ayuba Iliya, said the incident happened on Tuesday around 11:23am when the scavenger allegedly took away the [&hel...
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