A Kano State High Court sitting on Miller Road and presided over by Justice Maryam Sabo has sentenced one Aminu Muhammad to death by hanging for the gruesome murder of a three-year-old girl, Rafi’atu Junaidu, in 2018. The judgment, delivered by Justice Sabo, brings to a close a protracted legal battle that began seven years […]
•Ryland Headley A 92-year-old man has been found guilty of the rape and murder of a Bristol woman in a case that remained unsolved for nearly six decades. DNA helped crack the rape case. Louisa Dunne, 75, was found strangled on her living room floor by a neighbour on Britannia Road in Easton, Bristol, on […]
•Late Lt. Commodore Buba The Kaduna State Police Command has said that 13 suspects have been arrested in Kawo area of Kaduna State where a naval officer, Lt. Commodore M. Buba, was murdered by a suspected phone snatcher yesterday. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Mansir Hassan, told our correspondent that the late officer, who [&hel...
Four persons have been sentenced to death by hanging by the Ebonyi State High Court, Ohaukwu Judicial Division after being found guilty of conspiracy and murder of 26- year-old Chinonso Elom. The murder of Elom popularly known as Oscar by the convicted persons occurred on February 5, 2023 in Ngbo community in the local government, […]
The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested five suspects linked to the abduction and gruesome murder of a one-year-old girl, Sakina Mamuda, in Duhun Bake village, Gwarzo Local Government Area of Kano State. The development was confirmed yesterday by the Kano State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Haruna Isah Dederi, duri...
•Late Augusta Osedion and killer Killaboi The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has successfully completed the extradition of Benjamin Best Nnayereugo, known as “Killaboi,” from Doha, Qatar to Nigeria to face murder charges. According to a statement by Police spokesman, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Nnayereugo who had been on the run for the murder of Miss ...
•Students protest Students in Ogun State staged a protest yesterday, blocking the Lagos-Ibadan expressway over the alleged abduction and murder of Quadri Adedamola Ogunbode, a 2024 Political Science/Education graduate of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo. The protest, which took place on the Mowe axis of the expressway, aimed to draw the ...
Three persons, including a Pastor, have been arrested over the alleged murder of a 2024 graduate of the University of Lagos (LASU), Adedamola Ogunbode. Those arrested were identified as Pastor Whepetoji Sunday, Sherrif Adebayo, a church member, and Omolara Ajisomo, reports Weekend Trust. Two brothers said to be members of the gang, Teniola Aji...
•Late Bamise Ayanwola Oluwabamise A Lagos State High Court in Tafawa Balewa Square has set May 2, 2025, as the date for delivering judgment in the trial of Andrew Ominikoron, a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver accused of raping and murdering his passenger, Bamise Ayanwola. Justice Sherifat Sonaike announced the decision after both the prosecutio...
The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, today, dismissed a suit that was brought against the federal government over the assassination of Mrs Kudirat, wife of the acclaimed winner of the 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola. The suit, marked: ECW/CCJ/APP/62/22 was brought before the Court by three...
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