I was drugged, gang-raped in Lekki hotel – Lady tells court

24-year-old lady, (name withheld) on Wednesday narrated to an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how she was allegedly drugged by her friend at a nightclub and subsequently gang-raped in a hotel in Lekki, Lagos. According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the woman, the first prosecution witness, testified in the trial of two […]

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Chris Attoh’s wife shot to death was married to two men

A woman who was recently shot to death in a brazen daytime attack outside Washington was married to two men, authorities say. One is a well-known actor from west Africa. The other is a convicted cocaine trafficker who was described as a “major Baltimore drug dealer” before going to prison. Bettie Jenifer, 44, was gunned […]

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CBN says, leaked audio on N500 billion, authentic but selective

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Sunday scrambled a rebuttal to deny media reports that it lost over N500 billion after a private investment by some of its top officials went awry. Earlier Sahara Reporters had reported a telephone conversation involving the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele; his deputy, Edward Adamu; the Director of Finance, Dayo […]

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Ghanaian actor, Chris Attoh’s wife, Bettie Jennifer shot dead in US (Photos)

The wife of Ghanaian actor, Chris Attoh, has been shot dead. According to multiple reports, Bettie Jennifer was killed by an unknwon gunman while leaving her office in Maryland in the United States of America on Friday evening May 10, at about 5pm. The Ghanaian actor’s wife was found dead in front of her office […]

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Police find 4 bodies inside septic tank in Nigeria

Detectives attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Lagos State Command, have recovered bodies of four people in a sceptic tank at Ikorodu. The detectives were investigating the death of two bureau de change operators when they stumbled on the bodies. It was learnt that when the police recovered the bodies of the bureau de […]

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As foreplay went awry, man allegedly beats wife to death

Things allegedly went ugly between a young couple in the course of lovemaking. As reported by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), 31-year-old Godspower Johnson allegedly beat his wife to death during a fight over sex. The prosecutor, Insp. Oladele Adebayo, told an Ebute Metta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Friday that the defendant committed the […]

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Pastor killed NNPC engineer after impregnating his wife, sentenced to death (Photos)

Details of how a pastor killed an engineer working with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Benin, Edo State have been revealed by the court. The details emerged after the Edo State High Court sentenced Pastor Udoka Ukachukwu and his mistress Eniobong Isonguyo, a mother of three, to death for the murder of her […]

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Sharia court to cut off hands, legs of 10 people, stone 5 to death in Nigeria

The Controller of Prisons, Bauchi State Command, Suleiman T. Suleiman has said that five persons who were sentenced to death-by-stoning; and 10 others whose legs and hands are to be amputated are awaiting the day of judgment. Suleiman, who spoke in an interview with newsmen in his office on Tuesday on the state of prison […]

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Woman collapses as she was sentenced to death by Lagos high court (Photo)

A Lagos high court sitting at Ikeja, on Tuesday, sentenced a 36-year-old woman, Stella Gilbert, to death for stabbing her neighbour, Mrs Stella Godwin, to death during a fight at their residence in Ajegunle, Lagos state. The convict stabbed the deceased on the chest and arm with a knife during a fight. Murder contravenes Section […]

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Angry Ghanaians terribly dealt with a Police officer (Photo)

Police brutality on civilians turned the other way round as a Policeman received the beating of his life from angry residents of Amasaman in Accra, Ghana. In a viral video posted online, angry residents at Amasaman, a suburb of Accra are filmed attacking the police officer identified as Sgt. Mahanadi at the SWAT Unit of the Ghana Police Service. What […]

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Kidnapper nabbed in Yobe, as he picks ransom even after the 5-year-old victim had died in his captivity (Graphic Photo)

Police in Yobe has arrested one Tasiu Abdulkareem, in connection with the kidnapping of a five-year-old boy who later died in his captivity in Potiskum. Parading Abdulkareem alongside other suspects, spokesman for Yobe State Police Command, ASP Abdulmalik Abdulhafiz said he demanded N8m from the boy’s family but was bargained to N50,000. He was arrested […]

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Missing female student’s corpse found in UNIJOS hostel (Photo)

The Plateau state police command have recovered the corpse of a female student of the University of Jos (UNIJOS), Mercy Naan, who was declared missing on May 3. A statement released by the command’s spokesperson, Terna Tyopev, says Naan who is 2nd year student of the department of Marketing, was declared missing by her parents […]

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Fulani herdsmen allegedly slaughter two boys in Nigeria (Graphic photos)

Some Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of today, allegedly butchered a Hausa boy and shot another dead in Owerri, Imo state, Nigeria. According to Facebook user, Egeonu Clinton who shared the story online, the Hausa boys guarding a land had earlier warned the herdsmen not to bring their cattles near the land but they […]

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Lady commits suicide in Nigeria after a quarrel with boyfriend (Photo)

A 26-year-old hairdresser, Kenile Nwabuzor, has reportedly committed suicide after her boyfriend identified as David, called off their two year relationship on April 11. Punch reports that, David in an inteview, said he met Kenile shortly after her mother’s death and that they had a rocky relationship as she felt inferior to him because she […]

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Kogi judiciary staff, a widow, owed over 1 year salary, slumps, dies

A staff with the Kogi State Judiciary, Mrs. Fatimah Noah, 43, has died, a day after the state branch of the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), called off its five-month industrial action. The Magistrate Court 2, Lokoja was thrown into mourning as the news of the demise of one of their colleagues, who was […]

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Alleged female robber wanted in many African countries nabbed at Jomo Kenyatta Airport (Photo)

A Kenyan woman allegedly wanted in several African countries for robberies, has been arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) as she awaited a flight to Dar es Salaam. Ms Margaret Waithira Kamande, described by detectives as a notorious robber, was arrested on Thursday night after detectives trailed her to JKIA. “We trailed her […]

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Former Miss Uruguay found hanged in Mexico City hotel bathroom (Photos)

Former Miss Uruguay pageant winner, Fatimih Davila Sosa, has been found dead in a Mexico City hotel. The 31-year-old, who won the Uruguay pageant in 2006, was identified by city officials as the woman who was found hanged in the bathroom of a guest room early on Thursday. The prosecutor’s office confirmed her death and […]

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