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Nigerian drill rapper, Lekan Akinsoji, a resident of Forest Gate, East London, has been found guilty of the 2017 murder of a 21-year-old rival, Ahmed Deen-Jah. According to Impartial Reporter, Akinsoji and his accomplice, Sundjata Keita, were convicted at the Old Bailey on Thursday. Two of them, aged 27, are facing life imprisonment for fatally stabbing Deen-Jah […]
Continue ReadingPolokwane High Court in South Africa has sentenced a 28-year-old South African woman, Mologadi Magdeline Mehlape to life imprisonment for the premeditated murder of her father, Dr Malekutu Johannes Mehlape, a circuit manager at the Limpopo Department of Education. The sentence, delivered on Wednesday, June 11, follows her guilty plea to charges of murder and […]
Continue ReadingOfficers of the Anambra State Police Command have arrested two suspects allegedly involved in the kidnap and murder of a female Bank Manager after the collection of a ransom of (N14m) Fourteen Million Naira in Onitsha. A statement from the command on Sunday, June 1, says the operatives, while on diligent investigations, trailed two of […]
Continue ReadingLagos State High Court, sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square Annexe and presided over by Justice Sherifat Sonaike, has sentenced Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Ominikoron, to death by hanging for the murder of 22-year-old Oluwabamise Ayanwola. Oluwabamise was last seen on February 26, 2022, after she boarded a BRT bus driven by Ominikoron […]
Continue ReadingOyo State government has withdrawn the charges of murder and negligence filed against the ex-wife of the Ooni of Ife, Queen Naomi Silekunola; the owner of Agidigbo FM, Alhaji Oriyomi Hamzat; and the principal of Islamic High School, Bashorun, Ibadan, Abdullahi Fasasi. Following the tragic stampede in December 2024 that resulted in the deaths of […]
Continue ReadingIn the early hours of the morning of January 15th 1966, a coup d’etat took place in Nigeria which resulted in the murder of a number of leading political figures and senior army officers. This was the first coup in the history of our country and 98 percent of the officers that planned and led […]
Continue ReadingI have a very senior police officer friend whose nickname is Ambush. On the front of my friend’s left shoulder is an ugly scar. At the back of the shoulder is an even bigger scar. I remembered Ambush the day it became known that 17 soldiers were murdered in a community in Delta State. My […]
Continue ReadingNigerian woman identified as Annie Nwozuzu Chinyere, has been reportedly arrested in Malawi in connection with the murder of a female banker, Agnes Katengeza who was found dead in her car a day after she was reported missing. The deceased, an employee of the Reserve Bank of Malawi, left home on September 23, 2023, to […]
Continue ReadingA High Court sitting in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, has sentenced two brothers to death by hanging for killing a farmer. The convicts are Uduak Udo Umoren, a 48-year-old pastor and his 34-year-old brother, Emmanuel Udo Umoren, a commercial motorcyclist. They were found guilty for the murder of Iboro […]
Continue ReadingDetectives have arrested two people after a 76-year-old Nigerian woman, Mrs. Nelly Akomah, was found dead at her south London home following a suspected burglary. The pensioner was discovered at her house in Ladbrook Road, Croydon, with fatal injuries around 10.40am on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, after police were scrambled by neighbours Residents in Ladbrook Road, Croydon […]
Continue ReadingEighty years old man, identified as Lucas Ateniola, was on Wednesday, March 29 remanded in prison custody by a Chief Magistrates’ court in Ado-Ekiti for allegedly murdering a woman identified as Elizabeth Nwamaka and attempted to murder a 20-year-old Alice Bodunride at their residence in Emure-Ekiti on March 24. While being arraigned before the court, […]
Continue ReadingOfficers of the Ogun State Police Command have confirmed the arrest of a suspect in the murder of former official of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Kehinde Fatinoye, and his wife Bukola. The husband and wife were killed on New Year’s day at their residence located within the Ibara Government Reservation Area (GRA), Abeokuta, […]
Continue ReadingEmbattled police officer, ASP Drambi Vandi accused of shooting and killing pregnant lawyer, Bolanle Raheem, appeared before the Yaba Magistrate court in Lagos state this morning, December 30. Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo SAN, filed a one-count charge against ASP Vandi for the murder of Mrs. Bolanle Raheem. The charge […]
Continue ReadingOperatives of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligent Response Team have arrested three suspected members of a notorious kidnap gang that allegedly killed a businessman and philanthropist, Jacob Ugwa, in Aba, Abia State. Late Jacob, an indigene of Abiriba in Ohafia local government area of the state, was shot dead by the kidnappers inside his compound at […]
Continue ReadingAn Igbosere Chief Magistrate Court in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Monday remanded in prison custody a 22-year old Togolese cook, Sunday Adefonou Anani, alleged to have killed his boss, Opeyemi Bademosi, Chairman of Credit Switch Technology. The presiding Chief Magistrate, Mrs O.O Oshin, ordered that he should be remanded in prison, pending the legal advice […]
Continue ReadingSix out of the eight suspects declared wanted in connection with the death of Major General Idris Alkali have submitted themselves to the Plateau State Police Command on Sunday, the Police said. The police also said two were yet to surrender themselves to the authority. The Spokesman of the Police Command, DSP Mathias Terna Tyopev, […]
Continue ReadingA High Court Judge sitting in Akure, Thursday, sentenced 7 persons to death for killing a United States of America-based businessman, Mr. Banji Adafin. The court also sentenced a woman to one year imprisonment for conspiracy, aiding and abetting on the same case. Adafin was killed while on holiday in Akure, the Ondo State capital. […]
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