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Adamawa

Girl escapes death after father slits her throat in Adamawa

The police in Inji Uku, Damare Ward, Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa State have arrested a middle-age man for allegedly slitting his daughter’s throat with a knife. It was gathered that the suspect, one Sa’idu Dan’iya also known as ‘Baba Aisha’, attacked his eight-year-old daughter, Zahrah Saidu, on Wednesday. It was further learnt […]

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Danfo driver

(WATCH): Danfo driver strips naked, threatens suicide as LASTMA officials try impounding his vehicle

A commercial bus driver in Lagos went berserk on Wednesday as some officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA) reportedly tried to impound his bus. The ‘danfo’ driver stripped naked and threatened to take his own life. The incident was said to have happened in Yaba area of Lagos on Wednesday. It was,

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newborn baby

(PHOTOS): Woman caught while dumping her newborn baby inside gutter in Lagos

A yet-to-be-identified woman was apprehended by passersby on Wednesday for attempting to dump her newborn baby inside a gutter in Lagos. An eyewitness says the woman was nabbed at exactly 10:30am before she could carry out her nefarious act at Ile-Epo bus stop, close to Iyana Ipaja, along the Lagos-Abeokuta expressway, in Lagos. Some passersby

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divorce

Man kills wife, commits suicide after getting divorce papers

A man planning to contest for the Mississippi state legislature, Carl Robinson, has shot dead his wife, Latoya Thompson, and then killed himself after he was served divorce papers. New York Daily News reports that Robinson who was the executive director of the Commission on Aging was running for the 5th district of the Mississippi

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construction site

8 workers die in water tank while trying to rescue colleague at construction site

Eight construction workers have been found dead in an underground water safety tank in the Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu state, the State Police Command said on Tuesday. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Ebere Amaraizu, said in a statement made available to newsmen that the incident occurred on Monday at a building

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prison

How typographical error kept man in prison for 14 years after pardon

A 48-year-old man, Derrick Addai, has been released from prison in Ogun State after spending 14 years in custody due to an alleged typographical error on the list of pardoned inmates. Our correspondent gathered that it took the intervention of the Osile of Oke-Ona, Oba Adedapo Tejuoso, and the Director-General of the Prison Rehabilitation Mission

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Woman

I slept with my brother-in-law unknowingly, Woman tells court

A trader, Mrs Kuditat Ajayi, 52, told an Igando Customary Court that she slept with her brother-in-law because she thought he was her husband. Ajayi’s husband, Akande, is seeking the dissolution of their 35-year-old marriage, accusing her of infidelity. ”I was in bed in the night when my husband’s younger brother came to the house

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