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A 24-year-old electrician, Mike Okpara, who was sentenced to three months in prison for stealing said he committed the crime because he needed money to treat his painful haemorrhoids. In his plea, after Mr Inuwa Maiwada, judge of a Karmo Grade I Area Court in Abuja sentenced him, he said: “My Lord please forgive me. […]

A woman on Wednesday took to social media to narrate how she narrowly escaped from getting drugged and raped by a man she met on Twitter. The lady, identified as Queen Dorcas/@bolanle_queen on Twitter, after meeting the guy on the microblogging platform, they exchanged numbers and regularly spoke on the phone. However, her euphoria burst

A Missouri man was awarded $1.1 million by the state of Kansas after he was wrongfully convicted of a robbery he claimed was committed by someone who looked like him. Richard Jones served 17 years in prison before he was freed last year after finding a doppelgänger who he said was responsible for the crime.

An Igando Customary Court in Lagos, on Wednesday dissolved the 14-year-old union between Pastor Peter Onuoha and his wife, Rose. Delivering judgment, the President of the Court, Adeniyi Koledoye, held: “it is obvious from the available testimonies and the respondent’s refusal to appear in court that the marriage broken down completely. “Throughout the duration of

Chief Ademola Odunade, the President of a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, on Wednesday dissolved a three year-old marriage between Tawakalitu Adeoye and Hakeem over threat to life and ritual making. Odunade held that the court does not joke with any issue that had to do with life, hence the need for the dissolution. “It

Zone 2 Police Command in Lagos on Tuesday said that it had arrested an 85-year old man and four others for being in possession of human heart and other body parts. Mr Lawal Shehu, Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Lagos and Ogun states, told newsmen that the suspects were arrested with fresh

A lady has taken to social media and narrated how God delivered her from homos*xuality, an act she described as a sin. The lady, who goes by the moniker @sheisdestinyleeon Instagram, also predicted an upcoming war between homos*xuals and Christians who speak against the act. She explained that the devil made her believe that a

An Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Tuesday dissolved the marriage of a woman who claimed that her husband regarded her as performing less in bed than his girlfriends. The Court President, Mr Adeniyi Koledoye, held that although the respondent, Mr Tosin Owolabi, wanted the marriage sustained, his wife, Adenike, insisted on a divorce. He

Two years aftertying the knots, the marriage between one Mrs Alimot Abass and her husband, Jimoh, was on Tuesday dissolved by an Igando Customary Court in Lagos overhusband’s laziness.  The petitioner described her husband as a ‘House Husband’, a lazy man that loves staying at home doing nothing. “Jimoh is a lazy type. He does

Osofo Maame Nketia, the wife of late Reverend George Akwasi Nketia of Heirs church at Bubuashie in Accra disrupted the church’s Sunday service in a bid to claim ownership of the church. Adom News reported that a pastor was preaching when Mrs. Nketia and her children stormed the church accusing the pastors of treating them