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An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday convicted two labourers, Abubakar Abdullahi, 28, and Abdullahi Ibrahim, 22, for stealing cow bones and horns valued at N1.2 million. The police charged Abdullahi and Ibrahim with two counts of conspiracy and stealing. The accused persons pleaded guilty to conspiracy but pleaded not guilty to stealing. ICYMI: Hoodlums abduct lecturers, […]

A South Carolina inmate has been fatally shot after he broke into a woman’s house, hours after he and another inmate escaped jail after beating up a security guard. Bruce McLaughlin Jr., 30, was shot in the head by the woman after he kicked in her back door on Tuesday, according to Pickens County authorities.

A 32-year-old housewife, Abimbola Oreoluwa, has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, Ondo State Command, for inflicting razor blade injuries and pouring hot water on her 12-year-old houseboy. The suspect was arrested following complaints from a good samaritan of the alleged maltreatment of the houseboy. ICYMI: WHY IS HE STILL ALIVE?

Jungle justice is bad, in fact, it is very, very, very bad, but some offences are just too huge to ignore and that is why some Nigerians call for jungle justice on a pedophile that reportedly raped a three-year-old in Rivers. That is demonic, yeah? But on the flipside, some policemen in Rivers State, allegdely

Four men were on Monday paraded by the Osun State Police Command for allegedly killing one Victor Akinbile in Ikirun, the headquarters of Ifelodun Local Government Area of Osun State. Parading the suspects in Osogbo, the Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fimihan Adeoye, said the suspects abducted Akinbile, who came from Lagos to see

Michael Udom, a 52-year-old pastor at Pinnacle of Praise Church, Lagos, on Tuesday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding his church members of N1.5 million on the pretext of coordinating a monthly contribution. Udom, whose lives on No. 76 Ikorodu Rd., Fadeyi, Lagos, is charged with three counts of conspiracy, fraud and

A Kenyan woman, Joyce Wairimu Wahome, has been arraigned in court for allegedly stealing and selling her eight-month-old baby, Consolata Wambui, for the sum of Sh80,000 (N283, 242). According to SDE, Wahome sold her baby to Margaret Wairimu Kihiko and then reported to the police that her baby had disappeared. Police charged the two women

A suspect who attempted to rob a business woman in front of her house at Ojota, Lagos was arrested by residents of the street after the woman raised alarm. Witnesses told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the incident happened on Friday night at Olabisi Street, Ojota, at about 8. 30 p.m. while the

Four persons, who allegedly exhumed the corpse of their landlord before selling his property, on Monday appeared before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The three accused men and a woman are Silifatu Abisile, 60; Jimoh Abisile, 52; Gbade Bakare, 56; and Isaiah Bakare, 45. The accused are facing a-five-count charge of conspiracy, kidnapping,

Over the weekend, Nigerians winding down at the Ikeja City Mall witnessed a fracas erupt between a Nigerian man and a lady. The guy was recorded beating up a female with the cause of the bout still unknown. At the parking lot of the mall, an eye witness captured the moment a man hit a