Metro

Eight months after she lost her daughter to oil spill, Annkio Kie (not real name) is still struggling to fight off pain and sorrow. Mary was sick for three years, after what started as mere rashes turned out to be a severe skin disease. “We couldn’t send her to the hospital because there was no […]

A 56-year-old security guard, simply identified as Bello, has been arrested for allegedly serially raping his daughter in Lagos. Police spokesman, CSP Chike Oti, said Bello was in the employ of an old generation school prior to his arrest. According to Oti, Bello was reported by the school authorities that he had been having sexual

The police on Friday arraigned a prophet, Vincent Adewunmi, in an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for allegedly defrauding one Apostle Austin Okeke of N6.35 million. Adewunmi, 36, of no fixed address, is charged with two counts of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence. The prosecutor, Sgt. John Iberedem, told the court that the accused committed

A 33-year-old woman, Chioma Iwu, who police accused of stabbing her brother-in-law with a broken bottle on Friday appeared in a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ court  Lagos. Iwu, who resides in Lekki area of Lagos, is charged with assault. The police prosecutor, ASP Roman Unuigbe, told the court that the accused committed the alleged offence on

A man who strangled his pregnant wife and suffocated their two young daughters wanted to escape his marriage and growing family, prosecutors said Monday as a judge imposed a sentence of life without parole after a plea deal kept the killer from facing the death penalty. Christopher Watts, who pleaded guilty two weeks ago, did

An 18-year-old boy has killed his mother and had s*x with her corpse in a bid to get rich quickly. The bizarre incident occurred in their rented apartment at 8B Market road, Ologbo in Ikpoba-Okha LGA of Edo State, on Monday, October 29, 2018. The suspect, Akpobome Samuel, allegedly strangled her 58-year-old mother, Gift Samuel,

The Police Command in the FCT has arrested Emmanuel Onuma, 34, for allegedly stealing N14 million from a new generation bank’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM) lobby in Abuja. ACP Olumese Valentine, in charge of operations in the command, disclosed this while addressing newsmen on the arrest on Wednesday in Abuja. Valentine said that the suspect

A staff of Voice of Nigeria, identified as Temitope Mustapha, has narrated her painful and bitter experience during the Kaduna crises in October 21st 2018. The journalist painstakingly described how some “hot-headed miscreants” stoned her and used long metallic objects to beat her while she was trying to run for her life. Her painful ordeal

A newlywed couple died after the helicopter carrying them from their wedding crashed into the side of a mountain in Uvalde, Texas, authorities said. The couple Will Byler and Bailee Ackerman Byler got married on Saturday evening at the Byler family ranch before departing on the helicopter in front of family and friends. Uvalde is

A 79-year-old Chinese woman, who begs at Hangzhou East Railway Station, has been exposed as a wealthy woman, who merely enjoys begging. According to Global Times, the woman is well-off, has a family, who cares for her but prefers to beg. So, the railway resorted to broadcasting a message, telling passengers not to give her