A 49-year-old man, Wada Haruna, who admitted to the charge of raping a 12-year-old girl, was on Monday in Jos sentenced to four years imprisonment. A Jos Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama which handed down the verdict, said the accused was guilty as charged. The judge, Mr Yahaya Mohammed, said since the accused had pleaded guilty to the charge, the court had no option than to convict him.Mohammed said the sentence would serve as a deterrent to others. Police Prosecutor U. Edwin had told the court that the accused informed a man, Babangida Mayau of Barkin Ladi about ...
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Three policemen attached to the Edo Police Command were on Sunday evening killed by gunmen in Benin. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the policemen were posted to provide security for fun seekers at the Ogba Zoo and Nature Park in Oredo Local Government Area of the State. Reports stated that the gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, abducted the director and chief executive of the leisure park, Dr Andy Ehanire, in the process. The reports further stated that the gunmen also took the rifles of the policemen after killing them. It was learnt that the killing disrupted activities ...
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A middle-aged man, Akilu Alhaji Saidu, has allegedly beaten to death his three-year-old step-daughter, Saratu Yahuza. Saidu has since been arrested and detained by the Katsina State Police Command. The incident occurred when Saidu was said to have dragged her into an uncompleted building in Yankara village of Faskari Local Government, where he allegedly beat, twisted and broke her neck. The Command’s spokesperson, DSP Gambo Isah, who confirmed the development, said one Yahuza Yakubu, purported to be the biological father of the girl, reported the case at the Police Station in Faskari. Isah said the suspect had since confessed to ...
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Mrs Ukamaka Nkwegu, who was recently delivered of triplets at Maternal and Child Health Clinic, Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital has sent a ‘Save-Our-Souls’ message to Ebonyi State Government and good-spirited individuals to enable her take care of the babies after her husband abandoned them. It was gathered that Nkwegu, who, until she was abandoned, was the third wife of her husband, was brought to the hospital from her village, Ozibo Obegu Ibenta, Ebonyi Local Government Area of the state, after prolonged labour. Matron of the health centre, Mrs Elizabeth Odoh, said Ukamaka, who is in her late 20s, was ...
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A new study has said Lagos, Nigeria, is one of the most stressful cities in the world. Five hundred locations were taken into cognisance in the study conducted by a United Kingdom based dry-cleaning and laundry service, Zipjet. Lagos was ranked third in a research, which revealed the world’s most and least stressful cities of 2017. Baghdad was ranked the most stressful city overall, followed by Kabul, in second place. Cairo and Dakar were two other African cities on the most stressful cities list, while there was no African representation on the least stressful cities list. In assigning the ranking, ...
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A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has sentenced a 40-year-old man, Godbless Ogiode, to eight years imprisonment for defiling two minors. The convict, who resides in Kpansia, a suburb of Yenagoa, was arrested on September 15, and immediately charged to court for rape. He was charged with two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a four-year-old girl and unlawful carnal knowledge of a five-year-old boy. The magistrate convicted the suspect after he pleaded guilty to the charges. Expressing delight over the judgment, Dise Ogbise-Erhisere, Chairperson, Federation of International Women Lawyer, FIDA, Bayelsa, said it was victory for ...
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A 55-year-old man, Bashiru Adeyanju, was remanded in prison custody by an Ado-Ekiti Magistrate’s Court for raping his 17-year-old daughter. Adeyanju, who was arrested on September 11, confessed to raping the girl nine times for money ritual, claiming that he committed the crime with two others, said to be native doctors. Adeyanju wondered why the Police failed to arraign his accomplices in court. He said he acted on the instruction of the witchdoctors and thereafter wiped his daughter’s private parts with a white handkerchief. Police prosecutor, Sergeant Monica Ikebuilo, told the court that Adeyanju violated Section 31(2) of the Ekiti ...
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At least 248 people were killed when a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday, including 21 children crushed beneath an elementary school that was reduced to rubble. Rescuers looked for survivors in a multistory building flattened by a powerful quake in Mexico City on September 19, 2017. A devastating quake in Mexico on Tuesday killed more than 100 people, according to official records, 30 deaths were initially recorded in the capital where rescue efforts were still going on. The destruction revived horrific memories in Mexico on the anniversary of another massive quake in 1985, the disaster-prone country’s deadliest ever ...
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Enugu Police Command has arrested a native doctor, Akor, who allegedly paid N200,000 to and another man, Idoko of Ifuroka Amala in Udenu Local Government Area, of the state, to kill one Onyemaechi Eze on July 5. It was gathered that the native doctor paid the suspect N200,000 to kill the victim. It was gathered that, the suspect, after committing the murder in his community, fled to an unknown destination, but was later arrested on September 16, at Inyi in Igbo-Eze North Local Government Area, where he was hiding. According to a statement by Police Public Relation Officer, PPRO, Ebere ...
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A Nigerian man has been taken into custody by Kenyan Policemen in Kiambu, Kenya for stabbing a fellow Nigerian to death in a fight over money in Ruaka Town, Kiambaa sub-county on Monday. A witness said that the man pulled out a knife and stabbed his friend moments after arriving at his residence, local news outlet, Mwakilishi reported. “The guy came over and they met at the gate. He stopped outside his friend’s car, knocked on the window, took out the knife and stabbed his friend in the chest,” a guard at the residence in question said. It was gathered ...
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