Tag: murder
Wunmi Adebayo: Police refute lover’s confession rumour
AbiodunOnafuye/Abeokuta The Ogun State police command has refuted claims that the male friend of the murdered undergraduate student of Tai…
All set for burial of Cynthia, Facebook tragic girl
Simon Ateba All is now set for Friday’s burial of Cynthia Udoka Osokogu, the 24-year old daughter of retired Major…
Peace elusive as banker shot dead in Maiduguri
Maiduguri, capital of Nigeria’s Borno state continues to cement its status as the killing capital of Nigeria, with the gruesome…
Driver Murdered By Wife’s Lover
A driver in Calabar, Cross River State capital, southsouth Nigeria, Mr. Effiom James Usor, has allegedly been murdered by his…
SSS unveils suspects in murder of Governor’s aide
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The State Security Service, SSS at their Headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday, paraded six persons suspected…
Wicked Afghan dad kills 2 daughters
All in the name of religion, an Afghan man has killed his two teenage daughters when they returned home four…
2 Chinese nationals murdered in Nigeria by Chinese
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Police authorities in Kano, northwest Nigeria on Monday said they are still investigating the remote and immediate causes…
Serial Murder Suspect Arrested
Police detectives at Homicide Department of State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, have arrested a…
Ex-civil servant shot dead in Gombe
The Nigerian Police in Gombe state have confirmed the killing of a retired civil servant, Tijjani Magaji, 43, of Idi…
Another police officer shot dead in Anambra
Unidentified gunmen have killed a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mr Emmanuel Ochiobi, attached to the Central Police Station, Onitsha…
Akwa Ibom kick boxer macheted to death
Akwa Ibom kick boxer Alexander Joseph, nick named “Ibom”, has been killed by gunmen. According to the News Agency of Nigeria…
Governor Oshiomhole’s murdered aide buried
The remains of Olaitan Oyerinde, the Personal Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomole of Edo State, was laid to rest on…
Oshiomhole’s campaign body set to protest aide’s murder
The Oshiomhole Campaign organisation (OCO) on Friday said it would on Saturday commence campaign for the re-election of Gov. Adams…
Machete wielding Guard Jailed six years
A High Court in Asaba, Delta State in Nigeria’s South South region on Wednesday sentenced a 30-year-old security man, Mohammed…
Judge Frees 47 Inmates
The Chief Judge of Ogun State, Justice Olatokunbo Olopade, has freed 47 prison inmates in the last one week, according…
Artisan Stabs Girlfriend To Death
An artisan was on Thursday charged before the Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to…
Police Arrest Students For Cultism
The Police in Lagos have arrested two students of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Ijanikin, over alleged cultism and attempted…
Grandpa, Four Others Charged With Murder
An Ebute-Metta Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, has ordered that a 76-year-old man and four others be remanded for…
Police Arraign Handset Dealer For Murder
A handset dealer, Segun Dada, 18 has been arraigned before an Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria for alleged…
Lagos Set To Cut Rice Importation
With a massive national rice importation bill put at about N1 billion, a large chunk of which is consumed in…
Police Kill 7 Robbers In Mushin
In what looks like a retaliation of the murder of the divisional police officer in charge of Alakuko police station…
Elections 2011, Headlines, News, Politics
After Fits Of Madness, Calm Returns To Northern Nigeria
After about two days of fits of madness resulting in arson and murder following Saturday’s presidential election won by President…
Corps Member Charged With Murder Attempt
A youth corps member, Obinna Okoroafor, 24, has been arraigned before an Ojo Magistrate’s Court, Ojo area of Lagos State,…
Area Boys Charged With Murder
Three street urchins, popularly called area boys, of no fixed address have been arraigned before an Ebute-Metta Magistrate’s Court, Ebute-Metta,…
CLO Condemns Murder Of Activist
The Abia chapter of the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has condemned the murder of Mr. Chidi Nwosu, the South-East Coordinator…
Lagos Monarch, 5 Others To Be Arraigned For Murder
An Ikeja High Court, Lagos, has adjourned till 11 January, 2011, the arraignment of the Alayobo of Ayobo in Ayobo-Ipaja…