Tag: murder
Police Corporal Lynched By Driver
A driver has lynched a Police Corporal in Benin City, the Edo State capital, southern Nigeria. The incident happened on…
Disability made Pistorius feel vulnerable
Oscar Pistorius’s defence sought to show the double-amputee sprinter feels highly vulnerable and acted out of fear not anger when…
Oscar Pistorius a ‘suicide risk’
Paralympian star Oscar Pistorius, on trial over the killing of his girlfriend, is suffering from post-traumatic stress and is a…
Murdered Israeli teens laid to rest
Israel on Tuesday paid an emotional farewell to three teenagers killed in the West Bank, while vowing to hunt down…
Pistorius not mentally ill during shooting
The murder trial of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius resumed on Monday with experts saying they had found no sign of mental…
Mother Begs Court To Free ‘Wild’ Son
An Abule Egba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday discharged and cautioned a 32-year old factory worker, Ifeanyi Chukwu, who…
Pakistani female singer murdered
Yet-to-be-identified gunmen have shot dead a popular female singer in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar in the latest attack…
Hairdresser arraigned for murder
A Federal Capital Territory High Court on Tuesday granted permission to the police to arraign a 29-year old hair dresser,…
US executes man for kidnap, rape, murder
The United States on Tuesday carried out its first execution since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma in April, after…
Man Kills Father To Travel Abroad
An Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday remanded a man, Yusuf Akinbiyi, 41, at the Ikoyi Prison for…
Escaped French killer returns to Swiss jail, as promised
A French murderer who escaped from a Swiss prison this week, leaving a letter vowing to turn himself back in…
Couple Beats Son, 12, To Death
Yusuf Muhammed On the eve of a day children were to be celebrated worldwide, a couple in Lagos, southwest Nigeria,…
How Nigerian Youth Stabbed Mom To Death In UK
A court in the United Kingdom has heard how a cross-dressing Nigerian youth stabbed his mother to death in a…
Insecurity And Structural Injustice In Nigeria
By Femi G. Oguntoyinbo I was disheartened to read about the 17-year old boy who was beaten to death by…
Father Kills 2-Year-old Son
Cyriacus Izuekwe The police at Ejigbo division have begun a manhunt for a man who allegedly beat his 2-year old…