Tag: murder
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…
Teacher Beats Student To Death For Making A Noise
A teacher in South Africa has allegedly beaten a 16-year old student to death for apparently making a noise during…
HIV Infected Man Beats WifeTo Death For Denying Him Sex
A man suspected to be infected with HIV has allegedly beaten his wife to death in Plateau State, northcentral Nigeria.…
Hardline Kenyan muslim cleric shot dead
A prominent hardline Muslim cleric in Kenya was shot dead in Mombasa on Tuesday, amid worsening religious tensions in the…
Police Corporal Said To Have Run Amok Before Killing Wife, Others
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The policeman that killed his wife and five members of a family, including an auto-cyclist, in Abeokuta today,…
Court Remands Man For Killing His Own Son
An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered Gbenga Omotosho, 29, to be remanded in prison for killing his own…
2 Brothers Kill Sibling Over Dad’s N17m House
Cyriacus Izuekwe Police from the Homicide Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos State, western Nigeria,…
Father Padlocks Son’s Mouth, Beats Him To Death
Kazeem Ugbodaga A father has allegedly beaten his four-year old son to death, padlocking his mouth to prevent him from…
Nigerian scammer arrested for murder of Australian woman
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Monday said it had arrested a 28-year-old man wanted in connection with the…
NGE wants police find killers of Newswatch editor
The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) on Sunday urged the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State to track down the…
Robbers Kill APC Leader
The ex-Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, Engineer Akeem Arowolo…
Red Star Express auditor murdered
Simon Ateba/Lagos Tunde Olawuwo, an Area pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, and a senior manager at…
Rwanda’s ex-intelligence chief murdered
(Reuters) – An exiled former Rwandan intelligence chief was found murdered in a Johannesburg hotel room, police said on Thursday,…
Nurse killed after N1.5m ransom paid to abductors
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin A 43 year-old kidnap victim, Bridget Osawaru, has been allegedly murdered by her abductors after they collected N1.5…
Fashola visits the Ogunros, Tinubu sends condolence
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Tuesday described as shocking the death of the Managing Director of Eminent…
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Advertising Guru, Sesan Ogunro Murdered
—Funsho Arogundade & Ayodeji Dedeigbo Marketing communications guru, Mr. Sesan Ogunro Snr., has been shot dead. Ogunro, the Managing Director,…
Woman charged with murder of her son
A petty trader and single parent, Titilayo Odedele has been charged with the murder of her own son at the…