An Abeokuta, Ogun State High Court on Thursday sentenced a truck driver, Oyelami Adewale, to nine years imprisonment for driving dangerously and killing one Tunde Abdul.
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The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested three suspects for robbing and killing a pregnant woman in Damakasa in Apo resettlement, Abuja Municipal Area Council.
Eight undergraduates of the Benue State University, Makurdi are alleged to have been killed by suspected cultists in the state.
A Japanese court on Monday ordered a death sentence to a man who killed 19 disabled people at a care home near Tokyo in 2016, the worst mass murder in post-war Japan.
A 37-year-old driver who allegedly murdered the wife of his former employer was on Friday paraded in Ibadan by the police.
Delivering judgment in suit number: SC/640/2014, between Chifoanu Okorie and the State, John Inyang Okoro, leading other four justices of the Supreme Court, dismissed Okorie’s appeal to have the decision of the Owerri Court of Appeal overturned. In aligning itself with the 17th July, 2014 decision of the Court of Appeal sitting in Owerri (which affirmed the earlier death sentence passed on Mrs. Okorie and seven others by an Owerri High Court), the nation’s apex court put the final judicial seal on the fate of the appellant by dismissing the appeal brought before it, describing it as devoid of any “scintilla of merit”.
The accused was brought before the court on a charge for murder.
The Police Public Relations Officer for the Command, Ebere Amaraizu, said in a statement on Friday in Enugu that Onoja, 25, was found dead in his betting shop at Obolloafor on March 5.
She had ordered the murder, which was never carried out in March, transferring 4.1 bitcoin, then worth about 4,000 dollars, to the hitman’s virtual wallet, the court found.
We went back again to the DPO, CSP NKEM RAPHAEL to ask why my daughter was embalmed without our knowledge and that we heavily suspect foul play and demanded for an explanation and further investigation. The DPO reiterated his initial position and bluntly told us not to pursue this case further, that he would advise us to dialogue with Alhaji Usman ADAMU for our daughters burial. He insisted he has nothing more to do with us until we agree to meet with Alhaji Usman ADAMU.
The Lagos State Police Command has dispelled the news daily making the round that there is tension in Oshodi area…
He said they are made up of 12 for unlawful possession of arms and robbery, two for rape of minors and five for unlawful possession and spending fake currency notes.
Ibrahim said that some suspects had been arrested and the case transferred from Jega Divisional Office to the State Criminal Investigation Department for thorough investigation
Florence Ede, a mother of four, was on Thursday strangulated by unknown persons on her rice farm at the Kwara State border town.
The suspects also stole her money and 12 bags of rice she had just harvested
Mani, who spoke through the State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Cordelia Nwawe, said during the scuffle, Blessing ran to her mother’s house and left her daughter behind with her husband
The gunmen, who stormed the hotel on Friday at about 11pm, after tying the guards on duty, shot Ogunlusi to death.
They were said to be four in number, spotting black jeans, T-shirts and with face caps
Josephine and Onyeka had in 2008 at Azuiyiokwu, Abakaliki butchered her husband and kept his parts inside a cupboard.
She had accused the husband of attempting to marry another wife by building a separate house other than the one they were living in.
The Prosecutor, Inspector Phillip Osijiale, had told the court that the convicts committed the offences sometime in August 2010 at Sera Faboyede Street in Bucknor Ejigbo, near Lagos
The court found Abdullahi guilty of beheading nine-year-old Hamidu Sanda in a bush at Amberi Village, Iso Wara, near Ajase-Po in Irepodun Local Government Area of the state on April 1, 2009
Delivering her judgment, Justice Bwari said the court examined the surrounding circumstances of the case and found that the proper evidence arrived at had shown without any iota of doubt that the first accused person and no one else caused the death of the deceased