The Benue State Police Command has arrested a man who allegedly set fire to a block of classrooms in a school in Gwer East Local Government Area of Nigeria, according to reports. The suspect allegedly burned down the RCM Elementary School building in Gwer East after stealing a computer from …
Read More »Nigeria: a man sentenced to death by hanging
A Kano State High Court has sentenced a 29-year-old man to death by hanging for stabbing his 55-year-old mother-in-law to death in Nigeria. “The convict dealt several machete cuts on the victim’s head, leading to her death,” reports said. The victim was rushed to the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, Kano, …
Read More »Nigerian girls abducted by Boko Haram honored in exhibition
The faces of the 108 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria in 2014 are remembered in a new exhibition of sculptures in Lagos, Nigeria. The 108 Chibok girls faces have been sculpted in clay in a collaboration between french artist Prune Nourry, university students, professional potters and the …
Read More »Four men arrested for lynching a woman over witchcraft
Four men were arrested for burning to death a woman who confessed to killing six people in Michika area of Adamawa State, Nigeria. “The men burnt the mother of one to death shortly after she was dragged by members of the community to the palace of the ward head over …
Read More »Gunmen burnt police headquarters in Anambra
Assailants have burnt down the Divisional Police Headquarters in the Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria, according to reports. The assailants, who came in large numbers, stormed the police premises and began shooting sporadically, frightening the police officers on duty, before setting fire to the building. The gunmen …
Read More »Gunmen killed abducted youth in Nigeria
Unidentified gunmen have killed a youth and dumped his body by the roadside as he was abducted at Okpuno in the Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria. “He was kidnapped along Geneva Hotel Road and his lifeless body was found by the roadside,” according to information. “It …
Read More »Man arrested for killing 49-year-old girlfriend
A 31-year-old man has been arrested for killing his 49-year-old girlfriend in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria, according to reports. The suspect fled the crime scene as he stole her car, mobile phones, and other properties. “I have used a pestle to perform the dastardly act …
Read More »Four teenagers raped an eight-year-old girl
A father called for justice after four teenagers raped his eight-year-old daughter in the Bariga area of Lagos State, Nigeria. “My daughter has been sexually molesting by them when no one was around as she was living with her aunt due to the absent of my wife,” the victim’s father …
Read More »Woman arrested for luring university students into prostitution
A Delta State-based woman has been reportedly arrested and remanded in Anambra State for her alleged role in luring four university female students into prostitution in her state, Nigeria, according to reports. Four female students were lured by the woman from Akwa Ibom State to Agbor in Delta State, after …
Read More »A police killed female lawyer in Lagos
A policeman attached to the Ajah Police Station shot dead a female lawyer as she was trying to make a U-turn under the Ajah Bridge in Lagos state. “The victim, his sister and four children were leaving a restaurant in their, when the police officer tried to stop them,” according …
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