Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a commercial bus driver and his 18 passengers in Ochadamu, the Ofu Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria. The bus driver was conveying the passengers to their destinations in Abuja when the gunmen laid a siege to the vehicle and abducted the driver and the 18 …
Read More »Nigeria: man whipped three-year-old daughter to death
A 25-year-old man was arrested for whipping his three-year-old daughter to death after the child entered his neighbor’s apartment in Delta State, Nigeria. He whipped the baby, who was ill for some time, with a cane and inflicted bodily harm on him, for entering the neighbor’s apartment. He fled the …
Read More »Nigerian police chief sentenced to jail
A court in Nigeria has sentenced inspector general of police, Usman Alkali Baba, to three months in prison for disobeying an earlier order to reinstate an officer who has waged a lengthy battle to get back his job. Officer Patrick Okoli has been fighting his forced retirement since 1992. He …
Read More »Nigeria: government to abolish English in junior school
The Nigerian government has announced a policy aimed at promoting the teaching of primary school pupils in local languages rather than in English. Education Minister Adamu Adamu told journalists on Wednesday that the new framework known as the National Language Policy had been approved for implementation. It stipulates that instruction …
Read More »Nigerian man arrested for beheading girlfriend in Ghana
A Nigerian man has been arrested by the police for beheading his girlfriend in Accra, the capital of Ghana, local media reported. According to reports, the man committed this heinous act in an attempt to go for money rituals. But he was caught by his landlord who reported him to …
Read More »Nigeria: herbalist arrested for killing client in his shrine
A 23-year-old native doctor was arrested by the Enugu State Police Command for shooting his client to death while testing gunshot charms at his shrine in the Umuaram area of the state, Nigeria. He was arrested after the case was reported to the Isi-Uzo Police Division. He confessed to have …
Read More »Nigeria: man killed for refusing to buy beer to friend
A 29-year-old man has been arrested in the Nigerian state of Bauchi for stabbing to death a friend who failed to buy him beer at a bar. A discreet investigation conducted by the detectives attached to the command revealed that the suspect went to a beer parlor where he met …
Read More »Nigeria: housewife arrested for killing co-wife with pestle
Police in Nigeria’s Bauchi State arrested a 20-year-old housewife for killing her co-wife by using a pestle to hit her on the head, leading to her death. The incident was reported by the suspect’s husband. He said his second wife armed with a pestle entered his first wife room and …
Read More »Nigeria: man dies after hanging himself in Bayelsa State
A man has died after hanging himself from the flyover near the NNPC gas station on the Sanni Abacha highway in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The victim’s corpse was found by passers-by dangling on the rail of the flyover. While some residents believed that the deceased was …
Read More »Nigeria: man arrested for sodomizing a five-year-old boy
Nigeria’s Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 36-year-old man suspected homosexual for raping a five-year-old boy to death. Upon the report, the DPO Ogijo division, CSP Enatufe Omoh, quickly detailed his detectives to the scene where the suspect was promptly arrested. The suspect confessed being an homosexual and that while …
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