A Magistrates Court has sentenced two persons for stealing 404 pieces of catfish valued at N606,000 belonging to their boss in the Isabo Area, Ogun State, Nigeria. The convicts, who worked on a farm in Ilewo, were indicted on two counts of felony theft. The prosecutor, Olakunle Shonibare, told the …
Read More »Students arrested for assaulting their teacher
A gang of senior secondary school pupils have beaten a teacher for stopping one of them from cheating during an examination in their school in Ogun State, Nigeria, according to reports. “The teacher, while invigilating the unified examination for the SS 1 Art class students, caught a pupil cheating and …
Read More »A man arrested for his mother’s death
A 32-year-old man has strangled his mother at her residence in Itanrin, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria, according to reports. The suspect was currently a neuropsychiatric patient. “The suspect’s younger brother, a night guard, alerted neighbours to the development on his return from work,” reports said. The suspect was arrested after …
Read More »Father arrested for raping his 5-year-old daughter
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 28-year-old man for deflowering his five-year-old daughter in Nigeria, according to reports. “The victim’s mother noticed her daughter has been complaining of pain whenever she wanted to urinate,” reports said. “The mother complained that her daughter moaned every time she took a …
Read More »Student commits suicide after losing school fees
A student of the Federal Polytechnic has killed himself by drinking some chemical substance after losing his fees and that of his friend to an online betting in Ogun State, Nigeria. The deceased committed suicide when his colleagues were preparing for their first-semester exam. “The deceased used his school fee …
Read More »Nigeria: father starves his two children to death
A 45-year-old man has been arrested for chaining and locking his two children in solitary confinement which led to their death in Ibiade, Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria. “The suspect, father of three accused his children of stealing,” reports said. “He chained and locked the children …
Read More »Woman sells her 18-year-old baby for N600,000
A 33-year-old woman has sold her 18-month-old baby for N600,000 to offset her bank loan in Sango in Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria, according to reports. “She borrowed money from a microfinance bank and was unable to pay back the money,” reports said. “The bank agents …
Read More »Police arrested cultists terrorizing Ogun state
24 suspects were arrested for alleged involvement in cultism, armed robbery, terrorism and other criminal activities in the Ogun state, Nigeria. “The suspects confessed to being members of the Eiye, Vikings and Aiye confraternities,” according to the state Police Public, Abimbola Oyeyemi. “The arrest of the suspects followed the recent …
Read More »Boyfriend stabbed girlfriend to death in her house
A 22-year-old lady who was found stabbed to death in her room in Abeokuta the Ogun State capital in Nigeria, reports said. “The deceased was stabbed to death by her boyfriend while they were fighting” according to reports. The incident has thrown the entire family into mourning. The family members …
Read More »Nigeria: a lady corpse missing in a mortuary
A female corpse slated for burial has gone missing from the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria. “The family of the deceased came to the hospital to take the body for burial the body could not be found among 69 other bodies shown to …
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