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67-year-old herbalist, Saadu Alabi, and one AbdulGaniyu Haruna, have been arraigned before a Kwara State Magistrates’ Court over the alleged rape of three underage students of a community junior secondary school in Ilorin, Punch Newspaper reports. Alabi, an herbalist, and Haruna, a 38-year-old friend of the father of one of …

An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday sentenced one Pastor Erinmole Adetokunbo and one Adedoyin Oyekanmi to death for killing a seven-year-old boy for ritual purposes. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo sentenced the duo who changed their pleas from not guilty to guilty on Monday. They convicts were charged with conspiracy to …

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a trans-border drug dealer, Anietie Okon Effiong, with three drums of crystal methamphetamine, locally called Mkpuru Mmiri, believed to have been imported from India, Vanguard Newspaper reports. The consignment weighing 90 kilograms and loaded into a commercial bus with …

A 34-year-old serial thief, Ezenagu, who is currently being investigated by policemen attached to Surulere Division, Lagos State Command, has revealed that he lures, drugs and robs women that go on blind dates with him, Vanguard Newspaper reports. Ifeanyi of no fixed address disclosed that since he ventured into this …

The police in Lagos has arrested a 36-year-old applicant, Ifeanyi Ezennaya, for allegedly drugging and robbing six women of six iPhones valued at N4 million. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident happened on Tuesday at Falolu Street, Surulere, Lagos. Ezennaya, whose residential address is unknown, lured …

Police in Osun on Friday confirmed the killing of a 45-year-old man at Ilesa Garage Area of Osogbo by suspected cultists, Vanguard Newspaper reports. The deceased was a close ally of the Osogbo branch chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Kazeem Oyewale popularly called “Asiri Eniba’’. Police …

A businesswoman, Asiata Oladejo, has told a Mapo Grade A Customary Court, in Ibadan, to grant her divorce on grounds that her estranged husband, Abidemi, was undependable and abandoned her to the mercy of armed robbers. Oladejo made the submission, yesterday,  in her counter argument in the divorce suit filed …

Residents of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital where shocked to their marrow, when the news broke that a young man, Joseph Ekala, 27, murdered his sister’s girlfriend, Miss Kate, 25, and buried her corpse in a shallow grave in his apartment. Parading the suspect alongside 13 other suspects at the …

Boladale Bamidele, septuagenarian mother of Bolu Bamidele, the young man who was set ablaze by his wife, Ifeoluwa, in Osogbo, Osun State has claimed that her daughter-in-law killed him out of jealousy and even accused her of feigning miscarriages. It will be recalled that Bolu who lived in Cairo, Egypt, …

The Makurdi Zonal Commander of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person (NAPTIP), Gloria Bai has raised the alarm that human traffickers now make use of technology to lure children into trafficking. Mrs Bai revealed this during the activities marking this year’s World Day Against Human Trafficking on …