Category: Metro
60 year old man to be stoned to death for raping 12-yr-old girl in Kano
An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Kano on Wednesday sentenced a 60-year-old man, Mati Abdu, to death by stoning after he was convicted for raping a 12 [...]
Teenage orphan accuses stepfather, hoodlums of rape in Ogun
A homeless orphan has accused her stepfather, identified simply as Okanla, of having carnal knowledge of her while she lived with him in the Itori are [...]
Insecurity: Allow responsible citizens carry rifles, Ortom tells FG
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has urged the Federal Government to allow responsible citizens to protect themselves with weapons such as AK-47 ri [...]
21-year-old man rapes neighbour’s children
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered that a 21-year-old man, Happiness Sunday, who allegedly defiled his neighbour’s children, be re [...]
Boko Haram fighters are like scavengers desperate for food – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has described Boko Haram insurgents in the north-east as “mere scavengers desperate for food”.
Buhari said the service c [...]
Police arrest father, stepmothers who chained boy for two years
Police authorities in Kebbi state have arrested a father and three stepmothers of an 11-year-old boy who was chained and kept in an animal stall for t [...]
Video: Repentant bandits told us a Northern governor is commander of Boko Haram in Nigeria – Ex CBN deputy gov
As Nigerians continue to search for a lasting solution to the lingering crisis in Southern Kaduna, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nig [...]
Police arrest 65-year-old man, two others for raping minor repeatedly in Taraba
A 65-year-old man, Ahmadu Garba, and two others, Abubakar Bala, 37, and Suleiman Ahmadu, were recently paraded by the police for raping an 11-year-old [...]
Chrisland teachers turned me to an enemy, says mother of sexually abused child
“I had read Pastor Nomthi Odukoya’s book, ‘No! Don’t Touch Me There’, so like I just sometimes did, I told my daughter ‘don’t let anyone touch your we [...]
Gunmen kill 13 in fresh attack on Benue community
No fewer than 13 persons were reportedly killed in an attack on Edikwu community in the Apa Local Government Area of Benue State. The incident, accord [...]