Banker who tortured wife to death remanded in prison

A Lagos-based banker, Olaoluwa Adejo, who allegedly tortured his wife, Maureen, to death will spend the Yuletide season in prison as an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court ordered that he should be remanded in the Ikoyi Prison till February 28, 2018.

Punch reports that the order was handed down by the Chief Magistrate, Mrs. O.A. Adelaja, who also ordered the police to duplicate the case file and forward to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions for legal advice.

The 32-year-old Adejo was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly torturing his wife to death at their residence in the Oworonshoki area of the state.

3 reported dead after amala meal

Three people have been reported dead after reportedly eating amala in Ibokun, Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State on Friday, October 27.

Daily Post reports that the trio reportedly died from suspected food poisoning.

According to the reports, a source in town who pleaded anonymity, said about eight people consumed the meal.

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The source added that four of them are still in the hospital, critically ill.

Daily Post reports that the bodies of the deceased have been deposited at the Osun State General Hospital morgue at Asubiaro in Osogbo, for further medical investigation.

The Commissioner of Health in the state, Dr Rafiu Isamotu, when contacted over the case, said that there was no cause for alarm as all efforts are being geared towards finding out the real cause of the deaths.

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He added that preliminary investigations indicate that the family members had been eating from the same yam flour in the past weeks and that the poison in the food could have been in the stew.

Meet Tobi Cohen, 1st Nigerian woman in the Israeli Army

While many Nigerians have been bringing disgrace to the country with their criminal and dirty activities in foreign lands, Lt. Tobi Cohen has brought honour to the nation by being the first Nigerian woman to serve in the Israeli Defence Forces [IDF].

The young military officer who has been hailed as one of the best officers in the Army actually has a Nigerian mother and an Israeli father but grew up in Nigeria and sees herself more of a Nigerian than an Israelite.

Speaking on the website of IDF, Lt. Cohen said she grew up with stories of her father who served in the IDF as a soldier and had always dreamed of following in his footsteps, a dream which has come to pass today.

This viral photo of a pregnant woman in Ghana is causing outrage

playThis image has caused nationwide outrage in Ghana

 

An image of a pregnant woman being carted to a hospital on a tricycle in Ghana is causing outrage.

Groom releases pre-wedding photos of his two brides [Photos]

A man who is set to get married to his two fiancees on the same day has set the social media ablaze after he released the pre-wedding photos of himself and the two women who seem very contented as they prepare to say I Do to him at the same time.

The lucky groom, Daniel Etoroma, a native of Orie-Irri in the Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, according to a post made by one of his friends, MC Udeke, will be getting married to the two ladies on Saturday, September 30, 2017.

MC Udeke who also posted the pre-wedding photographs of the intending groom and his brides, said that Etoromi, also known as Akalaka, has done all the necessary rites and the much-anticipated marriage said to be the first of its kind in that parts, is set to attract a lot of crowds as the people look forward to it.

Daniel Etoromi and his two pretty brides

 

Nigerian man stabs 'brother' to death over money in Kenya

A Nigerian man has been arrested by the police in Kenya for allegedly stabbing his compatriot to death following a business deal that went bad.

Kenya NTV reports that the middle-aged suspect stabbed the victim who was his friend and business partner, during an argument over money in Ruaka, a town in Kiambu County of Nairobi.

 

It was gathered that residents who responded to screams in an apartment on September 18, 2017, rushed to the scene and apprehended the culprit who had stabbed the deceased several times in the chest with a knife, and started beating him before he was saved by police.

He was taken to the Karuri Police Station while the deceased's body was taken to the Nairobi City Mortuary.

Neighbors described the two men who were often seen together, as secretive and reserved.

'We make girls run mad, useless after using them for rituals' - Suspects

Some suspects arrested by the police in Lagos State for allegedly indulging in Yahoo Plus, have confessed that they make their victims, especially girls, either run mad, become sick or useless.

Total media reports that one of the suspected fraudsters identified simply as Hakeem, alias H-Funds, a 26-year-old university drop out, told the police that they use voodoo otherwise known as Yahoo Plus or Science to get money from their victims.

42 persons caught in the act of homosexuality arraigned in court

A magistrate court in Lagos on Thursday, August 3, 2017, arraigned 42 suspected homosexuals who were recently arrested at a hotel located at Owode Onirin.

Among the accused were 12 minors who appeared before the Ebute-Metta Magistrate Court, while the remaining offenders had hearings at the Yaba Magistrate Court.

Man in prison for hypnotizing, sleeping with 7 housewives

A Katsina Senior Magistrate Court has remanded a 40-year-old man, Sani Idris, in prison custody after he was arraigned for allegedly hypnotizing seven married women and having sex with them.

Daily News reports that Idris, a resident of Maska village in Funtua Local Government Area of the state, was accused of using charms to hypnotize the women and having sexual intercourse with them without their consent.

Police unmask female officer who helped Evans escape

A senior female police officer who allegedly aided the escape of suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, from police detention after he was arrested for armed robbery in 2006, has been arrested.

The Nation reveals that the identity of the officer who is now a Chief Superintendent of Police [CSP], identified only as Tina, was uncovered by a Special Investigation Panel (SIP) set up by  Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris, to probe Evans’ 2006 arrest, transfer from Lagos State to Imo State and eventual release from detention without prosecution.

 

Evans escaped from police because he had insider help (Pulse)

 

Recall that after Evans arrest on June 10, 2017, a senior police officer had told reporters that his team had arrested the suspect in 2006 following a bank robbery but was later transferred to the Imo State Police Command following the intervention of a female officer who claimed Evans was her brother.

Suspected Badoo Cult member burnt to death in Ikorodu [Graphic Photos]

It was the end of the road for a suspected member of the dreaded Badoo Cult gang after he was caught by residents of Igbo-Oluwo, Ikorodu, Lagos State, in the early hours of Friday, June 30, 2017.

According to a resident of the area who posted the gory story on the Ikorodu Ambassadors Facebook group, the suspect was stripped naked, given the beating of his life before he was set ablaze, despite pleas by elders to hand him over to the police for proper investigations.

Meet kidnap kingpins Army accomplice

Lance Corporal, Victor Chukwunonso
(bellanaija)Following the arrest of Lance Corporal, Victor Chukwunonso by the Nigerian police, new information on his operations alongside billionaire kidnap kingpin Chukwudi Dumeme Onwuamadike aka Evans, have emerged.

Punch reports that Victor Army No: 09/NA/64/6317, was attached to the Nigeria Army Band Corps, Abatti Barracks, Surulere, Lagos.

Now, ThisDay throws more light on the arrest, revealing that Nonso, as Victor was fondly called, was a member of Evans' gang.

See the Zimbabwean man with 108 children, 25 wives

An 87-year-old man in Zimbabwe who has 108 children from 25 women and 10 wives has described himself as a bedroom machine who is not ready to stop having children.

iHarare reports that the octogenarian, Sekuru Tauzen Mujaji, from the Chipinge South in Zimbabwe, holds the record of having fathered the children from his wife and other women in a space of 43 years.

 

Mujaji of the Shangani tribe was born in 1930 and had traditional challenges that resulted in him only being able to have his first child in 1974 when he was 44.

2 Nigerian women convicted in the UK for defrauding 7 men

Two Nigerian women, Grace Akintaro, 24, and Victoria Nwogu, have been convicted after they were found guilty by the Woolwich Crown Court in the United Kingdom of being part of an online romance fraud which defrauded seven men into paying them over £100,000.

Daily Mail reports that Akintaro of Pettacre Close, SE28, pleaded guilty to seven counts of fraud by false representation while Nwogu of Piedmont Road, SE18, pleaded guilty to one count of laundering £3,490 between April 29 and May 6, 2015, and will both be sentenced at the same court on Tuesday, June 20, 2017.

12-yr-old street girl gives birth to baby at a dumpsite

A 12-year-old homeless street child who was abandoned by her parents on the suspicion of being a witch has reportedly given birth to a baby girl at a dumpsite in Akwa Ibom State.

According to a children charity organization run by a Danish  woman, Anja Ringgren Loven, Child's Right and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN), the girl had been living at a dumpsite in the state after her parents sent her out of the house following a revelation by a Pastor that she was a witch and responsible for their poverty.

Outrage in Ghana following lynching of senior military officer (Video)

The late Captain Maxwell Mahama
(Pulse Ghana)There has been widespread outrage in Ghana following the mistaken lynching of a top military officer by some residents of Denkyira Obuasi located in the country’s Central region.

MyJoy Online reports that the victim, Captain Maxwell Mahama, was lynched in the early morning of Monday, May 29, 2017, when he went jogging in the town a few days after he was posted there.

Captain Mahama, it was reported, unfamiliar with the city, reportedly stopped a woman to ask for directions but the woman raised an alarm and residents of the town mistook him for an armed robber and subsequently stoned and burnt him to death.

Angry mob kills man who stabbed woman to death in Kogi (Graphic Photos)

A man identified as Ibrahim Abdulmalik, has been lynched by an angry mob at the Idodere community, Ogaminana in the Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi State, for allegedly stabbing a woman, Avoshi Seberu, to death for mistakenly pouring water on him.

Punch reports that the tragic incident occurred after Seberu poured water she used in washing kola nuts on Abdulmalik by mistake on Wednesday, May 24, 2017, and immediately apologized to him as she did not do it on purpose.

Father, son killed by generator fumes in Lagos

Tragedy struck again in Lagos State when a man and his son lost their lives after inhaling dangerous fumes emitted by their generating set while they slept in their apartment in the Iwaya, Yaba area of the state.

Guardian reports that the victims, Ayodele Megbuwawon and his son, Tobi, had switched on their generator at the lobby of their bungalow apartment, shut the doors and windows before going to sleep on the night of Monday, May 22, 2017.

According to an eyewitness, the duo was discovered the following morning by neighbours and while the son had died in the night, Megbuwawon passed on at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba.

OGSG set up committee to investigate lecturer, student scandal

The Ogun State government has set up a panel to investigate the alleged sex for marks scandal involving a lecturer at the state College of Health Technology, Ilese, Ijebu, Dr. Oluseyi Adu, who allegedly impregnated and abandoned a female student of the school identified as Mosunmola.

 

Punch reports that the government decided to weigh in on the matter that has been generating a lot of controversy in the past few weeks, when the victim accused the lecturer of having sex with her, impregnating her and dumping her.

Missing sons of Kenyan politician found dead

Three missing sons of Kenyan politician, James Ratemo, have reportedly been found dead.

Ratemo who is vying for the Kapsoya ward representative seat in Eldoret is reportedly devastated by the loss of his sons identified as Clifford Nyambane, Dan Nyamweya, and Glen Ongagi.

Star Kenya reports that the boys went missing on May 13, after they went to a church with one of their cousins and never returned.

The boys aged seven, three and five years old, respectively were found dead and their bodies dumped in River Nzoia at Sikubale in Navakholo, Kakamega County on Thursday, May 19

 

This video of man handcuffed to moving police van will break your heart

A video of a man handcuffed to a moving police van in Edo State has caused outrage since it went viral.

The video which was shared on Twitter in a bid to get the attention of the Commissioner of Police has since gone viral and caused myriad reactions online.

Man slashes 5-yr-old boy's throat, drinks blood in SA

A 21-year-old human vampire has been arrested by the police in South Africa after he slit the throat of a five-year-old boy and drank the blood of the victim, Daily mail reports.

It was gathered that the vampire killer abducted the little victim identified as Tinyiko Reckson while he was playing with his friends in front of his house in Soweto and slashed his throat in what has been termed as a sacrificial killing.

In Libya, thousands of Africans and Nigerians are being sold into slavery

When you think about the slave trade, your mind goes to Kunta Kinte and how he was shipped to America and endured a lifetime of slavery.

We think slavery doesn't exist in these modern times How wrong. Not only does slavery still exist it is happening here in America.

Several Nigerians who were desperate to get to Europe by any means possible are now slaves in Libya.

Migrants in Libya

 

Nigerians and other citizens from Africa countries are being auctioned in slave markets in Libya. The North African country serves as a passage to Africans who want to get to Europe. From Libya, they take a boat to Europe if they don't drown in the sea.

Woman weds 7-old-boy in place of Dubai-based brother (Photos)

The wedding of a Nigerian woman to a seven-year-old boy who stood in for his older brother based in the United Arab Emirate has threatened to tear the Internet.

 

According to a Facebook user, Qasim Aliy Balogun who posted the photos of the traditional marriage on his page, the woman identified as Amoke Alarape decided to be joined in marriage with the little boy as she could no longer wait for her groom to come back for the wedding.

The bride and her baby groom

 

Gay man kidnaps boy, rapes him to death in Niger

A notorious homosexual who preys on young boys in the Kontagora community of Nigeria State, Ahmed Maishayi, has been arrested after he allegedly kidnapped a little boy and raped him to death.

According to a Hausa online news platform, Filter, Maishayi who sells bread and tea in the area, abducted the boy identified only as Aminu and subjected him to repeated anal sex till he lost consciousness.

Indian police arrest 5 men who attacked Nigerians

The police in New Delhi, India, have arrested five men suspected of attacking some Nigerians and other Africans resident in Greater Noida in the north of the city.

The five suspects were among the hundreds of angry residents who attacked the Africans with sticks and metal chairs following the death of a local teenager from a suspected drug overdose.

Jumia releases statement on death of dispatch agent

Online e-commerce giants, Jumia, has released an official statement following the murder of one of its delivery agents who was killed by customers after delivering two iPhones to a house in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The dispatch rider was allegedly strangled to death and dumped inside a septic tank by three people who have been arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Rivers State Police Command at 4, Adaede Street by Location, Off Ada George Road, Port Harcourt, after neighbours alerted the officers.

What reason do they have by killing this young girl.

What reason do they have by killing this young girl.
Why are asian countries and other countries like Libya are always against black Africans

Engineers invent 'smart jacket' to diagnose pneumonia

A team of Ugandan engineers has invented a "smart jacket" that diagnoses pneumonia faster than a doctor, offering hope against a disease which kills more children worldwide than any other.

The idea came to Olivia Koburongo, 26, after her grandmother fell ill, and was moved from hospital to hospital before being properly diagnosed with pneumonia.

"It was now too late to save her," said Koburongo.

"It was too hard to keep track of her vitals, of how she's doing, and that is how I thought of a way to automate the whole process and keep track of her health," he added.

Koburongo took her idea to fellow telecommunications engineering graduate Brian Turyabagye, 24, and together with a team of doctors they came up with the "Mama-Ope" (Mother's Hope) kit made up of a biomedical smart jacket and a mobile phone application which does the diagnosis.

Man commits suicide to protest America-based father's neglect

A 34-year-old who committed suicide after posting a notice on Facebook apparently took the step because his United States of America-based father neglected him.

The deceased, Taiwo Ariyo, was said to have ingested a powerful insecticide called Sniper on Saturday, March 3, 2017, and later died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, after suffering from depression.

Woman bathes lover with acid after he called off relationship (Photos)

A 24-year-old man identified as Iniubong, is currently battling fo his life after his ex-girlfriend, Lucy Daniel, bathed him with acid after he decided to call off their relationship.

A Facebook user, Nse-Abasi Odiong, reported that the young man, an indigene of Ikot Ntuen Oku, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, was in a romantic relationship with the 26-year-old Daniel for some time before he told her they should put a stop to it.

 

But that decision did not go down well with Daniel who felt used and on Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at about 1 am, she went to his house at Akpan Essien Street and poured the corrosive substance on him.

'I want to die...' 85-yr-old woman cries out

An 85-year-old woman who has been rejected, neglected and abandoned by her five children has cried out that she prefers to die as there is nothing to live for.

The woman, Madam Bolaji Isaac who should be living in comfort in her old age, according to Punch, adds that all her five children rejected her and efforts to see them had been abortive and that anytime she dies, she will be going to the grave with sorrow and bitterness.

 

South Africans attack Nigerians, burn houses, church, cars (Photos)

The Nigerian community in South Africa is currently under attack in another xenophobic wave where their properties including homes, cars, shops and churches have been burnt down.

This much was made known by the President of Nigerian Union in that country, Ikechukwu Anyene, who posted on his Facebook page how some youths descended on Nigerian residents  in some parts of the country, looting shops, beating and destroying their property.

Mother causes death of only son after feeding him with kerosene

A kerosene retailer, Mrs. Ata Buhari, in a bid to soothe her son's thirst has inadvertently caused his death when she fed him kerosene instead of water.

The 18-month-old boy was reportedly the only son of four children born to his parents.

 

Bellanaija reports that the sad incident occurred on Tuesday at about 10 a.m at their home on Iguma Street, Off Medical Stores Road, Benin, Edo State after the deceased, Isreal Buhari had complained of thirst.

Toddler whose penis was cut by step-mother undergoes surgery

A toddler named Buhari Muhammad, whose penis was cut by step-mother, Bara’atu Muhammad has undergone a reconstructive surgery aimed at restoring his organ.

Senator blasts PMB for budgeting N40M to feed animals

Common Sense Senator, Ben Murray-Bruce is not happy at the moment as he has lamented the fact that while Nigerians are hungry, President Muhammadu Buhari is budgeting the whopping sum of N40 million for animals in Aso Rock.

'Boko Haram paid me N200 to detonate bomb' - Suspect

A female suicide bomber arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), on Tuesday, February 7, 2017, in Maiduguri, Borno State, has confessed that she and her late colleague were paid N200 each for the mission.

The 18-year-old suspect identified only as Amina, according to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), was intercepted alive while her colleague, Zainab, was shot dead when they tried to ram into motorists at the NNPC Mega Station along Damboa Road, Maiduguri.

 

Amina was said to have become scared and threw away the explosive wrapped around her and ran away but the operatives chased her to a safe place and shot her in the leg before she was arrested.

Woman allegedly gives birth to goat after 3 years of pregnancy

Residents of Rumuowha Eneka community in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State have been thrown into shock and fright after a woman who had been carrying a three-year-old pregnancy allegedly gave birth to a goat.

 

According to an eyewitness, Simeon Chukwu who posted the incident on his Facebook wall, the woman who is from Abia State but married to a man from Akwa Ibom State, was delivered after a prayer and fasting period at a branch of the Redeemed Christian Church of God at the Karaka Community Hall in the area.

 

Man molests wife who refused to worship family idol

A woman named Omotolani Alele has requested for divorce from her husband, Anthony who reportedly maltreats her because she refused to worship their family idol.

She presented her request before the Idi-Ogungun Customary Court, Agodi, Ibadan where she wants her marriage to Anthony dissolved due to brutal treatment.

Alele's statement during the court hearing reads,  “My husband asked me to join him to worship his family idol several times but l refused, and this made him to beat me always.

Lady becomes unconscious after ‘Keke’ rider gave her a blow for insulting him

A lady who could not keep her saucy tongue in check ended up in a gutter after a ‘Keke Marwa’ (tricycle rider) she insulted gave her a heavy blow that saw her losing consciousness.

According to an eyewitness who posted the incident on his Facebook page, the lady was on her way to work early in the morning around the Bariga area of Lagos State, when she got into an altercation with the Keke rider.

She was said to have insulted the living daylight out of the tricycle rider and when the man could no longer take the lady’s insults, he allegedly got down from his machine and approached the lady who dared the man to touch her and see what would happen to him.

Couple murder accountant over chicken roost

A man and his wife, Segun and Sola Irein, have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly beating an accountant, Idowu Solaja, to death following a disagreement over a chicken roost.

Punch reports that the incident happened at the residence where the Ireins stay with the deceased on Babs Lawal Street in the Ikorodu area of the state after the couple built the chicken roost.

Father, son in court for stealing 11,000 pieces of cat fish

Awoniyi Solomon, an adult (age not declared), on Friday appeared before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate Court in Ado-Ekiti for alleged theft of 11, 000 pieces of cat fish.

Mr Oluwafemi Ojo, the Legal Officer of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), told the court that the accused committed the offence along with his son, one Awoniyi Segun, now at large.

PHCN official reportedly stabbed to death by woman for disconnecting light

A 35-year-old woman has been arrested by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, for allegedly stabbing an official of Ikeja Electric company in Lagos State.

Police arrest Nigerian gay asylum seeker for murder of 76-yr-old lover

A 24-year-old Nigerian gay man, Desmond Newthing seeking asylum in Italy, has been arrested over the death of his 76-year-old lover, Lanfranco Chiarini.

The victim was reportedly stabbed to death at his villa in Castel San Pietro, on January 3, 2017, Daily Post reports.

Club owner explains why he puts leashes on women

Eze Nwalie Nwogu, the owner of a popular Lagos club house who is also known as 'Pretty Mike', has explained why he put leashes on women.

This is following his arrest by the Lagos State Police who made him write an undertaking that he will not repeat such an act.

A police officer looks on as Pretty Mike walks by with leashes tied to the necks of his female entourage.
(Press)

 

In an interview with Punch News' Saturday Beats, Nwogu disclosed that his perceived abuse of women was actually a sort of activism meant for female empowerment.

He qualified his action as a mission statement of a greater goal, claiming that only extreme measures such as his can bring the public's attention to the cause.

‘We raped lecturer to death’ – Kidnap suspects

A few days after the body of a female lecturer of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue State, Christiana Agbulu, was found in a bush in Lokoja, Koji State, two months after she was kidnapped, the Kogi State Police Command have arrested three suspects.

Vanguard reports that the three suspects have allegedly confessed that they had gang-raped Agbulu to death and dumped her body in the bush even after they had collected ransom from her family.

Watch Obasanjo, Gowon, others sing popular hymn

Past Nigerian leaders singing a hymn
It's second day of the year and things are looking up so far.

Starting off the year in a hilarious note, past Nigerian leaders made up of former Presidents and ex-vice Presidents come together as a choir to sing a popular Christian hymn by Isaac Watts titled 'Our God, our help is ages past'. 

Groom calls off wedding after catching bride with lover 2 days to event

A wedding which would have been held on December 29, 2016, has been called off after the groom caught his bride-to-be having sex with her lover two days before the day.

The wedding which was to hold in Nnewi, Anambra State, was called off on the groom, Izuchukwu Anthony Ekweanua, following his shock find that his bride, Uchechukwu Frances Obi, was sleeping with her ex-boyfriend.