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.

Woman cries out after police officer in-law tear gassed her

The abused woman and the officer
(Facebook)A Lagos State-based businesswoman Oladipupo Adijat Abiola, is currently on the receiving end of a power show after her sister-in-law who is a police officer attacked her with tear gas in her shop.

Abiola who went to her Facebook wall to put a picture of her disfigured face after the attack, said the in-law stormed her shop following a disagreement and showed her that she is above the law by emptying a canister of tear gas on her face.

Policeman kills colleague, student over stipend

Mathew Joshua, a policeman attached to a new generation bank in Zaria killed his colleague, Aliyu Kamilua, a student, and injured four persons over stipulated stipend.

The student who was hit by a stray bullet was said to have witnessed the disagreement between the Corporal and the Sergent. According to The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Corporal Joshua discovered that Sergent Kamilu had been short-changing him.

Man cries out after woman brutalised young nephew

A Facebook user, Darlington Chibueze, has cried out over the kind of brutality a woman meted out to her own nephew over an offence the poor boy committed.

Chibueze took to his wall to narrate how the woman maltreated the boy, inflicting severe injuries on him and has vowed to pursue the case to a logical conclusion to get justice for the young boy.

 

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This is how Chibueze captured the incident thus:

“Can you see him? Look at him well. After a busy schedule, today, I went to see my photographer, and on entering his shop, I saw this picture.

UK deportee who murdered father arrested by Lagos police

After being on the run for days for killing his father and viciously stabbing his mother, Babaola Rotimi Jnr., a drug addict who was deported from the United Kingdom has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command.

Punch reports that the 24-year-old man fondly called Junior, had murdered his 59-year-old father, Babalola Rotimi Snr., at their home in Magodo Phase 2, Shangisha area of the state and stabbed his mother, Adijat, several times, leaving her for dead.

Wife tells divorce court how husband impregnated her sister twice

A 60-year-old businessman, Momodu Abu, was disgraced at an Igando Customary Court sitting in Lagos State by his wife, Saidat, over allegations of impregnating the wife’s sister on two occasions.

The 55-year-old Saidat, a trader, also told the court that her husband is an incurable flirt who chased after women, both young and old, married and single.

12-yr-old boy reportedly buried inside wall, rescued

Photos shared on social media shows a young boy alleged to be 12-years-old, being rescued from the inside of a wall where he was reportedly buried.

A Facebook user shared the shocking photos claiming that the young boy had been rescued from a wall in Ondo state.

Kidnapped Benue female journalist regains freedom

The female journalist abducted by gunmen some few days ago in Benue State, Iyuadoo Tor-Agbidye, has been regained her freedom after four days in the kidnappers’ den.

 

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Tor-Agbidye’s was rescued by men of the State Police Command on Tuesday, November 6, 2016, with no ransom paid by her family.