Life is funny; sometime it spits in your face and sometimes it takes you over a curve and you smile. I am in the hospital not to visit a friend o, the person I am visiting with all these packed…
Amnesty International calls for release of Maryam Awaisu of #ArewaMeToo
Amnesty international has called for the immediate and unconditional release of Maryam Awaisu, writer and activist who is a leading light of the #ArewaMeToo movement. The group is pursuing justice for victims of sexual violence in Nigeria. Maryam Awaisu was,…
Police burst ritualists’ den, arrest two suspects in Ekiti (Guardian)
Ekiti State police command has burst a ritualists’ shrine in Odo, a suburb of Ado Ekiti, the state capital and arrested two suspected ritualists. The Commissioner of Police, Asuquo Amba, who led a team of officers and journalists to the…
Driver arrested for allegedly raping 78-year-old woman (Guardian)
Another remanded over seven-year-old child’s defilement The Lagos State police command has arrested a commercial bus driver, simply identified as Jelili, for allegedly raping a 78-year-old woman in an isolated area at Adeniyi Jones, Lagos State. The old woman was…
Police arrest man accused of attempting to kidnap boy (Guardian)
Undercover operatives have arrested one Sikiru Tanimowo over an alleged attempt to abduct a four-year-old boy at Okokomaiko area of Lagos State. The operative also rescued the boy identified as Abu Yusuf, from his abductor. The suspect was said to…
Morocco arrests suspect after murder of two Scandinavian women (Al-Jazeera)
The tourists were found with their throats cut in an isolated area on the way to North Africa’s highest peak of Toubkal. The women were found dead in an isolated area on the way to North Africa’s highest peak of…
33-Year-Old Man And Friend “Tired Of Eating Human Flesh” Given Life Sentence (Guardian)
Two South African men, Nino Mbatha, 33, and Lungisani Magubane, 32 have been sentenced for life on the grounds of murder after a judge said they were guilty of “the most heinous crime”, local media reported. Sitting at the Pietermaritzburg…
Police arrest ATM fraudster in Anambra (Punch)
The Police Command in Anambra on Thursday said a suspect, Obinna Okafor, 30, was arrested over alleged Automated Teller Machine fraud. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Mohammed Haruna, who confirmed the arrest in Awka, said that the suspect was…
Two drug addicts drown in River Niger evading NDLEA arrest (Guardian)
Luck ran out of two alleged drug addicts in Lokoja on Sunday when the men of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) swooped on their joint called ‘Bunk’ behind Moremi, where they buy and smoke Marijuana, also known as ‘weeds.’…
Man accuses Ogun F-SARS of brother‘s unlawful arrest, detention (Punch)
The younger brother of an Ogun motorcycle rider, Biola Olopade, has accused the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Magbon, Abeokuta, of arresting his brother, Aliyu Olopade, unlawfully and detaining him for two months without allowing him to see his family…