Justice Oyeyemi Ajayi of Oyo State High Court, Ibadan, on Wednesday, sentenced one Idris Rasheed (23) to 12 years imprisonment for raping a woman on hijab. Justice Ajayi said since the convict confessed to the crime while the doctor’s report…
NSCDC arrests POS operator for swindling N500k
The National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested Jeremiah Stephen, 24. Stephen specialises in making fake money transfers upon purchasing goods to unsuspected victims or withdrawing from POS machines. The suspect, arrested in the Michika local government area…
Why I killed ABSU student, Emmanuel Uche, suspected cultist confesses
Emmanuel Victor, the suspect in the viral video depicting the killing of a student of Abia State University Uturu (ABSU), Emmanuel Uche, last March, has confessed why he killed the victim. Victor stated this while being paraded alongside 110 others…
Son ‘stabbed mum to death thinking she was a vampire biting him at night’
A man allegedly drove a stake through his mother’s throat believing she was a vampire and was biting him at night. Robert Bruce Poe, 56, was found standing in a driveway covered with blood on his hands and clothing and…
Husband poses as robber, beats wife to stupor in foiled TV theft
One Tijjani Ahmadu Fiye, a 35-year-old resident of Bauchi metropolis, has mercilessly beaten his wife after stealing their television to raise money for investment in his shop. Police detectives attached to ‘A’ Division Bauchi rushed the victim to hospital in…
On his deathbed, her father told her a secret: He was a fugitive and had robbed a bank in Ohio
Thomas Randele was dying of lung cancer and had a secret. In March of 2021, with his daughter at his bedside in suburban Boston after his first chemotherapy session, he made a stunning confession: He was a fugitive, and had…
I got fresh human head, hands from cleric – Suspect
The Police in Oyo State, on Friday, paraded a 45-year-old suspected ritualist identified as Hassan Kolawole with a fresh human head in Ibadan, the state capital. Kolawole was paraded by the state Commissioner of Police, Adebola Hamzat, at the command…
True Confession: My battle with “drug addiction” – Peju Akande
I’ve seen him several times walking the streets, his unkempt hair and yellow eyes, his sometimes clean, sometimes dirty but always rumpled clothing. He, at one time, became a signpost of sorts around Ilupeju. “When you get to the traffic…