Osun State High Court has found Ramon Adedoyin, the founder of Oduduwa University, guilty of the murder case of Timothy Adegoke. The court, under the ruling of Judge Adepele Ojo, sentenced Adedoyin, who is also the owner of the Hilton…
Judge drops sentence for Mexican woman convicted of killing rapist
An indigenous woman in Mexico who was sentenced to six years and two months for killing her rapist may not go back to prison, as a judge suspended her sentence. The judge suspended criminal proceedings at the request of the…
3 in court for beating Lagos man to death
Three men accused of murder and attempted murder were on Monday remanded to the Kirikiri Custodial Centre, Lagos. The defendants, Mukaila Nofiu, Wasiu Rasheed and Hassan Kazeem, were arraigned before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court for the alleged murder of one…
Iranian journalist shot dead
An Iranian journalist was shot dead in the country’s south-western province of Khuzestan, Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday. Akbar Limuchi, the Chief Editor of the Tavsa-e-Jonob (Expansion of the South) newspaper, was killed by a gunman who entered a…
Our children, the monsters!
Some of our children can seem like monsters at times. I got a call from an old acquaintance who had seen something I wrote a while back. It was a piece about how some of our children can be deceptive.…
SuperTV murder: Court admits defendant’s 2 statements in evidence
A Lagos High Court, sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, on Thursday admitted the two handwritten statements made by Chidinma Ojukwu, the alleged murder suspect of Super TV Chief Executive Officer, Usifo Ataga, in evidence. Justice Yetunde Adesanya said that the…
Woman kills pregnant wife, Man arraign for defiling minor and more
What is a city without crime? thisislagos descends into the Lagos underground to search out the baddest guys committing the craziest crimes in LasGidi. Jealous Lagos woman kills pregnant co-wife (Punch) A 42-year-old woman, Fatima Rahman, from Chad Republic has…
Francisco Oropesa: Texas shooting suspect captured after tip-off
A man suspected of killing five of his neighbours in Texas has been arrested after police found him hiding in a cupboard underneath a pile of laundry. Francisco Oropesa was detained north of Houston. He was several miles from his…
Soldier shoots dead politician he was guarding
A Ugandan national army soldier has shot and killed a government minister he was guarding. Retired Colonel Charles Okello Engola, who was the deputy minister for gender and labour, was shot at his home on Tuesday morning. It is not…
Texas man fatally shoots 5 neighbors after noise complaint, sheriff says
After neighbors complained about the noise he was making, a Texas man went next door with an AR-15-style rifle and shot them, killing five people – including an eight-year-old child – as well as wounding three others at a home…