A few years ago, I went shopping for my kids at Ikeja. As I was passing under the bridge by Ipodo, I saw traders quickly scooping up their wares and scampering to safety. When I saw pedestrians like me hurrying…
Suspected ritualists behead man in Bayelsa church
Suspected ritualists have beheaded 37-year-old Anthony Egbo, inside the Living Faith Church, aka Winners Chapel at Elebele community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. Egbo was a security man attached to the church. It was gathered that the…
Abeg, leave gay people alone – Lucia Edafioka
I am back, this week, with danfo gist from Lagos. On my way home one evening, I was in a danfo, as usual. It was a lazy evening sort of – rain had not made up its mind if it…
Suspected ritualists murder 78-year-old widow in Ekiti, remove vital organs
There was tension in Ikere-Ekiti, headquarters of Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State following the gruesome murder of a 78-year-old widow by suspected ritualists. It was learnt that the victim, Mrs Sabianah Aranilewa, was slaughtered before her blood and…
I was a goner, but my mother’s kindness saved me from ritualists
My mother is a very kind woman and we sometimes hated her for it. She takes on people’s problems like they are hers. When I was growing up, my mum would go bathe new borns of women who had no…
It is good to be good -Tara Martins Aisida
A student in one of the universities in the Southwestern cities of Nigeria left the library late in the afternoon and boarded a taxi to her hostel. She felt reasonably safe because it was still daylight and there were two…
Police repel attack on station, arrest three (Nation)
Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested three suspects following a raid on cultists and ritualists’ hideout. The Command’s Spokesperson, DSP Bala Elkana, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. He also said that the raid,…
Lagos Police arrest two suspected ritualists, mob lynch another (Nation)
The Lagos State police have arrested two suspected ritualists, Folake Falade and Emmanuel Gbenga of Mosafejo-Ilogbo, Badagry, Lagos, after passersby discovered them inside a tunnel under the Cele Nicer Bridge in Ijanikin area of Lagos with a decomposing corpse. The…
Spare parts dealer turns lover killer, lime and honey prophet, and more crime
What is a city without crime? Every Friday, thisislagos descends into the Lagos underground to search out the baddest guys committing the craziest crimes in LasGidi. Don’t get caught!!! Mrs Ambode cries out over impersonation by cyber fraudster Wife of…