Ogun State, Nigeria, World News & Stories
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Undergraduate beheads mother. The Police Command in Osun on Monday said it had arrested one Joseph Mark, a 25-year-old undergraduate of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Ondo, who beheaded his mother on Sunday. The Public Relations Officer of the command, DSP Folashade Odoro, told newsmen in Osogbo that the incident happened at about 6:30 am, at…
These are not the best of times for the family of Aliyus of FCT, Abuja, Nigeria, as the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission says it will on Tuesday (today) arraign Mrs. Maimuna Aliyu, the mother of Maryam Sanda, who allegedly killed her husband, Bilyamin Bello. The police had last week arraigned the…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission says it will on Tuesday arraign Mrs. Maimuna Aliyu, the mother of Maryam Sanda who allegedly killed her husband, Bilyamin Bello. The police had last week arraigned Maryam before an FCT High Court sitting in Jabi for allegedly killing her husband who is the son of…
Yewande Oyediran, a former staff of the Department of Public Prosecution in the Oyo State Ministry of Justice, who was convicted of manslaughter for killing her husband Lowo, was on Monday handed a seven years jail term by Justice Muntar Abimbola of the Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan. Yewande, a lawyer, was accused…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Thursday convicted an 87 year-old woman, Maria Seriki, of dealing in 10.3 kg of Cannabis Sativa. The judge, Justice Hadiza Rabiu-Shagari however, ordered that the convict be remanded at the Lagos State Old People’s Home, pending the time a member of her family, willing to take proper…
According to a report on Premium Times a 24-year-old man, Ehioboh Lucky, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly impersonating businessman Mike Adenuga to perpetuate internet fraud. The PRO of the command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect opened a Facebook account in the name of Mr. Mike Adenuga to defraud innocent people.…
Protest has greeted the admission of three suspected kidnappers to bail by an Ogun Magistrate’s Court, sitting in the Owode Egba area of the state. The defendants – Habibat Oyesanya, 52; Olubunmi Tajudeen, 36 and 40-year-old Morenike Shittu – were granted bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties each in like sum by…
Two suspected ritualists have been arrested by men of Ogun State Command of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria, VGN, in connection with the murder of a 17-year-old girl, Taye Gusau, in Idosemo, Ipokia Local Government Area of the state. After killing her, they decapitated the body, cut off the hands and intestines. It was gathered…
For inflicting life-threatening injuries on her eight-year-old stepdaughter, a woman has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command. The suspect, Mrs. Rose James Michael, who resides at 10 Onafowokan Street Ita-Oluwa via Ogijo, is cooling her heels in a police cell for harming Blessing James Michael. She was arrested following a complaint from her…
AN 18-year-old housewife, Divine Preye Idan, has confessed to the Police in Bayelsa State how she assisted her 35-year-old husband, Idan, to rob a boutique in Biogbolo-Epie, Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. Divine and her husband were arrested by the police after robbing a boutique managed by Uchenna and Juliet on September 21,…
