Murder

Youth shot dead for playing football near VIP’s house

A 70-year-old man, Mr. Stephen Irobunda, has escaped a mob action in Ohokobe Ndume in the Umuahia North council area of Abia State...

Horrific! Hubby stabs fatally newlywed wife, sets house on fire in Lagos

In a fit of rage, 30-year-old Motunrayo Olaniyi has allegedly stabbed his newlywed wife, Olajumoke, to death in the Ikorodu area of Lagos...

In Lagos, man arrested for stabbing father to death

Chibunnma Chimelie, a 25-year-old man, has been arrested for fatally stabbing his 68-year-old father in Aswani, Lagos. The incident occurred on Thursday at...

Police take into custody suspected killer of abducted FUNAAB female student

The Lagos State Police Command says it has taken over the case of 23-year-old Adeleye Ayomide from the Nigerian Army. Ayomide is suspected...

Soldier shoots DPO dead at military checkpoint

The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Wusagu Police Division in Kebbi state, Halliru Liman, a superintendent of police, has been shot dead by...

Abuja cross-dresser Area Mama murdered, police launch investigation

The Abuja Command of the Nigeria Police has launched an investigation into the death of a cross-dresser, Area Mama, whose body was discovered...

Nigerian, Abodunde, who killed wife with skateboard in London bags life sentence

Nigerian Olubunmi Abodunde, who killed his wife,Taiwo with a skateboard and attributed his loss of control to medication, has been sentenced to life...

Two years after relocating to UK, abusive Nigerian beats wife to death with son’s skateboard

An abusive husband has beaten his wife fatally using their son’s skateboard while police waited outside for permission to enter from superiors. Officers...

Driver nabbed for slaughtering 80-year-old boss, wife in their Abuja apartment

Pa Adebola Ezekiel, an 80-year-old man, and his wife, Abiodun Ezekiel, have been found murdered in their Apo apartment in the Federal Capital...

Tragic! U.S.-based professor shot dead in Osun

The 50th anniversary of a monarch and the chieftaincy conferment on Gov. Ademola Adeleke of Osun State at Ejigbo at the weekend turned...

Two Kwara Poly students nabbed for allegedly robbing, killing socialite during threesome

Two suspects, Adama Joseph and Oreoluwa Davies, are currently cooling their heels in police net for allegedly killing a club owner, Adeniyi Ojo,...

Tragedy as Nigerian kills fellow countryman in South Africa

A Nigerian has snuffed a fellow national in a brawl in the Bloemfontein, Freestate of South Africa. The death of the two friends...

Brainsick-man decapitates octogenarian, “neutralized” resisting arrest

Iperu community, the country home of Ogun Governor, Dapo Abiodun, was overcome with grief on Friday as 32-year-old man, David Shodola, severed an...

Policewoman paid with her life, children for accommodating freshly divorced woman as she roasted them

Seized by a murderous rage, a newly divorced woman and squatter, has dispatched to the great beyond by roasting a policewoman and her...

VP Shettima grieves over Prof. Ajewole’s killing, says we were classmates

Grief-stricken Vice-President Kashim Shettima has expressed shock over the killing of Prof. Opeyemi Ajewole, a renowned Professor of Social and Environmental Forestry, by...

Ile-Ife hotelier, Dr Ramon Adedoyin, sent to hangman for killing varsity student, a lodger

After about 19-month long trial, the day of judgment finally came for Dr Ramon Adedoyin, owner of Hilton Honours Hotel, Ile-Ife, who was...