Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Afenifere chairman, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, has been killed by persons suspected to be herdsmen. This was contained in a text message from Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere spokesman, Mr. Yinka Odumakin on Friday. According to Odumakin, the 58-year-old woman was heading to Ore Junction from Akure, Ondo State, when she was…
Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria have again clashed with the police at the Federal Secretariat, Abuja, today. The police fired gunshots and tear gas canisters to disperse the protesters while five Shi’ite members were apprehended by the security operatives. Our corespondent reports that the confrontation sparked panic as workers, commuters and motorists fled…
Another lady has accused the founder of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Biodun Fatoyinbo of raping her. The lady, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in an interview with our correspondent said the incident happened in 2017 at the pastor’s house. According to her, she was an employee of COZA, who worked directly with the pastor and…
Many people are feared killed in a fire incident that has engulfed the Last Bus Stop Area of Ijegun, in the Igando-Ikotun Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, on Thursday. Our correspondent gathered that some suspected bunkerers were on their way out of the area after scooping fuel from a vandalised pipeline in the…
The Senate on Wednesday, set up a bi-partisan ad-hoc committee headed by a former governor of Ebonyi State, Sam Egwu, to probe the alleged assault on arrival nursing mother by Senator Elisha Abbo. The embattled senator is a Peoples Democratic Party member representing Adamawa North Senatorial District, who allegedly slapped the saleswoman at a sex…
The Osun State Police Command, on Tuesday, said it had arrested one Habeebulah Abdurrahman, an Islamic cleric in Ede, for allegedly defiling a 16-year-old girl learning Arabic in his school. Abdurrahman’s arrest followed a petition by the Crescent Chamber, Ibadan, dated June 13, 2019, addressed to the Commissioner of Police, which detailed how the cleric…
An Indian woman and her daughter were beaten and hacked to death in eastern India for allegedly practising witchcraft, police said on Saturday. The killings took place in Jharkhand state’s West Singhbhum district on Thursday, senior police officer Anand Mohan Singh said. The 56-year-old woman, Malti Devi, was attacked by her neighbour, also a distant…
Gunmen suspected to be assassins on Thursday evening ambushed and killed the chief architect in the Works and Physical Planning unit of the Cross River University of Technology, Bassey Ekpenyong Inyang. An eyewitness revealed that the suspected assassins had arrived in a bus and parked close to the home of the former Secretary of Calabar…
“My wife pushed me into adultery,’’ Mr Bello Abudu, a 42-year-old technician, told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Thursday. Abudu, whose wife, Blessing, sought the dissolution of their marriage, accusing him of infidelity, told the court while responding to the allegation that his wife pushed him into adultery “My wife always tells me…
A middle-aged housewife, Mrs Yemi Samuel, has been arrested by men of the Kwara State Police Command for allegedly faking her own kidnap in Kabba, Kogi State. Samuel was among the nine suspects paraded by the police in Ilorin on Wednesday. Three other suspects, Jenmo Usman, 27; Iliashu Mohammed, 25; and Maude Umaru, 21, suspected…