A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, on Tuesday, sentenced a 22-year-old baker, Lawal Kamoru, to 13 years imprisonment for defiling a 14-year-old girl. Justice Raliat Adebiyi found Kamoru guilty of the one count of defilement levelled against him by the state. PUNCH Metro learnt that the convict and three others at large, had on February … Continue reading Court sentences baker to 13 years’ imprisonment for raping teenager →

  Nigeria’s oldest prisoner, Pa Celestine Egbohuche, 101, who was imprisoned at the Enugu Maximum Prison for over 19 years has finally been released. Pa Celestine was released on Thursday to his only surviving daughter, Miss Chisom Celestine through a non-governmental organisation, Global Society for Anti-corruption who had been pushing for his release from the Enugu … Continue reading Nigeria’s oldest prisoner regains freedom →

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan zonal office, on Monday arraigned one Paul Afolabi before Justice Patricia Ajoku of the Federal High Court, Ibadan Judicial Division. He was arraigned on four counts bordering on obtaining property under false pretence. Afolabi, who operated through the name William Sharon was arrested in Ibadan by operatives of … Continue reading EFCC arraigns man for obtaining property by false pretence →

Eniola Aluko, 19, was on Friday shot dead at Plumstead, London. According to UK’s Metropolitan Police, Aluko, who is from Thamesmead, died after sustaining gunshot wounds to the neck and chest. Metropolitan Police said they were called to the scene, a car park on Hartville Road, just before 5:00 p.m. on Friday. Aluko was found with critical injuries and died … Continue reading 19-year-old Nigerian, Eniola Aluko shot dead in London →

Three suicide bombers detonated explosives at Konduga village, 25km from Maiduguri, emergency services officials say. 3 hours ago Thirty people were killed late on Sunday in a triple suicide attack in northeast Nigeria, emergency services reported, marking the biggest mass killing this year by suicide bombers. Three bombers detonated their explosives outside a hall in … Continue reading Nigeria suicide attack: Triple blasts kill at least 30 in Borno →

Two rights groups — the Civil Liberties Organisation and International Society for Social Justice and Human Rights — have called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to immediate order the arrest and prosecution of those involved in the extra-judicial murder of a 21-year-old man, Daniel Agori.Daniel was said to have been shot inside a … Continue reading Arrest cops behind murder of 21-year-old Rivers man — CLO, other →

Vehicular movement on the Ife-Ibadan Expressway was noticeably light on Friday and Saturday, a development attributed to the incessant attacks by armed bandits on commuters and motorists on the highway. Going from Osogbo to Ikire on Friday, our correspondent observed fewer vehicles on the ever-busy road which connects the South-West region to other parts of … Continue reading Motorists shun Ife-Ibadan highway over banditry →

The family of a photographer, Tode Julius, has been thrown into mourning after he was stabbed to death by hoodlums while on his way to buy food in the Ayetoro area of Ebute Meta in the Yaba Local Council Development Area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the hoodlums, made up of the Sawmill … Continue reading Hoodlums stab photographer to death, injure fisherman in Lagos →

Suspected herdsmen on Wednesday went on the prowl again on the dreaded Ife-Ibadan expressway, killing a civil servant, Mr. Adenipekun Ademiju. Ademiju, popularly called Okere, a member of staff of Atakunmosa West Local Government Area of Osun State, boarded a private vehicle at Osu, on his way to Ibadan before the unfortunate incident occurred at … Continue reading Suspected herdsmen rob commuters, kill civil servant on Ife-Ibadan highway →

  • Two nabbed for allegedly hypnotizing woman to rob her of N1.4m • 400-level medical student says he got firearms for self-protection The police have commenced investigation into the alleged Monday night’s murder of a Lagos businesswoman, Abimbola Ayanwale. Ayanwale, a clothier, was alleged to have been murdered by someone who called her on … Continue reading Police investigate mysterious murder of businesswoman →