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A couple are to appear in court on Friday accused of keeping a man as a slave for 24 years.
Emmanuel Edet, 59, and Antan Edet, 56, were charged last Thursday with holding a person in slavery or servitude and...
Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom state has reportedly begged President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for forgiveness over a series of errant behaviour and disrespect to the person and office of the President.
Apart from personally begging the President for his...
A Nigerian who tricked an 81-year-old man out of thousands of pounds through a fake lottery scam has been jailed.
Chris Chidi Dinneya, 40, of Brocklehurst Street, London, was involved in the fraud which saw the victim pay huge amounts...
There is a certain amount of sibling rivalry between the immediate past governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki and his blood sister, Senator Gbemi Saraki.
It is no news that the grapes have since gone sour between them politically...
A 300-level student of Benson Idahosa University, Benin-City, Deborah (surname withheld) was raped to death by unknown persons last Saturday.
Deborah, 22, was ambushed in the midnight while she was returning from the hospital and was on her way to...
Fuji artiste, Abass Akande known as Obesere has denied claim made by his mistress, Miss Olanike Olaiya that he raped her.
The musician made the denial on a talk-show programme, Wazobia on MITV yesterday. He claims the rape accusation was...
A middle aged man has committed suicide in Akaibute Ozalla in Igbo Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu state.
The man identified as Adolphus Nwododo stabbed himself on his private part and neck with a knife severally over yet to...
A father has been held by the police in Oyo State for allegedly killing his daughter, Miss Kausara Isiaka because she ditched Islam for Christianity.
The deceased's father is accused of complicity in the attack of Calvary Church where she...
The police in Kwara yesterday paraded a female student of the College of Technology, Offa, Miss Mary Awolola for getting involved in the gang rape of her friend (name withheld) by cult members.
Mary also a cult member lured her...
Oladipo Ige was a healthy 400 level law student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife who lived in a private hostel not far from the school campus.
His death in his room at Asherifa, which came barely five days to the...
A bogus bride was caught minutes before she could tie the knot with her fourth husband.
Raquel Neto Furtado De Andrade had already married three Nigerians to help give them the right to stay in Britain.
Daily Mail reports that her...
The police have arrested popular Fuji musician, Alhaji Abass Akande, popularly known as Obesere for allegedly raping a 29-year-old business woman, Miss Olanike Olaiya at his Okota residence in Lagos.
The rape victim told police that Obesere who is popular...
The family of a middle aged woman from Lukshi village in Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi State have been made depressed by suspected ritualists who attacked one of them, Zainab Mohammed and plucked out her two eyes.
Zainab was...
An Ikeja Magistrate Court has remanded a 23-year-old labourer, Isaac John for theft and chopping off a finger of his victim pending when his remand warrant will be brought to the court.
The victim, Mrs. Ogochukwu Aronwu was robbed of...
Two pet dogs that embraced violence and could not give it up as they killed a six-day-old baby girl have been killed in return by the police in UK.
The deceased, Eliza-Mae Mullane was mauled by her own family's dogs-...
A middle aged man who had a scuffle with a nursing mother has killed the woman's baby in Supare Akoko, Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State on Tuesday.
The man identified as Kehinde Ayelehin was accused of...
A man who woke up in a body bag at a funeral home after being pronounced legally dead in what the coroner described a 'miracle'.
Walter Williams from Lexington, Mississippi, was zipped up in a body bag while funeral home...
A foreign student schooling at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana was brutally murdered on the campus last week.
A 300 level student, the deceased identified as Godwin Awogbo hailed from Nigeria.
His lifeless body was found with his intestines gushing...
A dupe on Monday swindled a rice seller of two bags of rice after using a 15 years old boy he had never met as a surety with a promise to return immediately to pick the boy and pay...
A 400 level student of the Taraba State University's anger went too far yesterday when he chose to commit suicide over a quarrel with his elder sister bordering on school fees.
The final year student simply identified as Samson and...
