Tag: Corpse
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Outrage as siblings keep decomposing mother’s corpse at home for 9 days
…we were instructed by God not to disclose our mother’s death – Children Some residents of Universal Road by Medical Store Road, Okhoro axis of Benin City woke up on Sunday to discover that two siblings had kept the corpse of their 78-year-old mother at home for nine days. The deceased, Mrs Agbenese Oshoma’s decomposing…
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Bauchi man kills 35-year-old pregnant lover, buries corpse in sewage
The Bauchi State Police Command have arrested a middle-aged man, Lamido Gunduma, for allegedly killing and burying the corpse of his supposed lover, Jamila Saidu, in a sewage system. According to reports, Gunduma committed the act in his compound while trying to abort the 35-year-old woman’s pregnancy. The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ahmed…
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#ENDSARS: ‘I saw five dead bodies at Lekki Tollgate when I went to pick my brother’s corpse’
Some persons with injuries on Friday stormed the Lagos Court of Arbitration in Lekki, the hearing venue of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing the alleged shooting of #EndSARS protesters by soldiers on the night of October 20 at the Lekki tollgate. Some of the injured persons, who were brought to the LCA…
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BIZARRE! Six-year-old raped to death in Kaduna, corpse dumped in cemetery
The corpse of a six-year-old, Aisha Ya,u, suspected to have been defiled before being killed, has been recovered from a cemetery in Kurmin Mashi area of Kaduna. According to reports, the corpse was discovered by a farmer, returning from his farm, and who alerted passers-by. Eye witness accounts as at the time of filing this…
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Why we didn’t conduct autopsy on Arotile’s corpse before burial – NAF
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said no autopsy was carried out on Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile because the family of the deceased was satisfied with the explanation on what led to her death. According to the air force, Arotile, who was Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, died at the NAF base, Kaduna, after being…
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Court orders exhumation, one week after burial of wrong corpse
An Upper Islamic Shari’ah Court on Monday at Kofar Kudu emir’s palace in Kano State ordered the exhumation of a corpse one week after interment. The judge, Ibrahim Sarki-Yola, had over a week ago ruled that the state’s moral police (HISBAH) was to take custody of the body of late Abdullahi Obinwa from Aminu Kano…
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Police exhume corpse of LASU final-year student allegedly killed by boyfriend, Pastor
The Police Command, Osun State, has exhumed the corpse of the Lagos State University final-year student, Favour Daley-Oladele on Saturday. The commissioner of police, Osun State, Babatunde Kokumo led his team to Ikoyi-Ile in Isokan local government where the body was exhumed. Babatunde Kokumo while addressing newsmen after the exhumation said, “We are all aware…
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[Graphic Photo] More corpses recovered from Rivers pipeline explosion site
Three more dead bodies have been evacuated from the scene of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, pipeline explosion last Saturday at the swamp of Komkom Community in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. This brings the death toll to 46 so far. The leader of the youths in the area, Ethel Nwokoria, told…
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Four tenants allegedly exhume landlord’s corpse, sell his property
Four tenants, who allegedly exhumed the corpse of their landlord before selling his property, were on Monday brought in a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The three accused men and a woman are – Silifatu Abisile, 60; Jimoh Abisile, 52; Gbade Bakare, 56; and Isaiah Bakare, 45. The accused are facing a five-count charge…
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2 mortuary attendants, 5 others arrested over missing corpse
The Police in Lagos have arrested seven persons working as mortuary and cemetery attendants over a missing corpse in their custody. The Commissioner of Police in Lagos, CP Imohimi Edgal, disclosed the arrests to newsmen while parading the suspects and others on Friday at the command headquarters in Ikeja. According to Edgal, on Tuesday, Nov.…