Tag: Murder
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Police hunt Lagos party organizer as man murders friend over lover
The Lagos State Police Command has started a probe into the killing of two friends at a party in the Mafoluku area of Oshodi, Lagos State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, said the police were searching for the party organizer to know the circumstances that led to the death of the…
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Murder of late Ubulu-Uku Monarch: Absence of Defence Counsel Stalls Hearing
Hearing in the case of kidnap and murder of late Obi Akaeze Ofulue III of Ubulu-Uku in Aniocha South Local Government of Delta State on Tuesday was stalled by the absence of the defence counsel. This is coming as the trial judge, Justice M.O. Omovie of the High Court, Ibusa, Delta State, inexplicably prevented journalists…
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Five more suspects arrested in connection to Fasoranti daughter’s murder
Operatives of the Force CID, SWAT, have arrested five more suspects in connection to the killing of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of former leader of Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Funke Olakunrin was killed at Kajola on Ondo-Ore Road on 12 July 2019. Four suspects: Lawal Mazaje, Adamu Adamu, Mohammed Shehu Usman,…
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Three brothers arrested for murder in Ogun
Three brothers, Okiki Mulero 23, Micheal Mulero 21, and Joseph Mulero 17, have been arrested by men of Ogun State Police Command for killing a security guard on duty. The suspects reportedly committed the offense on Friday, December 25, 2020, by beating to death a So-Safe corps officer who was on guard duty at OGD…
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Police dismiss 10 officers for murder, corruption, other offences in Lagos
The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed 10 personnel for offences ranging from murder, discreditable conduct, excessive use of power, corrupt practices, and negligence. The Lagos police Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made this known in a press statement on Wednesday. The statement was titled ‘Lagos command kicks against indiscipline, dismisses 10 personnel’. It noted…
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#EndSARS violence: 229 people arrested for arson, murder, others in Lagos
No fewer than 229 people have been arrested in Lagos in connection with the mayhem that engulfed Lagos in aftermath of #EndSARS protest. The Lagos State Government said it would be prosecuting the suspects who allegedly took advantage of the EndSARS protest to destroy and loot public and private properties in different parts of the…
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Evans, others stand murder trial before another judge today
Alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, aka Evans, and others will today continue with trials over murder and kidnap charges before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of Lagos High Court, in Ikeja. At the last hearing, Inspector Idowu Haruna, a member of the Intelligence Response Team of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), had at the last hearing…
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No apology after fifteen million murders, By Owei Lakemfa
KING Philippe of Belgium descends from his heavenly throne this week to sign a letter to President Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo of the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, acknowledging for the first time in 113 years, Belgium’s genocide in that country. Philippe danced round the subject of his country’s massacre of over 15 million Congolese…
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45-year-old woman raped, murdered in Imo
The Imo State Government has vowed to fish out suspected ritualists who allegedly killed a 45-year-old woman, Mrs. Susanna Iwuoha, after raping her. Iwuoha, a mother of four from Alaocha, Umuchiaku, in the Lowa-Okata Autonomous community, Ihitte Uboma LGA, was found dead with her face dug into a local stream days after she left home…
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2 sons stab fathers to death in South Africa
Two sons are expected to appear in Magistrates’ Courts in South Africa on Monday, 8 June 2020 for separate cases of murder. In Christiana, a town in North West province of South Africa, a 19-year-old suspect was on Friday, 5 June 2020 apprehended for allegedly stabbing his stepfather to death. Police were called to a…