Tag: Skull
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Man smashes mother’s skull in Imo
47-year-old Sunday Agwim from Umuobom in Ideato South Local Government Area of Imo State is in police net for killing his 62-year-old mother Christiana Agwim with a hammer. Agwin was reportedly arrested over the weekend for killing his mother using machete to severe her head before smashing the skull with a hammer. Jude Mbionwu, a…
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Police parade 18 suspects over alleged armed robbery, possession of human skull in Ibadan
The Oyo State Police Command on Wednesday paraded 18 suspects in connection with alleged armed robbery, impersonation, possession of human skull and hijacking a tanker loaded with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS). Briefing newsmen on Wednesday at the Command’s Headquarters at Eleyele, Ibadan, the Commissioner of Police, Shina Olukolu, said the police also recovered 19 firearms,…
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Police nab eight suspects with 11 human skulls
The Nigeria Police Force on Wednesday said it had arrested eight suspected ritual killers, including a woman with 11 human skulls in Ilorin, Kwara. Acting DCP Jimoh Moshood, the Force Public Relations Officer, disclosed this at a news conference in Abuja. He listed the suspects as: Azeez Yakubu, principal suspect, Ahmed Yahaya, Abdulfatai Kadri (…
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Germany returns skulls from colonial-era massacre to Namibia
Skulls and other remains of massacred tribes of people used in the colonial era for experiments to push claims of European racial superiority were handed over by Germany to Namibia at a church ceremony in Berlin. In what historians call the first genocide of the 20th century, soldiers of German Kaiser Wilhelm slaughtered some 65,000…
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Everton defender Keane suffers fractured skull
Everton defender Michael Keane suffered a hairline fracture of his skull during Saturday’s draw at Bournemouth. The England centre-back clashed heads with team-mate Idrissa Gueye in injury time and was taken to hospital after six minutes of treatment on the pitch. “Michael Keane has sustained a small hairline fracture of the skull but suffered no…