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 Aminu Yar'Adua, son of Nigeria's former    president, the late Umar Yar'Adua, who was recently remanded in prison for killing four persons, has been secretly released.  It  was reported that Aminu was remanded in prison custody last Thursday, after he was arraigned following charges bordering on dangerous driving. He was alleged to have knocked down six persons, killing four, including a two-year-old boy on June 23, 2021. According to the police's First Information Report (FIR) tendered in court by the prosecutor, Insp. Zakka Musa, the accused had while driving along Yola bye-pass on June 23, 2021, crushed six people as a result of excessive speeding. The court heard that four of the victims were killed while the other two were left injured following the accident.  ” Those that died in the accident were identified as Aisha Umar (30), Aisha Mamadu (32), Suleiman Abubakar (2), and Jummai Abubakar (30), while, Rejoice Annu (28) and Hajara Aliyu (27) sustained...

  Nigerian, Alowonle Oluwajuwon Gilbert, has been sentenced to death in Malaysia over the death of a nurse. Gilbert had been accused of killing Siti Kharina, the Chief Nurse of Serdang Hospital in Malaysia in 2019. On Wednesday, the High Court sent him to the gallows to be hanged after having been found guilty. Judge Ab Karim Ab Rahman gave the judgement after finding that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubts. According to the judge, Gilbert's testimony that he left the victim’s house on May 8, 2019, turned out to be false. The judge also noted that the accused claims contradicted the footage of a closed-circuit television camera at the Third Avenue Condominium, Cyberjaya, which recorded him leaving the premises on May 9. “ The testimony by the accused that he was no longer with the victim on May 8, 2019, and had left the residence by then, is merely a denial,“ the judge said. Ab Rahman added that the defence could not counter the traces of blood and Deoxyribonu...

   The Nigerian Army says it has launched a manhunt for the soldier who allegedly killed his lover, Jennifer Ugadu, an undergraduate of Niger Delta University, Ammasoma, Bayelsa. The Director, Army Public Relations, Onyema Nwachukwu, said in a statement, on Thursday, it was alleged that the student was shot in her apartment by the suspect now at large. Nwachukwu, a brigadier-general, said there was no place for such barbaric act in the army, adding that the Nigerian army had commiserated with the family of the deceased. According to him, “ Nigeria army is an institution that is accountable to the people and would ensure the justice is served”. The NA has taken the allegation seriously and joint investigation has commenced, while effort to profile and ascertain the true identity of the suspect is ongoing. The NA being a professional and disciplined organisation will continue to uphold and respect the fundamental human rights of citizens as enshrined in the 1999 constitution of ...

the Cross River Police Command have arrested the Pastor of United Evangelical Church, Michael Bassey, for unlawful possession of a human skull. The police also arrested 25 other suspects for various offences committed in the state. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday in Calabar, the capital of Cross River, the state police commissioner, Mr Sikiru Akande, said the pastor, 45, was arrested following a complaint of threat to life from a concerned citizen.  Akande said the suspect was arrested at No. 56 Uwanse by Asuquo Ekpo Street in Calabar South. “ The suspect was arrested with one human skull tied with the complainant’s picture and carved human image with red clothes. Investigation is still ongoing and the suspect will be arraigned in court ,” the police commissioner said. The police also paraded one Christian Edem-Eyo, 34, for allegedly killing and beheading sixty-five-year-old Uduak Okpo.  He was said to have buried her head and the body separately on June 6. Akande also said...

   The 300-level Mass Communication student of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, who was arrested last Wednesday, over the murder of Chief Executive Officer, Super TV, Usifo Ataga, in a service apartment in the Lekki area of Lagos State, says she was able to kill him because he was weak. Ojukwu also lamented that she has been seeing her victim's face in her dream since she took his life. She made the revelations about the murder of the 50-year-old. Th 21-year-old lady said she wished she would wake up to realise the whole saga was only a dream. " I have never had peace since the day I was arrested. Never in my wildest imagination did I envisage I would kill a human being. I see his face in my dream every night. At times I would be scared to sleep. I have been begging God for forgiveness. This is not what I wanted for myself. I don’t know what fate holds for me. I am also begging his family to forgive me, especially his children. Ah! God, what have I done?” she exclaimed, buryin...

  Widow of 42-year-old Oguchi Unachukwu, who was allegedly murdered by an air force officer in Imo State, Mrs Ijeoma Unachukwu, has asked the state Commissioner of Police, Abutu Yaro, to ensure that the killers do not escape justice. Oguchi, who was based in Hamburg, Germany, was heading to the Sam Mbakwe Airport, Owerri, on Monday, to catch a flight to Lagos preparatory to catching a Germany-bound flight same day when he was shot in the forehead at point-blank range by a suspected air force operative. The remains of the deceased were deposited in a morgue of the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri. The deceased was said to have been in Owerri for about three months and dedicated his second daughter in church two months ago. In a petition dated June 1, Ijeoma disclosed that she witnessed the incident, adding that she was in the same vehicle with her husband when he was killed. She said her husband was shot by the trigger-happy air force officer in an unprovoked execution style in front ...

Minister of Niger Delta, Senator Godswill Akpabio says he will take legal action against an investigative journalist, David Hundeyin for publishing "false and defamatory statements" against him. The former senator, through a letter by his legal representatives gave the journalist 14 days to retract the publication against him and his wife, Mrs Ekaette Unoma Akpabio, or face the law.   Hundeyin posted a 3-page copy of the letter served him by Star Attorneys on his Twitter page on Thursday. The letter was addressed to him in care of Business Day, which the journalist kicked against and also replied the Minister to go ahead and sue him. In the letter, Akpabio quoted Hundeyin as saying he defamed his wife as the owner of Davok Suites where the suspected serial killer, Frank Uduak, murdered the Akwa Ibom job seeker, Ini Umoren, late last month. “ In one of your Tweets via Twitter handle @DavidHundeyin of 11th May, 2021, you published the following statement to the entire world: It...