A Magistrates’ Court sitting at Iyaganku in Ibadan on Monday ordered that a nursing mother, Damilola Opeyemi be remanded in Abolongo Correctional facility, Oyo Town for allegedly stabbing her husband to death over dinner. Magistrate P. O . Adetuyibi said the remand is pending legal advice from the Oyo State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP). She adjourned the matter until …

A yet-to-be-identified woman has breathed her last after hearing the news of her son’s death. The late son, identified as Christian Ugbede Abuka, was said to have died in an auto crash while returning home from Kwara State where he had gone for his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) documentation. The deceased elder brother, Joseph Abuka, confirmed the news on …

A woman, 25-year-old identified as Rahma Sulaiman is currently cooling her feet at the Kano police custody for allegedly faking the kidnap of her own six years old daughter, Hafsat Kabiru, and demanding a ransom of N3 million from her husband, Kabiru Shehu to regain freedom. Similarly, another woman, identified as Zainab Rabi’u, 45 years old, was arrested for arranging …

A woman who was repeatedly raped by both her father and brother as a child has revealed that a crucial medical document she had no memory of helped jail the pair. Sarah Sidebottom, 54, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, has spoken of her relief after her father Arthur William Bowditch, 73, and her brother, Arthur Stephen Bowditch, 54, was jailed for …

Tragedy struck in Oke-Keesi, Itoko area of Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Saturday as a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze in her rented apartment. It was gathered that the deceased committed suicide over her inability to repay a loan she took from a microfinance bank (name withheld). A source, Rasheed Aina, who resides near the deceased’s …

A woman was pulled out alive after being trapped in the rubble of a building that collapsed 52 hours earlier due to a devastating earthquake in southeast Turkey. Pictures from broadcaster NTV on Wednesday showed emergency services in the province of Kahramanmaraş, near the border with Syria, carrying the woman on a stretcher to the ambulance. The 58-year-old was reportedly …

A couple, Taiwo and Salawa Ajalorun, and six others have been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly selling human parts. The suspects, who allegedly killed three persons before they were arrested, reportedly sold human legs for N30,000, and a heart for N50,000 to their buyers, who used them for money rituals. In a statement on …