Doose Nomhwange left home one morning, unaware that danger lurked ahead. Her friend of many years lured her to a man who traded in human parts. But fate pulled a fast one on her captor who, on the verge of killing her, became mad. Call it a demonstration of power between the forces of light [...]
A tradomedical practitioner in Lagos has claimed that a 20-year old woman delivered a tortoise and a baby girl in his clinic. The woman, Rasheedat Raimi, said she had carried the pregnancy for 10 months before she eventually delivered the baby girl and the tortoise at a trado-medical clinic on Mutairu Street, Off Ijegun Road, [...]
A despondent palm wine tapper, identified as Nwandu (Surname withheld) operating in Ugbolu community near Asaba, yesterday, allegedly committed suicide following his inability to make love to his wife in the last few weeks. Reports said that the palm wine tapper, a native of Ogbaru in Anambra state, has been married to his wife for [...]
A teenage girl has won a $109 million payout after a life-threatening reaction to children’s ibuprofen left her with brain damage, 20 per lung capacity, blindness and caused 90 per cent of her skin to fall off. $109mln Payout After Medicine Damaged Girl’s Brain, Leaved Blind, Made 90% Of Her Skin To Fall Off A [...]
Mr. Ladoja is an ex-governor of Oyo State, South West Nigeria. Four years after he was arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos, a former Governor of Oyo State, Rashidi Ladoja, will tell the Court of Appeal why he should not be prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Ladoja’s Appeal, 4 [...]
(Reuters) – A man from Ivory Coast doused himself with fuel and set himself on fire at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on Thursday after showing officials a deportation order, police said. The incident occurred in a customs police office in Terminal 3 of the airport, Italy’s largest. Police said the man had poured a canister of [...]
A landmine explosion ripped through a civilian vehicle in southern Afghanistan and killed six members of a family, provincial authorities said Saturday. “Six people all onboard — two elderly men, two women and two men — were killed in a landmine explosion in Nad Ali district of Helmand province,” Ahmad Zirak, the provincial governor’s spokesman. [...]
Policemen from Meiran Police Division in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government, Lagos State have rearrested Mr. Taju Adejumo, who allegedly raped and impregnated a minor, Deborah Jolaosho. It was learnt that Adejumo was arrested on Wednesday and immediately charged to an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court. PUNCH Metro on Wednesday did an expose on how the 15-year-old girl was [...]
More facts emerged, Monday, as the Oyo State Police Command paraded three suspects alleged to have been involved in the kidnap of Mrs. Titilayo Oluwole Rotimi, wife of the former Governor of Western State last year. While parading three of the suspects at the State Police Command, Eleyele, the Commissioner of Police in the state, [...]
Although Yaba College of Technology is in the heart of a city as social as Lagos, it is a no-alcohol institution for students and lecturers alike. Segun Olugbile writes on how the college community are coping with the policy: Kola, Austin and Femi (not their real names) have just finished some bottles of beer at [...]
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