A 14-year-old girl was on Monday alleged to have been raped by her landlord’s son in the Alakuko area of Lagos. The incident was brought to light by an X.com user @Rhwaley, who shared videos of the victim after the alleged crime had happened. In the shared video on X.com which our correspondent watched on Tuesday, the minor could be seen crying and her jeans stained with blood. In the tweet, @Rhwaley alleged that when...
An unidentified man allegedly killed his eight-year-old son in the Epe area of Lagos State over a misplaced sewing thread that belonged to him. PUNCH Metro gathered on Tuesday that the incident occurred around 10:00 a.m. on August 5, when the father was about to use his sewing thread. Upon discovering that the minor had misplaced his sewing thread, the suspect allegedly became enraged and doused the child with Premium Motor Spirit, commonly known as...
An incident of alleged rape has been reported in Alakuko, Lagos, where a 14-year-old girl was reportedly raped by the son of her landlord. The incident occurred yesterday, according to an anonymous X user, who tweets anonymously as #Rhwaley, who shared videos of the victim. Rhwaley added that when the family confronted the landlord about the incident, he dismissed their concerns, saying “Nothing will happen”. Sharing videos of the victim #Rhwaley wrote, “🔞🔞 – A...
Some suspected cultists on Friday night reportedly killed one 48-year-old PoS operator, Fatai Kehinde under the Kuto bridge, Abeokuta. The PoS operator popularly called Faithy and son of the Baale of Kuto Community, Abeokuta was said to have been killed by assailants who chased him from his shop inside Kuto market to under bridge. The killing is said to be coming on the heels of the murder of another young man said to be a...
A Kaduna State resident, Malam Mohammed, father of the 18-year-old Ismail Mohammed, who was killed in Samaru Zaria on Tuesday, has accused soldiers of the Nigerian Army of following his son home and shooting him dead. In an interview with newsmen, Malam Mohammed said that soldiers who were scaring people away during the ongoing nationwide hunger protest tagged #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria followed his son to their house and shot him dead. He said, “My son,...
The son of the former Sinaloa drug cartel leader El Chapo pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a raft of charges linked to one of the world’s biggest illicit narcotics operations, prosecutors said. Joaquin Guzman Lopez was arrested in a scheme allegedly orchestrated by Washington without the involvement of Mexico, in which he was detained in Texas on Thursday. The judge in the case denied bail and remanded him in custody, ordering a case management hearing...
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested 44-year-old Paul Samuel Edu for allegedly raping a member of the National Youth Service Corps in the state. The state Commissioner of Police, CP Waheed Ayilara, disclosed this on Tuesday while briefing newsmen at the command’s headquarters, Ikot Akpan-Abia, Uyo. He said the suspect, a son of the landlord to the NYSC member, was arrested on Saturday, July 20, 2024, at the Ukana Iba village, Essien Udim...
President Bola Tinubu made a constitutional breach on the appointment of a new management team for the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), SaharaReporters has gathered. Tinubu in March in a press statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, appointed Umar Abdullahi Umar as the new Executive Director of the agency. Umar is the son of ex-Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State and the embattled National Chairman of the...
