Author: Vincent Osuwo

An angry mob killed two suspected one-chance operators in the Lugbe district of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Saturday. Our correspondent reported that the mob set fire to the vehicle reportedly used to commit their crimes. A commercial driver named Ahmed told our correspondent that the accused threw a victim out of the moving car. He claimed the mob pursued the vehicle and caught up with it at Dunamis Church. “What happened was that after a victim of one chance was thrown out of a moving vehicle, some people chased the vehicle and caught up with them after Dunamis…

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has won all chairmanship and councilorship seats in the Katsina State local government elections held on Saturday. As the results came in, Salima Boyi, the state head of the Inter-Party Advisory Council, congratulated the winners during a news event on Sunday. “While we may have had our differences and concerns, we have conceded defeat and acknowledged the significant strides made in promoting democracy in our dear state,” he said. The election saw participation from five political parties: Accord, African Action Congress, African Development Congress, All Progressives Congress, and the Booth Party. Lawal Alhassan, Chairman…

Human rights activist and lawyer Dele Farotimi, on Sunday, disclosed that he was still faced with four separate suits in different states filed by members of the Aare Afe Babalola law office. Farotimi revealed this at the Toyin Falola Interviews on Sunday. Farotimi’s disclosure comes after the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), agreed on January 27 to abandon the lawsuits filed against him. Following Afe Babalola’s plea to the police commissioner in Ekiti State alleging that Farotimi defamed him in a book titled ‘Nigeria and its Criminal Justice System,’ the police arrested the activist…

The Ogun State Police Command has initiated a manhunt for an unidentified woman after Inspector Haruna Mohammed, an officer of the Lagos State Police Command’s Ishashi Division, was discovered dead in a hotel at Anthony Uzum Estate in Oyeyemi Akute, Ogun State. Omolola Odutola, a spokeswoman for the Ogun State Police Command, confirmed the inspector’s death on Sunday, saying the woman had booked into the hotel room with the victim but left shortly after. The inspector allegedly checked into the hotel with an unknown woman at 1:00 a.m. on Saturday. A few hours later, his lifeless body was discovered in…

The Anambra State government has ordered the freezing of the bank accounts of popular native doctor Chidozie Nwangwu, also known as Akwa Okuko Tiwara Aki. The decision comes following disturbing discoveries at the Akwa Ọkụkọ Tiwara Aki shrine. The state government has also launched an investigation into his financial transactions over the past 10 years. The operatives of the Anambra State security outfit, Agunechemba, reportedly arrested the famous native doctor, popular for displaying a flamboyant lifestyle on social media platforms. The arrest was first reported on the Anambra State Government X account, formerly Twitter, on Saturday. According to the Anambra…

World number one, Jannik Sinner, has accepted an immediate three-month ban from tennis after striking a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency over his two positive drug tests last year. The 23-year-old Italian, who won the Australian Open last month, is suspended from February 9 to May 4. He will be able to compete in the second Grand Slam of the year, the French Open, which begins on May 19. Sinner was earlier cleared of all wrongdoing by an independent tribunal after testing positive for the banned drug clostebol in March. Wada had sought a two-year ban after filing an…

The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis would be admitted to a hospital in Rome for bronchitis treatment and tests. The 88-year-old will visit the Gemelli hospital following his morning audiences on Friday, according to a brief statement. The Pope has suffered bronchitis symptoms for several days and has asked officials to read his prepared addresses at recent engagements. “This morning, after his audiences, Pope Francis will be admitted to the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic for necessary diagnostic tests and to continue hospital treatment for his ongoing bronchitis,” the statement said. On Wednesday, the Pope asked a priest to read part…

A 14-year-old boy has been killed and four other people injured in a knife attack in southern Austria on Saturday, police said, adding they have arrested a 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker. “A man randomly attacked passersby with a knife,” police spokesman Rainer Dionisio told AFP of the incident in the city of Villach. “One victim, a 14-year-old boy, died,” he added. Two other men suffered serious injuries, while another two men were lightly injured, Dionisio added. The incident occurred on Saturday, shortly before 4:00 p.m. local time (1500 GMT), in the city center of Carinthia province. According to Dionisio, a…

An Indian court’s ruling that a man’s forced “unnatural sex” with his wife is not a crime has prompted widespread indignation and revived calls for better rights for married women. The contentious judgment has also resurrected the topic of marital rape in a country that has consistently resisted criminalizing it. Earlier this week, a high court judge in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh released a 40-year-old man convicted by a trial court in 2019 of rape and unnatural intercourse with his wife, who died within hours of the alleged attack. The lower court also ruled the guy guilty of…

New York State police have charged five people with the murder of a missing transgender man who was allegedly tortured for more than a month. Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old from Minnesota, was reported missing on February 9. He landed in New York in September and then lost contact with his loved ones, according to police. In a televised news conference on Friday, police claimed the case was “one of the most horrific crimes” they had ever seen, adding that Nordquist had been exposed to “deeply disturbing” abuse for several months beginning in December. All five suspects are in police custody…