Thursday 18 December 2014

2 sentenced to death for stealing fowls in Osun state


The Osun High Court in Okuku, has sentenced two men to death for stealing fowls. The convicts, Olowookere Seguana & Morakinyo Sunday were found guilty of breaking into the home of the complainant Balogun Tope and stealing his fowls. The men had been in his house before to steal.

Nigerian Fraudster gets 63 years in prison for stealing N4.9million




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Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has convicted and sentenced one Benjamin Segun Bright to 63 years imprisonment without option of fine.

Nigerian prison inmates now have the right to vote during elections


Justice Mohammed Lima of the Federal High Court in Benin, Edo State, yesterday ruled that inmates of all prisons across Nigeria have the right to vote in all elections conducted in the country.

14yr old boy executed in South Carolina in 1944 finally exonerated


70 years after 14 year old George Stinney Jnr. was executed for allegedly beating two young white girls to death in Alcolu, South Carolina, a judge yesterday Wednesday Dec 17th threw out his murder conviction.

Swiss-Nigerian footballer Steven Ukoh switches nationality to Nigerian to play for Super Eagles


World football governing body, FIFA, has cleared former Swiss U-20 international, Steven Archibong Effiong Ukoh, to play for the Super Eagles at senior level. The versatile midfielder, born on June 19, 1991 to Nigerian parents in Berne, Switzerland, currently plays for Biel-Bienne FC in the European country but has now switched his nationality to Nigerian, to enable him play for Super Eagles.

Dad sentenced to life in prison for killing his two daughters after fight with ex-wife

The Tanzania man, Charles Mihayo, 36, who murdered his two daughters at his home in Melbourne on April 20th 2014 and then dressed them in floral dresses in an act of revenge against his ex-wife has been sentenced to life in prison.

23-year-old Medical Student Jumps Under Moving Train After Failing Exams

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Anita Trivedi, a 23-year-old Kings Collegemedical student, has committed suicide by jumping under a moving train after failing her exams.
Daily Mail reports that Trivedi, from Newham, East London, was depressed after having to resit her fourth year at medical school.

Mom Murders 22-Year Old Undergraduate Daughter For Allegedly Being A Witch



A middle-aged woman in Ekiti, Mrs. Victoria Aina Adanikin, has allegedly murdered her own daughter, Miss. Oluwafunmilayo Rosaline Abosede Adanikin, a 300 level student of the Federal College of Educa­tion, Ikere-Ekiti.

Adanikin, who until the alleged murder of her daughter lived in Adanikin compound, beside Baba Ewenla house in Idamodu area of Emure-Ekiti, Emure Local Government Area of Ekiti State, was said to have put an end to the life of her 22-year-old daughter on the night of December 7 at their apartment.