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One Mustapha Aliyu, 22, has been arrested by police in Abuja with the freshly severed head of a three-year-old boy, identified as Usman Awalu. Aliyu reportedly confessed that he had beheaded four children, adding that he was paid N170,000 for every male head and N160,000 for the female head he supplied to his boss, who is at large. Aliyu was also said to have informed detectives during interrogation that he had so far supplied four human heads to his master. Parading the suspect and others in Abuja on Friday, the…

22-year-old Joseph Ogbu, a domestic worker, has been arrested by officers of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly stabbing his employer, Oreoluwa John, to death in the Surulere area of the state. Oreoluwa’s mother, Adejoke, was said to have also slumped and died due to the shock of her daughter’s murder. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, said in a statement on Thursday that an argument ensued between Oreoluwa and Ogbu when she told him to clean the house around 9pm on Wednesday and adding that the…

A self acclaimed Prophet, Dotun Ogunlade, popularly called Arole Jesu, has been arrested by the Oyo State Police Command on Thursday, over the murder of a 25-year-old housewife, Bosede Oguntade, who was lured to Igboora in the Ibarapa area of the state via Facebook as by the Prophet and his accomplice, identified simply as Mutiu. The mutilated and decomposing corpse of the victim was exhumed in the presence of journalists and sympathisers, who wailed and rained curses on the prophet and his accomplice, for allegedly murdering the victim and grinding her body…

Police in Abuja have paraded three secondary school teachers arrested recently for allegedly aiding and abating malpractices in West African Examinations Council, WAEC, in three states in the South. The teachers, who were paraded before newsmen at the Force Headqarters, Abuja, by the Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba, however, feigned ignorance of their offence, as according them, they merely snapped questions of examinations already written by students with their phones, saying they didn’t know such act constituted an offence. According to them, their actions were merely to later…

A 40-year-old man, Emeka Okwuosa has been remanded in Ogwashi prison by Magistrate court in Nsukwa, Delta State for allegedly raping a two-year-old girl. Okwuosa who was remanded for unlawful carnal knowledge of the minor was arraigned by the police yesterday and will be in the prison pending advice from Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP). The case has been adjourned to July 10. Okwuasa allegedly raped the child on May 31. The little girl lives with her parents in Nsukwa in a compound owned by Okwuasa. Okwuasa’s arrest and prosecution…