Category: Crime

37 pupils stabbed at Chinese primary school by security guard

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‌ At a primary school in southern China on Thursday, a knife-wielding attacker wounded 37 students and two adults, officials said, with local media identifying a security guard as the perpetrator. All the victims, including teaching staff, were sent to hospital but were not in a life-threatening condition, authorities in Cangwu County, Guangxi region, said. The incident at the Wangfu Central Primary School happened at 8:30 am when children would normally arrive for class. The attacker, reportedly aged around 50, was “under control”, the government said. “37 students suffered mild…

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Punishment for rapists not harsh enough– MSSN

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Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria in Lagos State has recommended stiffer punishment for rapists in the country. The Amirah (female leader) of the MSSN in Lagos State, Basheeroh Majekodunmi, made this known in a press statement to condemn the rape and killing of undergraduates in Nigeria. Majekodunmi said this a few hours after members of the House of Representatives rejected castration as a punishment for rapists in Nigeria on Thursday. She lamented the rape and murder of 18-year-old Barakat Bello, a student of the Department of Science Laboratory Technology, Federal…

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Rape: Fatoyinbo case forwarded to Ministry of Justice -Police

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In a letter addressed to Lagos-based photographer, Busola Dakolo, wife of Timi Dakolo, the Nigeria Police Force says it has forwarded the alleged rape case of the Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Biodun Fatoyinbo, to the Director of Public Prosecution of the Federation at the Federal Ministry of Justice. In the letter signed by the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Administration at the Force Criminal Investigation Department, the police said the DPP would study the case file and then give advice. The letter read in…

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Retired army captain defiles four-year-old niece, blames alcohol

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A retired army captain, Bassey Ekanem, has been arrested by the police in Calabar, for allegedly defiling his four-year old niece. The incident happened at Ekanem’s residence at 12, Edim Ibangha Street, Big Qua Town, Calabar. According to a source, Ekanem, who is in his 60s, claimed he was under the influence of alcohol. A neighbour, who pleaded not to be named, revealed that Ekanem, “had sent the lady living with him to the market; then he lured the little girl into his apartment and started fingering her and broke…

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Obaseki orders investigation into death of UNIBEN student raped inside church

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Vera Uwaila, a 100 level Microbiology student of University of Benin, UNIBEN, weekend, died from injuries sustained after she was gang-raped and hit with a fire extinguisher in her church last Wednesday. It was gathered that the 22-years-old undergraduate was attacked and beaten to a pulp at the Ikpoba Hill branch of Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, in Benin, Edo State, where she had gone to read. The assailants, it was further gathered, left her to die, but she was later rushed to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital,…

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US officer charged with murder over George Floyd’s death

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After three nights of violent protests left parts of the city in flames, the Minneapolis police officer accused of killing a handcuffed African American man was charged with murder on Friday, as authorities declared a curfew. Derek Chauvin, the white officer filmed kneeling on the neck of a handcuffed George Floyd for nearly nine minutes, was charged with one count of third degree murder – unintentionally causing a death – and one count of negligent manslaughter. “This case is now ready, and we have charged it,” said county prosecutor Mike…

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Court jails six NAF personnel over Badeh’s murder

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Six Nigerian Air Force personnel, who were aides to the former Chief of Defence Staff, Late Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh have been jailed by a General Court Martial sitting in Abuja. Badeh was reportedly shot dead in December 2018 by gunmen while on his way back from his farm. The six air force personnel were on Friday awarded various sentences by the GCM which sat at the NAF Base, Bill Clinton Drive, Abuja. According to the NAF in a release on Saturday morning by the Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore…

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Protest in US for second night over police killing of black man

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During a second night of protests in the US city of Minneapolis on Wednesday, demonstrators clashed with police and set a store alight over the killing of a black man by an officer who held him to the ground with a knee on his neck. Police fired tear gas and formed a human barricade to keep protesters from climbing a fence surrounding the Third Precinct, where the officers accused of killing George Floyd worked before they were fired on Tuesday. They pushed protesters back as the crowd grew, a day…

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Obinwanne to plead guilty for $11 million US fraud

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Invictus Obi, Obinwanne Okeke, has indicated wish to plead guilty for the $11 million fraud he is being tried for in the United States (US). United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Okeke and at least six other persons were involved in the crimes. “There is a probable cause to believe Okeke has conspired with several individuals to access computers without authorisation and using such access to cause the fraudulent wire transfer of funds,” FBI’s special agent Marshall Ward said in an affidavit he deposed to before Justice Lawrence…

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Teenage girl fakes own death to avoid financial pressure from mother

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19-year-old Margaret Ikumu of Oni community in Oju Local Government Area of Benue, has faked her own death on social media to avoid financial pressure from her mother. DSP Bala Elkana, the Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos State, made this known on Sunday. Elkana said that Ikumu, through her Facebook account, reported to have died a few days ago and was secretly buried by her two friends, Marvelous Mary and Nneka Buddy, at Ajah area. “The family of the fake deceased further stated that they were able to establish…

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