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Harela Uba, a 22-year-old housewife, has confessed to killing her three-day-old stepson in the Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. She revealed that an evil spirit drove her into killing her stepson with an insecticide known as ‘Ota Pia-Pia’. It was learnt that the suspect’s husband, Saidu Uba of Shakodna village in Shiroro, reported the incident to the police. He told the police that his second wife, Fa’iza, of the same address, went into the bathroom and left her three-day-old baby boy in her room. Saidu explained that when…

25 students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho, Oyo State, have been arrested by operatives from the Advance Fee Fraud Unit of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, for alleged involvement in cybercrime, including romance scam, possession of forged documents and obtaining money by false pretences. The students, aged between 18 and 29, were arrested in their off-campus hostels following raids carried out between Monday and Thursday by the operatives. The EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement in Abuja on Thursday that the raids were based…

Gracious David West, suspected Port Harcourt serial killer, has told the Nigerian police that he used pillowcases to tie a victim before killing her in a hotel room in Rukpokwu, about 18 kilometres from Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital city. 26-year-old West, whom the police said is a cultist, was arrested on Wednesday on East-West Road en route to Uyo from Port Harcourt. West said in a video the Nigerian police posted to its official Twitter handle he had transactional sex with a nameless victim. Hours later, the victim…

25-year-old Kehinde Musa, who sent his enstranged lover, Rasheedat Animashaun, a suicide text message after she ended their relationship, has allegedly committed suicide at his residence, No. 56 Modele Street, Surulere, Lagos State. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, said in a statement on Thursday that the deceased locked himself in his room and drank an insecticide suspected to be Sniper, adding that the bereaved family, whom Rasheedat had informed of the suicide note, found Musa unconscious in his room. He stated that the 25-year-old, died while being…

A 300-level student of the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Bukola Odeyemi, has allegedly stabbed her 22-year-old lover, John Iju, to death. The incident, sources said, occurred at one of the private hostels being used by students of the university around 10pm. Sources said the 20-year-old student of the Department of Biology Education had a quarrel with her boyfriend, also a student of the institution, over his inability to give her the N2,500 she requested for a hairdo. According to the sources, the duo engaged in a heated argument over…