Adamu Enock, a widower, requesting the refund of his dowry and other expenses incurred in a failed marriage proposal, stabbed his estranged lover within the premises of Yola Criminal Area Court where the case was being heard. Police said she was in a critical condition in a hospital. Enock is a father of three, who proposed to his estranged lover, Hosea Ashini, a divorcee with four children, but the marriage proposal failed to materialise. Disappointed, Enock reportedly sought the refund of N120,000 he incurred in an attempt to consummate the…

A grandmother, Funmilayo Olalere, has been arrested by police in Osun State, for beating her grandchild till she lost an eye. The grandmother, who lives in Amondo village, near Ile-Ife, was accused of assaulting her grandchild living with her. It was gathered that the suspect beat the victim with a broom, which stocked in one eye and damaged it. Rather than taking the victim to a hospital after she sustained the injury, the grandmother was said to have opted for self-treatment and applied urine on the eye. The Osun State…

A teenage Government Secondary School student, has attempted killing her teacher with a pistol in Cross River State. It was gathered that the student, whose name was withheld, was arrested at Ikot Ewa, in the Akpabuyo Local Government Area of the state. The Chairman of the council, Emmanuel Offiong-Bassey, who spoke to journalists on Thursday, said he was told the suspect was about to shoot her target when she was disarmed. He said, “How she got the gun, I do not know. The information I have, which may not be very…