Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has revealed that another Nigerian has been arrested at Jeddah Airport, in Saudi Arabia, for allegedly smuggling about 1,138g of cocaine. Dabiri-Erewa expressed disappointment that this was coming shortly after a Nigerian lady was executed in the same country for a related offence. “The sad thing is that in the midst of talking about 20 Nigerians on death row, even as eight had been executed, just yesterday (Thursday), another Nigerian, Wahid Somade, was arrested at Jeddah Airport with about…

One Kabiru Oke, and his son, Faruq, have been arrested by operatives of the Lagos State Police Command, for allegedly raping and impregnating the daughter of the sister to Kabiru’s wife in the Egbeda area of the state. The suspects were alleged to have taken advantage of the fact that the victim lived with them by having carnal knowledge of her and threatened to kill her if she revealed the molestation to anyone. The state’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, in a statement on Sunday, said the suspects…

A 16-year-old Senior Secondary School Three student, Chibuzo Ohaneme, has stabbed his female classmate, Olamma Ekwebelem, to death in Umuoli Ikpem in the Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State on Thursday. A source revealed that Ohaneme was enraged because Ekwebelem had repeatedly turned down his relationship proposal to her. It was gathered that while the murderer hails from Umuohum Umuna in the Onuimo LGA of the state, the slain teenager, who was to sit for Senior Secondary Certificate Examination in June, hailed from Ikpem. The boy and the girl…

Colleagues of Dr. Stephen Urueye, have described his death as cruel and sad. Urueye, who was on housemanship at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos, was attacked by some hoodlums around 9pm on Thursday in the Canal area, near the campus while he was seeing off a friend who visited him in his lodge. He was knifed in the thigh and dispossessed of cash and an ATM card, by the hoodlums. The police had arrested two persons in connection with the attack on the 25-year-old doctor, who was the…

Investigation has commenced into the alleged molestation of a four-year-old pupil of the University of Lagos Women Society Nursery and Primary School, Akoka, Lagos. It was learnt that the victim was allegedly molested on the school premises by a driver identified as Abiodun Matthew. Matthew, it was gathered, usually pick two other pupils at the school after closing hours on the instruction of their parents. The driver, in the course of time, was said to have become close to a teacher at the school, identified as Charity Madumere. Madumere is said…