Author: Jane Okoro
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- A man identified as Mallam Umar Tasiu, in Minna, Niger State, has been reportedly beaten to death by his former in-laws. According to a source close to the family, Umar Tasiu had gone to see his two kids who currently stay with his former wife in her father’s house. The source said, “He went to see them and his former in-laws who didn’t want him to come to their house tied and flogged him until he died in their house.” READ ALSO: 22-Yr-Old Tailor Beaten To Death By Colleagues In Lagos The source who pleaded…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- A Nigerian man has taken to social media to lament his heartbreak after he found out his girlfriend was constantly having sex with her neighbor and doing hard drugs. In a post on the X platform, formerly Twitter, the yet-to-be identified man disclosed that he had been in the relationship for three years without knowing his girlfriend for who she really was, which has shattered his heart. The post reads, “I come with a heavy heart, the worst has been done to me. My girlfriend has shattered my heart and I don’t know what to…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- An off-duty pilot has been arrested and charged with 83 counts of attempted murder after allegedly trying to shut down a plane’s engines during a flight, causing the pilot to divert the aircraft. Alaska Airlines pilot, Joe Emerson, who was sitting in the spare seat of the cockpit, was “subdued” by the two pilots flying the aircraft and arrested after the plane landed safely at around 6.30pm local time on 22 October. Horizon Air flight 2059 from Everett to San Francisco was said to have diverted to Portland, where the 44-year-old suspect was held by…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Unknown gunmen have reportedly kidnapped one of the senior lecturers, Dr. Comfort Adokwe of Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK). This is coming barely two weeks after the kidnap of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC) of the State University and four other students. According to reports, Adokwe, a lecturer in the Faculty of Administration at the university and a Deputy Director, Gender Studies, of the school, was abducted by the gunmen from her residence in Angwan Jaba in Keffi. READ ALSO: Police Confirm Abduction Of Four Nasarawa Varsity Students The Chairman of the Community Development Association,…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Adamawa State Police Command has arrested six suspected kidnappers who posed as customers and kidnapped a 9-year-old boy in Mubi South Local Government Area of the State. Spokesperson of the command, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, who disclosed this in a statement to journalists, said one tricycle, three handsets, mat, and other items were recovered from the suspects. According to the PPRO, the suspects demanded a ransom of N5m from the victim’s father. “The Adamawa Police Command has on 19 October, arrested six suspected kidnappers for allegedly kidnapping a 9-year-old boy and demanding N5 million…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- A new mum has shared a video of her mother breastfeeding her child. According to her, she had left her child with her mother to run an errand. When the baby became hungry, the grandmother breastfed the grandchild. The video has however received mixed reactions. While some maintain that it is normal, others stress that it doesn’t sit well with them for another woman to breastfeed a child when the mother is alive and can lactate. READ ALSO: Reactions As Davido, Chioma Leave U.S. Hospital With Their Twins @linda.d.akins commented, “Thank God I married American…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – A Nigerian man has taken to social media to lament his loss of N35 Million in an online platform known as Patricia, for buying and selling Giftcards and Bitcoin. The yet-to-be-identified man made the disclosure in a distress post on Sunday, via the Tiktok platform. The post read: “I am dying silently. I lost 35million on Patricia; All the money I made when I travelled outside Nigeria. I invested all in “MyPatricia.com”. I’m home now and I have nothing left with me. “Fejiro Hanu please release my money. It’s over 6 months now and…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- A protest rocked the Sankwala community in Obanliku Local Government Area of Cross River State over the death of a middle-aged woman simply identified as Rebecca during child delivery at a State general hospital. According to reports, Rebecca was attended to by a ward orderly in the hospital on 19 October, when the only doctor in the hospital had retired to sleep. The protesting members of the community said the incident was the third under such circumstances in the last few months in the same hospital, Daily Trust reports. READ ALSO: Medical Doctors Protest, Abandon…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Bauchi command has said it arrested a 500-level Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) student for stabbing a 17-year-old student to death. NSCDC commandant Ilelaboye Oyejide made this known on Sunday while briefing journalists in Bauchi on the incident. Mr Oyejide said the suspect was arrested in Misau local council. He said the command received information that the deceased, Umar Usman, a secondary school student from Misau, was found wrapped in a white cloth and dumped at Misau bypass. “This is a case of culpable homicide,” he said, adding…
LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed that three of its inspectors were caught on camera “flagrantly extorting money from commercial motorcyclists.” Spokesman for the State’s Command, Omolola Odutola, on Sunday said the inspectors, on 19 October, were involved in “an incident of professional misconduct while on visibility Policing duty at the Maawu Bus Stop in the Agbado area of the State.” The suspects were identified as Inspectors Ikhanorba Lucky, Paul Sunday and Edwin Ekeogu. READ ALSO: Lagos Police Commissioner Orders Removal Of Divisional Police Officer Over Extortion Of N200,000 Odutola Said “These officers were…