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Death

December 13, 2022

Three men to die by hanging for raping Unilorin student to death 

On June 2, 2021, the suspects; Abdulazeez Ismail, Ajala Oluwatimileyin, and Oyeyemi Omogbolahan, raped to death a 300-level student of Unilorin.

Gallows
November 9, 2022

Flooding: UNICEF says 27 million kids at risk, 840,000 Nigerian children displaced

UNICEF says overwhelming flooding has affected no fewer than 27.7 million children across 27 countries worldwide.

Flood
September 30, 2022

Police investigating boy’s death after injections: Hundeyin 

The video also showed the child’s lifeless body on a stretcher with the father crying beside him.

Photo of sick people in hospital bed in nigeria used to illustrate the story
September 23, 2022

Ex-minister sentenced to death for taking $92.39 million bribe

The minister was on Friday sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes, manipulating the stock market and illegally possessing firearms.

Court
July 5, 2022

FRSC records increase in death rate on Badagry expressway in six months

The Badagry command of the FRSC had a record of 15 crashes in the first half of 2022, involving 113 people, in which 26 were injured, and six died.

Road Safety Officiers
June 17, 2022

Ilorin man remanded for allegedly stabbing two persons to death

Police prosecutor said that the man stabbed the victims for separating him from fighting his friend over a certain sum of money.

Ilorin Magistrate court
June 7, 2022

Nearly half of Somalia’s population risk starvation, death, warns UN food body

7.1 million people, equivalent to 45 per cent of the country’s population, are struggling to find food for their families.

Somali refugees
April 18, 2022

Man stabs farmer to death in Jigawa over firewood tango

The deceased had reportedly challenged 25-year-old Saminu Muntari for trespassing into his farm to fetch firewood.

Heap of firewood used to illustrate the story
April 14, 2022

Man arrested for smashing baby to death; begs for forgiveness

Police said that the suspect was alleged to be drunk on the day he committed the crime and tried to set himself ablaze.

SP Benjamin Hundeyin
May 19, 2021

Abuja: Yoruba chief demands probe of victim’s death in police custody

The police officers in charge of the case said Mr Shittu fell ill and they rushed him to the hospital where he eventually died.

FCT Commissioner of Police (CP), Bala Ciroma