Tag: MURDER

Kano: Police confirm 7 family members killed in home attack

Aminu Imam
Kano family members

The Kano State Police Command has confirmed that seven members of a family – a 35-year-old housewife and her six children – were killed in a brutal attack on their residence in ÆŠorayi Charanchi (also known as Charanchi) Quarters of Kano metropolis yesterday. Initial reports had suggested that four people were killed during the incident, with claims that an infant was thrown into a well. However, Police authorities later clarified that the death toll was higher, confirming that all six children of the woman were among the victims. The state…

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Jigawa: Son stabs mother to death

Aminu Imam

One Samuel Shegun has been apprehended for allegedly killing his biological mother, the Jigawa State Police Command have said. The lifeless body of the 47-year-old woman, Esther Adekanla, popularly known as Hadiza Nakowa, was discovered in her house at Dutse, the State capital. The State Commissioner of Police, CP. AT Abdullahi made the disclosure while parading the 32-year-old suspect at the Command’s headquarters. He said the suspect was arrested in connection with the case of the brutal killing of his mother, after an investigation by detectives from State Criminal Investigation…

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House of Reps urges IGP on thorough investigation of alleged killing of Ummita by Chinese boyfriend

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
late Ummulkulthum Buhari and estranged lover Geng Guaroung

The House of Representatives has urged the Inspector General of Police (I-G) to direct a thorough investigation into alleged killing of Miss Ummulkulthum Buhari, by a Chinese national, Mr Geng Quanrong in Kano. The resolution was sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion by Rep. Kabiru Rurum (APC-Kano state) at the plenary on Wednesday. Moving the motion, Rurum said that the suspected murder of the young lady occurred last week, in her house in Janbulo, Dorayi Babba in Gwale Local Government area of Kano State. The lawmaker said that…

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Ummitta Murder: Kano Court remands Chinese lover in Correctional Custody

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir
Gereng and Ummitta.

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kano, on Wednesday, ordered that a 47-year-old Chinese National, Geng Quanrong, be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged murder of his Nigerian girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani, 22. The police charged Geng, who lives in Nassarawa GRA Quarters Kano, with culpable homicide. Chief Magistrate, Hanif Sanusi-Chiroma, who did take the plea of Geng, ordered that he should be remanded in Kurmawa Correctional Centre, pending legal advice. Sanusi-Chiroma adjourned the matter until Oct.13, for further mention. Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Khalifa Auwal-Hashim, said that Geng committed the offence on…

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Chinese national stabs Nigerian corps-member girlfriend to death in Kano

Aminu Imam

The Kano State Police Command has confirmed the alleged murder of one Miss Ummu Kulthum Sani, of Janbulo quarters, in Gwale local government area of the State, by a Chinese national, Gheng Chu, who is based in the State, on Friday. The Police Public Relations Officers, SP Abdullahi Haruna, confirmed the murder at a press conference yesterday in Kano. According to him, the Command received a distress call on Friday evening at around 10pm, adding that the Commissioner of Police, Lawal Abubakar, dispatched a team to the scene. He said,…

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Army dismisses soldiers implicated over killing of Islamic cleric

Aminu Imam

The Nigerian Army yesterday dismissed the two soldiers – John Gabriel and Gideon Adamu – implicated in the killing of popular Yobe Islamic cleric, Goni Aisami. The dismissal of the soldiers was announced by the Acting General Commanding Officer (GOC) 241 RECCE Battalion, Lt-Colonel, I O Sabo, at an event held at the 241 RECCE Battalion Nguru, where the soldiers were serving. Recall that the cleric had given him a lift from a military checkpoint where he was stationed. Gabriel confessed to killing Aisami on August 19, while trying to…

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Kano: Court sentences school girl, Hanifa’s killers to death by hanging

Aminu Imam

A Kano State High Court has sentenced AbdulMalik Muhammad Tanko, 38, to death by hanging for kidnapping and killing five-year-old school girl, Hanifa Abubakar. Tanko, the proprietor of Nobel Kids Academy and North-West Preparatory School, was the principal suspect in the murder of the pupil. He was convicted and sentenced alongside his accomplice, Hashim Isyaku, 38. Hanifa was a pupil at Tanko’s private school, located in the Kwanar-Dakata area of Kano metropolis. The presiding judge Justice Usman Na’abba, in a judgment on Thursday, said the court was convinced beyond reasonable…

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Alleged Super TV CEO murder trial: Court adjourns till May 23

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

A Lagos High Court in Tafawa Balewa Square, on Monday adjourned till May 23, trial of an undergraduate, Chidinma Ojukwu, charged with murdering Usifo Ataga, Chief Executive Officer of Super TV. Ojukwu is standing trial for alleged murder, stealing and forgery alongside her sister, Chioma Egbuchu and one Adedapo Quadri. It would be recall that at the last proceeding on May 12, the trial could not hold, due to change of counsel by the third defendant; Egbuchu. The new counsel, Ngozi Akandu, had asked that more eligible documents be served…

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Kaduna: Tailor kills neighbour over bucket of water

Aminu Imam

A 29-year-old Kaduna-based tailor, Gado Yahaya, has allegedly killed his neighbour during an argument over a bucket of water. According to a resident of Rigasa in Igabi local government area of the state, the tailor fought with one Liman Salisu, which led to the death of Salisu. “He is a resident of Rigasa in Kaduna State and was arraigned on charges of culpable homicide before a Kaduna Magistrate Court on Monday”, he said. The tailor appeared before the Kaduna Magistrate Court in the Rigasa area on Monday, looking pale and…

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Teenage boys slaughter girlfriend, burn her head for money ritual in Ogun

Aminu Imam

There was pandemonium in Oke Aregba area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, after some teenage boys were caught burning the head of a girl, said to be in a relationship with one of them, for money ritual. In the early hours of Saturday, one Segun Adewusi, who is the community security guard, had observed that some four boys were burning something suspected to be the human head in a local pot on the road. gathered that the security guard immediately alerted the police at Adatan station, who went to…

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