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Police Reacts To Video Of Its Men Beating Man With Gun

January 5, 2020 2:12 pm

The Police Command in Enugu State has commenced investigation into an alleged misconduct by four policemen which was shown in a video clip in Enugu metropolis.

A video showing four policeman beating a young man with gun had on Saturday emerged online.

In the video, the policemen were seen chasing, assaulting the young man identified as Justice Obasi for refusing to unlock his phone.

It was alleged that the policemen accused Obasi of being a yahoo boy.

Reacting, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Ebere Amaraizu, in a statement

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Court Orders Army To Pay ₦50m For Beating Man To Death

December 18, 2019 12:23 pm

The Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, has awarded ₦60m as damages against the Nigerian Army for the murder of one Otunba Ajayi Oladele.

The Court presided over by Hon. Justice Emeka Nwite, delivered its judgement in a case with Suit No.HHC/WR/CS/93/2017.

The case is between Mrs. Esther Oladele&Ors. V. The Nigerian Army & Ors.

The Plaintiffs, who are the widow and the infant children of late Otunba Ajayi were represented pro bono by Kunle Edun Esq, National Public Relations Officer of the Nigerian Bar Association.

The Plaintiffs’ case was that Officers of the Nigerian Army including Lt. …

Man Drags Wife To Police For Beating 2 Children To Death

November 17, 2019 9:22 am

Mr Christian Ezike from Awo Idemili in Orsu local government area of Imo State has reported his wife, Ukamaka to the police for beating to death their two children, Chiwendu and Chinecherem, 2 years and 2 months old respectively.

According to the State Police Public Relation Officer, Orlando Ikeokwu who disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri explained that Ezike who had gone out for his normal business on Friday came back to see three of his children critically ill and bruised at the hospital.

On enquiry, he was told that his precious wife had beaten the three of them up.…

Beating Breast Cancer; Nigerian Women Share Experiences

October 13, 2019 4:08 am

As today marks the No Bra Day in commemoration of breast cancer awareness, three amazing Nigerian women have shared with us their fight with breast cancer.

Mrs. Kehinde Gbelee, Mrs. Ebunola Anozie and Ms. Della Ogunleye are the three most unlikely women to sit in the same room. Mrs. Kehinde is a bespectacled academic, cool, collected and cerebral she self corrects like an iPhone as she speaks, her length sentences peppered with “rather than”s and “perhaps.”

Mrs. Anozie is classically beautiful and eerily quiet, her eyes sweeping along the room like an analyst saving everything and saying nothing, her hard-won …

Court grants Iwu ₦1billion bail, still in prison custody

Man faces jail sentence for beating wife to death over sex

May 10, 2019 10:16 am

An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State on Friday remanded 31-year-old Godspower Johnson accused of beating his wife to death during a fight over sex.

Chief Magistrate O.O. Olatunji, ordered that Godspower should be kept at the Ikoyi Prison, Lagos, for the next 30 days pending advice from the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on the case.

Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp. Oladele Adebayo, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on March 21, at 5:30p.m., at No. 28, Adekoye St., Igbo-Elerin, Ishashi.

He alleged …