The police in Lagos state has arrested and paraded two suspected killers of a former Ogun State Permanent Secretary, Femi Egbeoluwa, and his wife, Funmi, who were murdered in their Ikeja residence on March 19, 2023. Parading the suspects before newsmen on Thursday, May 25, the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said the suspects were the slain couple’s former driver, Wale Adeyemo, and his accomplice, Kingsley Chibueze. He said Adeyemo resigned as the couple’s driver …
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Police in South Africa has declared a man wanted for the murder of his girlfriend and her 11-year-old daughter. Police spokesperson, Colonel Dimakatso Sello, in a statement on Tuesday May 10, said the 31-year-old man identified Kenneth “Majozi” Debeila, is on the run after he allegedly murdered Itumeleng Beverly Makhura and Tshepang on March 8, 2022 at Nellmapius, Gauteng. “According to information, the victims were choked to death and the child was raped. The circumstances surrounding the incident are being investigated,” Sello …
A father and mother may face murder charges after their disabled daughter’s body was found “melted” into their living room couch and covered in her own waste. Lacey Ellen Fletcher, who is disabled, likely suffered “at least a decade of medical neglect,” according to reports. Her body was found partially naked, sitting upright on a couch “covered in feces from head to toe” and “had insects all over her body” in her home in Slaughter, Louisiana, in January, …
Burkina Faso’s former president, Blaise Compaore has been sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a military tribunal ruled on Wednesday, April 6. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou at the age of 37, four years after he took power during the 1987 coup d’état that brought Compaoré to power. Thomas Sankara Compaore was charged in absentia …
The Nigeria Police Force has withdrawn a case against the owner of Hotels and Resorts, Ile-Ife, Rahmon Adedoyin, and six others charged with the murder of Timothy Adegoke, a Masters degree student of the Obafemi Awolowo University who died at the hotel on November 6, 2021. The deceased resided in Abuja but traveled to Ile Ife for his examination and lodged at the hotel where he allegedly died and then subsequently buried by the hotel management in a shallow grave without the …
A teenager who stabbed an 18-year-old girl 25 times and set her alight after realising that she was still alive, has pleaded guilty to charges of rape and murder in the North West High Court, South Africa on Friday October 8. Karabo Bahurutshe, 19, gave spine-chilling testimony and told the court that he killed his girlfriend, Gomolemo Legae from Seweding village because he did not want to go to jail after she threatened to open a case of rape against …