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There are indications that the prime suspect in the gruesome murder of a couple, Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye, in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, has escaped from police custody. The police in the state have yet to confirm this development as an effort to get a reaction from the Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi proved abortive. The prime suspect simply identified as Lekan, it was gathered, escaped from police custody at Ibara Police Divisional Headquarters, after his arrest on Tuesday. It was alleged that the identity of Lekan, who was the driver to the late Mrs Fatinoye, until Friday, remained a top secret within the police hierarchy The suspect was said to have been driving Mrs Fatinoye for almost two years and was well known within the community of the Federal University of Agriculture (FUNAAB), where Fatinloye worked. Lekan was said to have been arrested following an earlier arrest of another suspect who was a house help to the Fatinoyes. According to a family sou

The murders of Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye, a few hours after the new year, have made me pensive and downcast since the news broke. That dastardly murder is one event of 2023 that throws me into spasms whenever my mind reflects on it. Unable to reconcile the gravity of this evil with the aesthetic beauty of life as God’s creation, this murder made me dust up my handbooks on the philosophy of evil and wickedness. I wanted a clue as to why this horror happened and why our world’s most fitting alias is wickedness and cruelty. The Fatinoyes were killed in their home located in Ibara Government Reservation Area, Abeokuta, Ogun State, a few hours after the celebration of the birth of a new year. According to newspaper reports, the duo, who worked at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta respectively, had just returned from the yearly church ritual of Crossover Service when their assailants struck. Not only did the killers snuff life out of them

A Nigerian has been jailed for visiting a 13-year- old girl in United Kingdom with condoms and lollipops. The Nigerian, 37-year-old Osacpolor Jimoh who was caught at Leeds train station travelling from Scotland to meet the minor at the train station. According to Yorkshire Evening Post, Jimoh was sentenced to three years and nine months in jail. He had booked a hotel following a five and half months of communication and planned to lure the minor into his bed. He added the minor as a Facebook friend in May, 2022, and lied he was 19 years old while the minor claimed she was 13. He asked the girl who he thought was a minor whether she had a boyfriend. While chating on Facebook, he told her she was beautiful and wanted a secret relationship before they started communicating on WhatsApp. He immediately asked her about her sexual experience and then sent her pornographic videos of himself. He asked the minor to call him daddy and requested for explicts pictures of the girl telling her to kee

Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has declared that his administration will set up the Rural Electrification Board to address power supply  in Ibarapa zone of the state.  The governor, while addressing thousands of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Saturday, at the state campaign flag-off held at Igboora, said the reconstruction of Eruwa to Ibadan road will begin in two weeks. A statement by the Media Committee of the Governor Seyi Makinde Re-election Campaign Council, said the governor promised  that he would make sure that Ibarapa is fully carried along on the Rural Electrification  Board. He said: “I want those who are in the opposition party to come forward so that I can officially receive them here.  "Few weeks back, I promised that we would flag-off the 2023 campaign here in Ibarapa zone and that is what we are doing here today. The state flag-off is what is happening here, but by the time we begin the LG to LG campaign, I will come back to tell you what Ibarapaland will b

A woman simply identified as Ogochukwu Anene has been allegedly beaten to death by her husband following arguments over a loaf of bread. Ogochukwu, from Umuokpu village in Awka, Anambra State, was said to have been married to one Mr Ndubisi Wilson Uwadiegwu from Enugu State. Their union, we gathered, was blessed with four sons and a daughter. The union, however, was allegedly plagued by domestic violence. On the fateful day Ogochukwu died, she reportedly asked her husband to buy bread for the family and he said he had no money. She then used her money to buy bread for the family. Subsequently, Ndubuisi allegedly went into the kitchen and finished the whole bread. When she confronted him for finishing the bread without keeping any for their children, he allegedly beat her up with his fists and a mirror. She collapsed during the beating and died a few hours later. Following her death, the husband has remained free and is allegedly planning to bury her without informing her people properl