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In a tragic escalation of a common neighborhood disagreement, a 36-year-old realtor, Yinka Agboola, was killed after an argument over a parking space in the upscale Lekki area of Lagos. The altercation, which began with residents politely asking a driver to move his obstructing vehicle, ended with the suspect allegedly using his car as a weapon and fleeing the scene. The incident occurred on the evening of Monday, December 8, 2025, at the Royal Pine Estate on Orchid Road. According to multiple witness accounts shared on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), the conflict started when residents found a white Mercedes-Benz ML350 parked in the middle of the road, blocking traffic. The Fatal Escalation What followed was a rapid and violent sequence of events, pieced together from social media reports and family statements: 1.  A Polite Request Turns Hostile: Residents offered the driver an alternative parking spot. Instead of complying, the driver reportedly became ag...

In a brazen daytime attack, a four-man armed robbery gang targeted a driver on a major road in Ilorin, Kwara State, on Friday, making off with millions of naira and leaving a trail of gunfire and injuries. The incident occurred around 11:00 a.m. along Murtala Muhammed Way, directly opposite the Vanguard Newspaper office. Eyewitnesses reported that the masked assailants, arriving in an ash-colored Toyota Corolla, trailed the victim's grey Toyota Sienna (marked AA 693 GT) to the spot. Details of the Attack The robbers opened fire on the Sienna, deflating two of its left tires and forcing the driver to stop. Three masked men emerged from the Corolla while a fourth remained as the getaway driver. To terrorize bystanders, the gang fired several shots into the air, causing residents and passersby to flee for safety. However, stray bullets struck the Sienna driver in the arm and pierced the vehicle's front and rear windshields and body. The robbers then reporte...

Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the brutal murder of a Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) officer, Lasisi Funmilayo Oluwamayokun, and her 12-year-old daughter, Sewa, in a case police allege was a premeditated ritual killing motivated by financial divination. The Osun State Police Command's Anti-Kidnapping Squad apprehended Fajemirokun Victor, Daramola Gboyega (aka Abere’fa), and Sunday James. Two other suspects, Faturoti Kehinde (Ifagoriite) and Adumati Idowu, remain at large. The victims, who resided in Abeokuta, Ogun State, were reported missing on November 10. Investigation and Arrests Investigators determined that Victor, described as a close friend and former boyfriend of the officer, lured her and her daughter to Iwoye Ijesa under false pretenses. Intelligence revealed the officer had been in contact with the suspects after her disappearance. Daramola Gboyega (Abere’fa), identified as an Ifa priest, was the fi...

A UK judge has handed down lengthy prison sentences to two Afghan asylum seekers for the rape of a 15-year-old schoolgirl in a Warwickshire park, condemning the attackers for betraying genuine refugees and robbing their victim of her childhood. Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both 17, were sentenced at Warwick Crown Court on Tuesday for the assault, which occurred in a park in Leamington Spa on May 10, 2025. The court heard that the pair, who arrived in the United Kingdom months earlier after crossing the English Channel in small boats, attacked the teenager despite her desperate pleas for help from passersby. A Desperate Cry for Help, Ignored During the trial, footage recorded by the victim on her mobile phone was played in court. The video showed her being led away from her friends by the two defendants while she called out for assistance. The girl later described how people nearby failed to intervene despite her visible distress. CCTV evidence corroborated her...

HOPKINTON, Rhode Island — A Grammy-nominated musician known for his talent and cheerful spirit was struck and killed while walking his dogs on Saturday morning, with police revealing the driver involved has a staggering record of over 100 prior arrests. The victim, identified as Roderick "Rod" MacLeod, 70, was a celebrated bassist from Richmond, Rhode Island. He was walking his two dogs along the shoulder of Route 128 in Hopkinton around 7:21 a.m. when an SUV, driven by 41-year-old Shannon Godbout, veered off the road. The vehicle hit two telephone poles before striking MacLeod. He was rushed to Rhode Island Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. MacLeod was a pivotal member of the renowned jump-blues and swing band Roomful of Blues. His talent earned the group a Grammy nomination in the 1980s, and he was inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame in 2012. After his time with the band, he continued to perform with local groups, including ...

OWERRI, Imo State — A quiet community in Imo State has been plunged into horror and suspicion after a government raid on a local hotel and an attached private mortuary uncovered a scene straight from a nightmare: multiple decomposing and mutilated corpses stored in freezers, pointing to a potential underground network for kidnapping and organ harvesting. A joint operation by the Imo State Police Command, the State Ministry of Health, and local vigilantes sealed the facilities in the Umuowa community of Ngor-Okpala Local Government Area. The target was businessman Stanley Morocco Oparaugo, who owns both the hotel and the unregistered mortuary. Authorities acted on credible intelligence suggesting the premises were a hub for "suspicious activities," but what they found exceeded their gravest fears. A Chamber of Horrors: What Investigators Found Police and health officials described a scene of profound disregard for human dignity and medical ethics. The ...

A horrific act of violence has left a Benue State community in mourning and shock after a man was allegedly killed by his own son following a dispute over money. The incident occurred on Saturday, December 6, 2025, in the Nyamatsoo Mbagen community of Buruku Local Government Area. According to local reports, the victim, identified as Ankyambe Hembaor, was attacked by his son, Tordue, after a heated argument. The conflict reportedly began when Tordue demanded money from his father. When Ankyambe refused, his son allegedly grabbed a machete and attacked him in a fit of rage. Neighbors who heard the commotion rushed the severely injured man to Agbecha Hospital in Nyamatsoo, but he was pronounced dead while receiving treatment. Following the gruesome attack, the suspect, Tordue, fled the community. Security forces and police officers from Buruku have since been deployed to the area to search for him. The state's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has launch...

For over seven agonizing months, the family of 21-year-old Cadet Stephen Kubuma Gani has been trapped in a nightmare with no end in sight. Their son vanished from inside the walls of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna under baffling circumstances. Now, with pleas for official help seemingly ignored, they are breaking their silence, demanding to know if their child is alive and why one of Nigeria's most secure military institutions has left them without answers. The Disappearance and the Contradictions Cadet Stephen Kubuma Gani, a Naval cadet studying Geography, was last heard from on the afternoon of Sunday, April 27, 2025. He called his family from a roommate's phone to confirm his safe return to the Academy after the Easter break. The Official Account: The family's ordeal began two days later, on April 29, when they were informed by an NDA officer that Gani was missing. They were told he was present for a nighttime bed check, then stepped...

Delta State Police have arrested a 19-year-old housemaid, identified as Rosemary, for allegedly stealing foreign currencies and other personal items from the home of a State Commissioner. According to Police Spokesperson SP Bright Edafe, the suspect, who is from Plateau State, had worked for the commissioner and his wife for over a year. In a confession, Rosemary stated that the incident stemmed from a grievance last holiday season. She claimed the commissioner had instructed his wife to give her gifts to take home to her family, but the wife later became angry and sent her away empty-handed. Upon returning to work, Rosemary allegedly formulated a plan. When the couple traveled, she entered their bedroom and packed numerous items, including foreign currency and food. She reportedly enlisted the family driver to help move the items to a park, telling him her boss had asked her to ship the goods to someone outside the state. After traveling with the stolen items to her home s...

MINNA, Niger State — The decomposed body discovered in an uncompleted building in Minna has been identified as that of Mallam Awwal Yakubu, a local Qur’anic teacher and father of seven who was reported missing last week. The Niger State Police Command confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday. According to Police Public Relations Officer SP Wasiu Abiodun, authorities received a report around 10 a.m. on December 7, 2025, of a corpse found behind Talba Estate along Bida Road in the Kpakungu area. "Police operatives moved to the scene and found a decomposed body in an uncompleted building, which was later identified by relatives as Auwal Yakubu, 45, residing in the same area," the statement read. The police noted that the body appeared to have been dumped at the location. The deceased had been reported missing since December 4. Yakubu operated an Islamiyya school in the Barikin-Saleh area. Community leader Mallam Mahmud Dalhatu Iya told the *Daily ...

A 21-year-old Ukrainian student, the son of a deputy mayor, has been found burned to death in Vienna in a brutal murder that Austrian police believe was motivated by the extortion of a large sum of cryptocurrency. A brutal murder in Vienna has shocked Austria and Ukraine, as a young student was tortured and set on fire in what authorities allege was an extortion plot targeting his cryptocurrency holdings. The victim, Danilo Kuzmin, 21, was the son of Sergey Kuzmin, the deputy mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine. He had been living in Vienna since fleeing the Russian invasion. His charred remains were discovered last Wednesday in the back seat of his father's burned-out Mercedes, which had been abandoned under a bridge. An autopsy revealed that before being set alight, Kuzmin suffered severe blunt force trauma, including head injuries and broken teeth. He ultimately died from suffocation or heat shock shortly after the fire started. A melted petrol canister...

A Michigan doctor has been sentenced to a minimum of 35 years in prison after pleading no contest to 31 counts of sexual misconduct, including secretly recording his wife, children, female relatives, and patients in hospitals and a children's swimming school. A former Michigan doctor will spend decades behind bars after a judge sentenced him for a disturbing pattern of secret surveillance and sexual misconduct that targeted his own family and extended to his workplace. Oumair Aejaz, 41, was sentenced on Tuesday to between 35 and 60 years in prison after pleading no contest to 31 felony charges. The charges included first-degree criminal sexual conduct, child sexually abusive commercial activity, and using a computer to commit a crime. According to prosecutors, the investigation began in August 2024 after Aejaz's wife presented evidence that he had been secretly recording her, their two young children, and several female relatives in their hom...

Police in Maiduguri, Borno State, have arrested a 17-year-old boy accused of breaking into a neighbor's home, stabbing a woman to death, and stealing her phone and power bank. A 17-year-old boy identified as Amir has been arrested by police in Maiduguri, Borno State, for the alleged murder of his neighbor's wife during a violent robbery. The incident occurred late Tuesday night in the Shuwarin II area. According to local accounts, the suspect allegedly scaled the victim's fence after the family had gone to bed, hid inside the house, and attacked the woman with a knife, stabbing her in the chest and neck. Following the attack, the teenager is said to have fled with the victim's mobile phone and power bank. Neighbors discovered the crime and alerted authorities, leading to a swift police response and the suspect's arrest. The Borno State Police Command confirmed the arrest through its spokesperson, ASP Nahum Kenneth Daso, who stated that the su...