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  A mother has been accused of stabbing her newborn son to death with a pair of nail scissors before throwing the body into a trash can.   Mother-of-three Anastasia Skorychenko has been sentenced to two years in jail for allegedly stabbing her newborn 22 times, just moments after delivering him on her balcony.   The 30-year-old confessed to the crime during the sentencing in a court in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, last week.   Skorychenko explained the motive for the crime by saying "the baby was unwanted" and "she could not afford it", according to reports.   Anastasia Skorychenko and one of her older children    Skorychenko, who kept her third pregnancy secret, went into labour at home.   She began having contractions at night when her two daughters, aged 7 and 4, and their grandmother were sleeping.   Not wanting to wake them up, Skorychenko reportedly went to the balcony where she bent over a plastic basin and gave birth to a healthy ...

  A woman holding her daughter in her arms jumped off the roof of a building on Sunday afternoon, January 10, killing both of them, police have announced. Both the 39-year-old mother, Oksana Patchin, of Brooklyn, and her 5-year-old daughter, Olivia, were taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, but could not be saved.       The mother leaped off the 13-story building on W. 53rd St. near 11th Ave. in Hell’s Kitchen about 1:30 p.m., on Sunday according to police. She did not leave a suicide note, NYPD sources said.

  The police has said it doesn't know why a member of the National Youth Service Corps reportedly killed her lover in Akwa Ibom. Princess Odume   The police in Akwa Ibom has reacted to the killing of a young man by his alleged female lover.   The Akwa Ibom State Police Public Relations Officer, Odiko Ogbeche-Macdon while speaking on the matter, said that an investigation has commenced into murder.   He identified the suspect as Princess Odume, a member of the National Youth Service Corps in the state.   Odume was arrested on Monday after she allegedly hacked her male friend to death with a machete.   Ogbeche-Macdon, who confirmed the incident to SaharaReporters, said the culprit had been arrested and that the police had begun investigating the issue.   He said,  "The police are investigating. The police have her in custody, she committed the act, but as I speak, an investigation is ongoing as to how and why she did it."   The young woman, who...

  A young man has opened up on the brutal murder of his parents and two brothers, insisting that they deserve it. Warunge murdered his family members   A young man who brutally murdered his parents and two brothers has finally confessed.   The tragic incident happened in Karura area, Kiambu county, Kenya.  The 22-year-old university IT student identified as Lawrence Simon Warunge, was arrested on Friday, January 8, as a prime suspect into the incident after a three-day manhunt.   Police said they arrested the son identified as Lawrence after he went missing since Tuesday when his parents, two brothers and a worker were brutally murdered at their home in Kiambaa Constituency.   After he was arrested, he later confessed to the incident and led police to a residence in Mai Mahiu area on Saturday where they recovered the murder weapon, a kitchen knife, clothes, shoes and a piece of paper.   He had thrown the exhibits to a pit latrine. Police dug the wall o...

  Fleeing armed robbers have shot and killed a police officer attached to the Anti-Cultism Unit of the Edo State Police Command, Inspector Mohammed Hameed.    The incident occurred on along Lagos Street in Benin City at about 6.30 pm on Thursday, January 7.    It was gathered that a patrol team had received a distress call that some suspected armed robbers snatched a car around the Ring Road.   The team responded and gave the hoodlums a hot chase towards Lagos Street, a short distance from the city center.   According to a police source, the robbers allegedly opened fire on the patrol van and Inspector Hameed was hit by one of their bullets. The deceased who led the patrol team was said to have died on the spot.   "The policemen on patrol got a distress call that some suspected armed robbers snatched a car around the Kings Square in Benin City and headed towards Lagos Street. The police responded swiftly and pursued the hoodlums tow...

  Nigerians eager to register for the national identification number have been alerted of a new trend by scammers. NIN   Nigerians interested in registering for the national identification number have been alerted on the new tactics scammers are now using to dupe people.    The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has warned Nigerians to stay away from a fake app that claims to help link the National Identity Number (NIN) to SIM cards.   NIMC, in a Twitter post on Monday, dissociated itself from the app.   The agency claims the app is run by fraudsters who use it to harvest NIN and Bank Verification Number (BVN).   “The app was not created by NIMC or the Federal Government of Nigeria. It is run by fraudsters who are currently harvesting people’s NINs and BVNs by default,”  NIMC said.   The Commission further advised people to protect their data and stop disclosing personal information to unauthorised persons or platforms.   Rec...

  A corps member serving in Akwa Ibom has reportedly been arrested for allegedly hacking a young man to death with a machete.   Facebook user, Godwin George, who narrated the said event on his page, said he saw a large crowd attacking a lady on Sunday morning, January 10, around 9.30am at Abak road while she was being stripped naked.      According to Mr.George, he was told that the lady identified as Odume Princess Paschaline, was apprehended with bloodstains all over her while trying to jump out from a fence at the house where she had gone to hookup with the victim.      Following an interrogation over the bloodstains, the University Of Nigeria Nsukka graduate was reportedly beaten to a pulp after they discovered the crime she allegedly committed before she was taken to the Police Headquarters in Akwa Ibom.    The Facebook user also gathered that the lady allegedly used a matchet to attack the young man, killing him instantly afte...

  According to a community source, who preferred anonymity, the boy was found dead at a compound in the neighborhood where he was sent to buy sachet water. File photo In what will come across as a really shocking development, a five year -old boy who went missing in Imo state has been found dead inside a parked car. He was found dead in a car which was in a compound at Ishiuzor, Egbu Community, in Owerri North council area of Imo State, The Nation reports. According to a community source, who preferred anonymity, the boy was found dead at a compound in the neighborhood where he was sent to buy sachet water. The source said,  “the five year – old boy was sent to buy pure water at a particular compound in the neighborhood. The boy never came back. A search party was launched for the boy and he was never found till after five days. “His corpse was eventually found on the fifth day at the same compound where he was sent to buy pure water. The development was strange and it surpris...

  Two other officers were said to have sustained bullet wounds during the attack which occurred on Friday night. File photo As many as three Nigerian police officers have been confirmed dead after an attack by gunmen. They died after the attack by gunmen on Onueke police station in Ezza south local government area of Ebonyi state. Two other officers were said to have sustained bullet wounds during the attack which occurred on Friday night. The deceased were identified as two inspectors and sergeant. The attackers also reportedly carted away two AK 47 rifles from the police station. Loveth Odah, police spokesperson of the state, who confirmed the incident, said the corpses of the slain officers had been deposited in a mortuary, while the two persons who sustained injuries are receiving treatment. She said the command has launched a manhunt for the gunmen and urged anyone with useful information that could lead to the arrest of the hoodlums to reach out to the command. “Yes, three po...

  A two-year-old boy who was allegedly being maltreated and starved by his father and step mum has been rescued in Delta.   The child's plight was brought to social media by a Facebook user, Kwin Oge. She shared photos of the child on her page with the caption; ''Mr kwin Oge wall This is Zino. A 2 year old child whom the biological mother dropped with his biological father and step mother at No 113 Okumagba Avenue, Ojabugbe junction off Deco Road, Warri, Delta State. Since then the father and step mother has been giving this child all sorts of maltreatment and starvation. Please I call on the Delta state government and all human right activists to come to the aid of this child as the father and step mother has refused neighbours from feeding the boy even when they have refused to give him food. They lock him up in dark room and beat him up when he receives help from neighbours. Neighbours now are afraid to help so they don’t end up killing him. Please come to the aid of t...

  Speaking in Hausa, Wada, the chief culprit, disclosed that he and Abdulrauf had gone to Kwata, the area the latter’s elder brother, who is married, lives. Two young men suspected to be ritualists have been arrested for allegedly killing and removing the vagina of a girl in Bauchi State. Following their arrest, they narrated their roles in the dastardly act. The duo confessed that they committed the heinous act for N500,000. The suspects, Abdulkadir Wada (19) and Adamu Abdulrauf (20), in an audio clip obtained by PRNigeria, said they were asked to bring the sexual organ of a female by a native doctor. The boys from Jama’are Local Government were nabbed by men of the Bauchi State Police Command. Speaking in Hausa, Wada, the chief culprit, disclosed that he and Abdulrauf had gone to Kwata, the area the latter’s elder brother, who is married, lives. He recalled that they waylaid a little girl, dragged her into an uncompleted building and strangled her to death. “Abdulrauf then remove...

  Big Sipiliano turned up to Melisa Mazhindu’s funeral a little after 1am on January 2 with an accomplice, who later prevented family members from intervening in the ghoulish assault. Big Sipiliano In what will come across as a really unbelievable development, a woman’s funeral has recently turned into a bizarre sex show. The funeral turned bizarre after a man leaped on top of the dead body and attempted to have sex with it. Big Sipiliano, a 49-year-old man from Epworth in Zimbabwe, turned up to Melisa Mazhindu’s funeral a little after 1am on January 2 with an accomplice, who later prevented family members from intervening in the ghoulish assault. Both of them were reportedly drunk. Sipiliano entered the bedroom where the body of Melisa Mazhindu had been laid out and – while his companion blocked the doorway – jumped onto Melisa's corpse and started thrusting up and down in front of the deceased woman's shocked family. Sipiliano, known locally as “Bigman” reportedly told Melisa...

  The suspect was arrested by the state’s police command and confessed upon interrogation. Adamu Ra’uf Adamu Ra’uf, a 20-year-old man who is one of the suspects who allegedly took part in the cutting of the private parts of a six-year old girl for suspected ritual purposes in Bauchi State has confessed. He said that he was charmed by his friend who is now at large to take part in the dastardly act. The incident was said to have occurred at about 7.20 pm on December 30, 2020. The suspect, Adamu Ra’uf (20), an indigene of Gandu Jama’are Local Government Area, who was arrested by the state’s police command, confessed upon interrogation that he conspired with one Abdulkadir Haladu of Chikamidari in the area to perpetrate the crime. Narrating his role in the incident to newsmen at the headquarters of the Bauchi State Police Command yesterday, Rauf said:  ”My friend Haladu and I took the victim to an uncompleted building where her private parts were mutilated on the instruction of a...

  Lorlumun had inherited Gana’s gang after the latter’s death and had carried on as the leader until soldiers arrested him in Katsina Ala, the home town of the late dreaded militia leader, last month. It will be recalled that Nigeria came close to a standstill when the very notorious robbery kingpin and militia leader in Benue State, Terwaze Akwaza a.k.a. Gana met his untimely death on Tuesday, September 8, 2020, having been shot dead by soldiers in controversial circumstances. But the man believed to be the brains behind the acclaimed supernatural powers of the late Gana, Mr Ugbe Lorlumun, is alive. Lorlumun had inherited Gana’s gang after the latter’s death and had carried on as the leader until soldiers arrested him in Katsina Ala, the home town of the late dreaded militia leader, last month. Reputed as the chief priest to the late Gana, Lorlumun said he owned a shrine from where he prepared charms with human parts and also owned a human blood boiling pot from which he was able ...

  She tells of how police officers stormed her residence, accused her and her children of armed robbery and kidnapping and eventually shot her son dead Evangelist Victoria Agori, a 49-year-old Nigerian Evangelist has talked about how her son was killed. Agori tells DENNIS NAKU about her ordeal in the hands of men of the Inspector-General of Police Monitoring Unit, who in 2019 stormed her residence on Nkpolu, East-West Road, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, accused her and her children of armed robbery and kidnapping and eventually shot her son dead What do you do and how old are you? I am Evangelist Victoria Agori from Bayelsa State. I am an evangelist and a businesswoman. I am 49 years old. You submitted a petition against the police before the  #EndSARS  panel. What is it about? On May 11, 2019, there was a minor quarrel in the house concerning some fish I bought from Bayelsa. So, my daughter, Felicia Agori, who is going out with one of the men of the I...