Man allegedly spends 5yrs in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, loses a leg in the process

One Ibrahim Abubakar, a shop owner along Zoo Road in Kano metropolis, committed suicide on Thursday evening. According to Vanguard News, his body was discovered hanging from a rope in his shop. His son, Abdussalam Ibrahim, told newsmen that his father was battling with psychological trauma further worsened by...
A 19-year-old Indonesian man, collapsed and begged for mercy as he was flogged nearly 150 times on Thursday, November 26, for raping a child in a province where public whipping is a common punishment for violating Islamic law. According to the Daily Mail, the suspect grimaced and cried out...
There was rising tension on Wednesday, in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, over the indiscriminate shooting of three women, identified as Alice Azaghene, Mrs Ebinipiri Onojamadu, and Mudufuro Blessing by a team of policemen on patrol duty along the popular Tombia market area of the state, causing serious injuries...