Metro
NURTW President, 21 Others Arrested Over Alleged Killing

The President, National Union of Road Transport Workers, Tajudeen Baruwa, and 21 others, including three national officers of the union are currently being detained by the police in Abuja.
Those arrested have been charged with alleged criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, public disturbance and conducts likely to cause breach of peace.
They were arrested and detained between Tuesday and Wednesday, and subsequently moved to the facility of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad popularly known as abattoir, located in Guzape, Abuja, PUNCH Metro learnt.
Confirming the development in an interview with The PUNCH on Thursday night, spokesperson for the FCT Police Command, Josephine Adeh, revealed that the suspects would be charged to court following conclusion of police investigation.
“The NURTW president was arrested alongside 21 others. They’re being charged with criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide, public disturbance, and conducts likely to cause breach of peace. They’ll be arraigned in court once investigation is concluded,” Adeh revealed.
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On Tuesday, at least one person was killed and several others injured in a clash involving the union.
The FCT Commissioner of Police, Haruna Garba, had earlier confirmed the arrest of 23 male suspects, and recovery of three rifles, following the chaos that engulfed the Garki area of the FCT on Tuesday during a violent clash between two factions of the NURTW on Sapele Crescent, off Ladoke Akintola Boulevard, Garki II, Abuja.
Speaking over the development in an exclusive interview with our correspondent on Tuesday night, CP Garba said, “Twenty three persons has so far been arrested, and the death toll is only one; a yet-to-be-identified male. And three rifles were also recovered from the suspects.”
Metro
I Provide Four Square Meals A Day For My Wife, Man Tells Court
A commercial mototrcyclist, Malam Isma’il Abubakar, has told a Shari’a Court sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, that he provides ‘four square meals’ for his wife every day.
Isma’il made this known while responding to his wife, Zainab Saleh’s allegations that he does not provide food for her.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), she also alleged that her husband does not respect her parents.
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She said she was done with their 10-year marriage and wanted divorce.
Isma’il, however, prayed the court to give him time to settle the dispute with his wife.
The judge, Malam Malam Anas Khalifa, asked Zainab to provide witnesses who can testify to her claims.
He ordered the couple to present their parents or guardians in court.
Metro
Court Dissolves Marriage, Orders Man To Pay N30,000 Per Month For Kids’ Food
An Area Court at Centre-igboro, Ilorin, Kwara State, has dissolved the nine-year-old marriage between a woman, Bilikis Abake and her husband, Kehinde Bintin, over claims of domestic violence.
Delivering judgment, the presiding judge, Mr Idris Etsu, held that the respondent, had sent a letter to the court through the bailiff, releasing his wife.
Etsu, consequently, dissolved the marriage between both parties, but ordered the woman to observe three months iddah (waiting) period, before she could remarry again.
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According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the court awarded custody of the two children of the marriage, who are eight-year-old and six-year-old, to their mother.
The court ordered the respondent to pay the sum of N30,000, as monthly maintenance fee.
He held that the father should be responsible for his children’s school fees, and should be allowed unrestricted access to his children, except at odd hours.
Metro
‘My Husband Kept Coffin Under Our Bed, Planned To Use Our Child For Ritual’
In a chilling case that shocked Matero Local Court, Zambia, 36-year-old woman from Chisamba has been granted divorce from her husband, whom she accused of attempting to sacrifice their two children.
Bertha Mumbi told the court that her husband, Abel Ngoma, 46, of Chibombo, allegedly plotted to kill their two daughters—aged 11 years and 7 years as part of ritual instructions he received from a witchdoctor in 2021.
According to Zambia Observer, testifying before the magistrate, Lewis Mumba Bertha said that Abel even made a small coffin in preparation for the supposed death of their firstborn and kept it in their bedroom for four consecutive nights after she refused to participate in the scheme.
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“By then, he had already made a small coffin in readiness for the death of my firstborn. He never told me about the coffin he made. We slept for four days with it under our bed,” she said.
Bertha said the plan was brought to light by the witchdoctor’s informant, who approached her to demand compensation for cancelling the agreement, since she had refused to consent to the sacrifice.
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