THIS WEEK

 In Lagos, robbery suspects said they were caught because their charms failed them.

A 35-year-old man committed suicide in Ondo State because he had become impotent.

In Lagos, armed robbers snatched a bag from a 60-year-old woman. The bag contained placenta, and cash meant for pepper soup ingredients for her daughter, who just put to bed.

Five construction workers raped a 14-year-old girl in Nasarawa State.

3,366 Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs, stolen in Ebonyi State.

Former Adamawa State Governor, Admiral Murtala Nyako, and his son declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

In Lagos State, 20-year-old woman arraigned before an lkeja Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing wedding rings

A pastor divorced his wife because she got pregnant for an Okada man.

THE BIG ONE: No fewer than 11 cows were killed early Thursday by a luxury bus on Akure-Owo Expressway in Ondo State. Immediately the news filtered to Akure metropolis, miscreants mobilized themselves and removed the cows before dawn.

They hijacked buses and other vehicles plying the road to convey the dead cows to hidden places where they quartered and shared the meat.The miscreants, some with knives and cutlasses, also argued over where it would be safer to take the dead cows for quartering.

Fight broke out among the miscreants over how many people should share each dead cow and who should take what part of its body.

Eyewitnesses said the bus, marked Anambra KPP 158XA, was heading to Lagos from Abuja when the accident occurred at Sebi Petrol Station in Akure, along the expressway. The Fulani herdsmen were said to have fled into the bush immediately the crash occurred for fear of being lynched.

It was also learned that the driver and the passengers in the luxury bus fled the scene, afraid that the Fulani herdsmen may mobilize to attack them.

The driver of the bus, on sighting the cows crossing the road, thought it was an armed robbery attack. He was said to have tried to avoid the cows, but they were too many. He eventually rammed into some of them, killing 11 instantly.

Photojournalists, who visited the scene of the accident, were attacked and prevented from carrying out their duties.

One of the passengers of the bus, Rosemary Nwachukwu, said the accident occurred at about 4am yesterday, adding that many of the passengers were sleeping at the time.