Police won’t name killers of One Million Boys leader

The remains of the leader of the dreaded One Million Boys gang, Biola (aka Ebila), were buried in Ibadan on Monday even as police refused to reveal his killers.

Ebila was shot dead on Sunday in the capital city. Some men believed to be members of his gang took his body to Idi Aro police station in a tricycle. Two of them were arrested by police.

While sources said he was shot dead by security agents while trying to collect ransom from relatives of a man he kidnapped, police said they were yet to get details of who killed him and in what circumstances. The operation of the security agents were said to be unofficial.

Kidnappers To Get Life Imprisonment in Nigeria

The Senate on Tuesday raised the punishment for an offence of kidnapping from 10 years to life imprisonment.

The Upper Chamber also deleted the statute of limitation on defilement as well as removed gender restrictions on the offences of rape.

These resolutions of the Senate followed the third reading and passage of “A bill for an Act to amend the Criminal Code Act CAP. C.38, Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 2004.”

Nelson Mandela's daughter Zindzi dies at 59

Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela and anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died at the age of 59.

She died in a Johannesburg hospital in the early hours of Monday morning, public broadcaster SABC said.

She was an activist in her own right and was serving as ambassador to Denmark at the time of her death.

The cause of her death was not immediately revealed.

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