Category: Crime
BREAKING: Controversy surrounds Abba Kyari’s whereabouts after attack on Kuje prison
Controversy has surrounded the whereabouts of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, after bandits attacked Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja,...
Lagos fires ‘judge’ who ‘dissolved marriage, snatched complainant’s wife’
The Lagos State Government has fired a customary court member, Mr Ishola Razaki Adeyemi, who in 2015 allegedly dissolved a marriage and married the wife of...
BREAKING: DCP Abba Kyari, Dariye, Nyame ‘missing’ after attack on Kuje facility
Some high profile inmates at the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja may have escaped Tuesday night’s attacks on the facility by some gunmen. The attacks,...
Sofiat: Suspected ritual killers still in custody, not dead – Ogun Correctional Centre
Nigerian Correctional Service, Ogun State Command, has debunked rumour that one of the suspected killers of Sofiat Okeowo had...
Lagos sacks ‘judge’ who snatched litigant’s wife
Lagos State Government has sacked a customary court member, Ishola Razaki Adeyemi. In 2015, Adeyemi allegedly dissolved a marriage and...
Gov’s aide sponsored attack against us – Lawmakers
Lawmakers of the Bauchi State House of Assembly who were attacked by hoodlums on Monday have alleged that Governor Bala Mohammed’s Special Adviser on...
Court remand man for alleged rape of nine-year-old
A 20-year-old man, Auwalu Lado, has been remanded at a Katsina Correctional Centre over the alleged rape and escape from police custody. Lado would be at...
Osun court remands seven for defacing APC billboards
An Osogbo Chief Magistrate Court, on Tuesday, remanded seven suspected members of a cult group for defacing some campaign billboards belonging to the All...
US court fixes September 21 for sentencing cyber fraudster Hushpuppi
A United States Central District Court in California has on Tuesday fixed the sentencing of Nigerian fraudster Ramon Abass known as Hushpuppi to September...
Trial of two federal staff over alleged N1.3bn land scam shifted to Nov
Justice Babangida Hassan of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday shifted the criminal trial of a former President of...
Man docked for alleged intimidation, falsehood against High court judge
A Minna, Niger State-based land speculator, Ibrahim Tukura, has been remanded in correctional custody till July, 7 on the orders of a Chief...
Confusion as hoodlums ambush campaign convoy in Osogbo
There was confusion on Tuesday as the convoy of Bolanle Jimoh, the Caretaker Chairman of Osogbo South Local Council Development Authority at...
Appeal Court upholds lower court judgment on Abuja land dispute
The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Tuesday, upheld the judgment of Justice Peter Affen of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in respect of...
Court remands herbalist over alleged N800, 000 fraud
An Ilesa Magistrates’ Court in Osun, on Monday, remanded a 22-year-old man, Kehinde Ola, in Ilesa Correctional Centre over alleged N800,000 fraud. The...
We use ransom to buy cattle – Kidnap suspects arrested in Ekiti
Two suspected kidnappers arrested in Ekiti State have confessed to using shares of their ransom to purchase a herd of cattle. The...
2 men set ablaze for raping, dismembering girl
A mob Monday set two men ablaze in Ede-Oballa, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. The suspected ritualists were lynched for...
Police react as mob burn two ritualists alive for raping minor to death
The Enugu State Police Command has reacted to the report of two suspected ritualists who were burnt to death by an angry mob on Monday for...
Several injured as thugs attack PDP members during meeting
No fewer than ten people have been injured after suspected thugs invaded the venue of a meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youths...
12 persons killed as vigilante battles bandits
Twelve (12) persons have been killed in a clash between bandits and vigilante members in Zak community, Wase Local Government Area of...
Gunmen kill security man, set filling station ablaze in Ondo
Tension heightened on Monday in Igoba community in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State following the killing of a...
