Category: Crime
Benin Republic man charmed, trafficked Enugu teenager to Osun
The Osun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, on Monday, said it has handed over to the police, a teenager, Pamela Ibe, allegedly...
Why Igboho’s detention was extended, by lawyer
There were more facts on why the detention period of Yoruba Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo (popularly known as Sunday Igboho) was extended by six months....
Osun NSCDC hands over rescued 14-year-old girl to police
Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Osun State Command, has handed to the police, a 14-year-old girl, Pamela Ibe, who was allegedly...
Hanifa Abubakar Murder: Alleged Killer Of 5-year-old Kano Girl Begs For Lawyer To Represent Him
Abdulmalik Tanko, the main suspect in the kidnap and murder case of five-year-old Hanifa Abubakar has begged a Kano court on Monday to provide a lawyer to...
Buhari’s Minister, Lai Mohammed Sues Nigerian Newspaper, Demands ₦100 Billion In Damages
The Nigerian Minister for Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has instituted a suit before an FCT High Court in Abuja against an online media platform...
Sofiat: Police begin search for Facebook user who posted money ritual video
The Ogun State Police Command says its operatives are working to hunt and arrest the social media user who posted a get-rich-quick video on Facebook from...
Woman brutalizes seven-year-old boy for stealing meat
Ondo State Police Command detectives have arrested a middle-aged woman in Akure, the state capital, for allegedly inflicting deep cuts on a seven-year-old...
Church holds prayer rally in Onitsha to protest ritual killings
The Grace of God Mission International, a pentecostal church in Onitsha, Anambra State, on Sunday held a prayer rally around the city to protest the spate...
BREAKING: Falana Asks Police Inspector-General To Move Trial Of Adedoyin, Other Suspected Killers Of Murdered OAU Postgraduate Student, Adegoke, To Osun
Femi Falana (SAN), the lawyer representing the family of the slain master’s student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Timothy Adegoke, has demanded...
BREAKING: Bandits kidnap Catholic priest, kill cook in Kaduna
A Catholic parish located in Chawai, in the Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State has been attacked by suspected bandits on Sunday night, kidnapping...
Southern Kaduna killings: You have failed – HURIWA to Osinbajo
Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has told Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo that his 2019 initiative to bring to an end the...
Over 30 bandits attack Police Command, one killed
Over 30 suspected bandits, in the late hours of Sunday, attacked Okene Area Command of the Nigeria Police Force in Kogi State. Nationnewslead learnt that...
Defend Yourselves, Over 500 Northerners Killed Within A Month In Four States— Northern Groups Charge Residents
The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has lamented the increase in the spate of killings across Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina and Niger states. ...
How American Man Shot Dead 4 Family Members, Including 4-Year-Old Child, Injured 3 Others In Killing Spree
A Texas man shot and killed four of his family members – his parents, his son and his ex-girlfriend’s 4-year-old child – and wounded three others...
Court Fixes Date To Hear Suit Challenging Buhari’s Minister, Police For Banning #EndSARS Protest In Abuja
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has fixed March 3, 2022, for the hearing of a suit filed by the President of One Love Foundation, Chief...
‘White American prostitute’ jailed 12 months for N57.8m fraud in Kwara
Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Friday, sentenced a 20-year-old man, Fawas Oyelowo, to 12 months’...
Panic in Lagos community as hoodlums sell hard drugs, rob people at bus stops
Some residents of Agric community in Ojo Local Government, Lagos State, are bemoaning the increase in armed robbery attacks at their major bus stops. The...
Police officer’s murder trial begins over teenager’s death
The high-profile trial of an Australian constable accused of murdering an Aboriginal teenager began in Darwin on Monday, with prosecutors hoping to secure...
SHOCKER! Kidnapped Bethel student refuses to return, says he’s comfortable with bandits
The remaining kidnapped Bethel Baptist High School student who was held in the kidnappers den, has allegedly refused to return to his family and expressed...
Police arrest man for allegedly beating his girlfriend to death
A man identified as Ikenna Asiegbu, has allegedly killed his girlfriend, a 22-year-old Chidimma Christophe, in Mgbakwu, Awka North Local Government Area of...
