Category: Crime
Husband sets wife ablaze in Ondo
An Akure High Court in Ondo State has heard how a 50-year-old man, Daniyan Ojo locked up his wife, Dorcas in her room while asleep and allegedly set the...
Jealous lover kills girlfriend after argument over flirting with customer
A 50-year-old woman, Ajoke Esomojumi, who sold sachet alcohol on Ikorodu Road, Lagos, has been allegedly stabbed to death by her lover, one Victor Dadeowo,...
Zamfara Deputy Governor faces impeachment
The Zamfara House of Assembly has commenced impeachment process against the Deputy Governor of the state, Alhaji Mahadi Aliyu. This is contained in a...
Traffic officer beats driver to death
The Police Command in Kaduna State has ordered the arrest of a Kaduna State Traffic Law Enforcement Agency (KASTLEA) marshal who beats a driver to death....
Judge suspended for jailing man who ‘exchanged words with his mother’
An Area Court Judge in Adamawa State has been removed for incompetence. Chief Judge of the state, Hon. Justice Nathan Musa, removed the Presiding...
How DCP Abba Kyari-led Squad Forced Me Into Confession, Killed Six People In My Presence – Kidnap Suspect, Evans
Suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, on Friday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court that his eyes saw hell in the hands of...
Gunmen kill father, kidnap daughter in Abuja
Armed men have killed a father, while they abducted a 12-year-old girl in Chukuku in the Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory. The armed men...
I was into haulage business, not kidnapping, Evans tells court
Alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, said on Friday that he was innocent of the charges slammed against him before the Lagos...
Nigerian Military Bombs Boko Haram, ISWAP Camps Discovered In Borno’s Lake Chad Region
The Nigerian military has killed many fighters of the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly...
N57.8m Fraud: Boy sent to prison after posing as ‘American prostitute’
Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Friday convicted 20-year-old Oyelowo Mayowa Fawas. The native of Atiba Local...
Court convicts fake lawyer in Ekiti
An Ekiti State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, has sentenced one Abayomi Kayode to six months imprisonment for unlawfully parading himself as a...
Suspected kidnapper arrested by police in Kwara
The Kwara State Police Command, on Friday, announced the arrest of a transborder kidnap suspect from the Republic of Benin in Baruten Local Government Area...
Osun APC: TOP sheds more light into Oranmiyan House attack, accuses Gov Oyetola
More facts have emerged on how armed men attacked the Oranmiyan House Campaign office of Rauf Aregbesola, the immediate past governor of Osun State and...
Panic as prison official found dead along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway
The lifeless body of a man, identified as O.O Bawa, has been found near a military checkpoint along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway. The victim, who was identified...
Police arrest prison escapee over beheading of ex-officer
The Imo state police command on Friday disclosed that it had arrested the leader of a court group over the beheading of a retired Chief Superintendent of...
Aregbesola’s faction demands Osun CP’s removal over attacks
A faction in the All Progressives Congress supported by the Interior Minister, Rauf Aregbesola, in Osun state, has demanded the removal of the state Police...
Police arrest killer of retired CSP
The Imo state police command has nabbed one of the alleged killers of a retired Chief Superintendent of Police in the state, Christian Kpatuma. State...
US court postpones sentencing of Hushpuppi by five months, mum on Kyari
The United States Attorney’s Office at the Central District of California has postponed the sentencing of alleged international Internet fraudster Ramon...
#SaveAkungba: Students Of Ondo University Protest After Accident Claims Three Lives, Call For Barricade To Prevent More Deaths
Students of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba (AAUA), on Friday held a peaceful protest against the incessant occurrence of accidents in the...
BREAKING: Bandits Invade Police Station, Kill 3 Officers, Kidnap Others
Three police officers were on Thursday killed, while an unspecified number of others were abducted in a banditry raid of a police station in Niger State....
