Category: Crime

Mother, children jailed 38 years for human trafficking, exploitation

  Nationnewslead reports that A Benin High Court, Edo State, on Monday sentenced a woman and her children to 38 years’ imprisonment for trafficking a 19-year-old...

Motorcyclist ‘stabs’ tricycle operators’ leader to death

  Nationnewslead reports that the Lagos State Police Command has launched manhunt for a motorcyclist, who allegedly killed the Deputy Chairman, Tricycle Owners and...

Man, 70, arrested for impregnating his 15-year-old granddaughter

  Men of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 70-year-old man, Hunsu Sunday for allegedly defiling his 15 years old granddaughter (name withheld) and...

Man kills girlfriend, buries corpse

  The decomposing body of a bar attendant, Oritoke Manni, has been found at a site in Otolu town, Akodo, in the Lekki Local Council Development Area of Lagos State....

Osun Court Remands Two Female Suspects Over Attempted Murder Of Gov Gboyega Oyetola During EndSARS Protest

  By Nafisat Arogundade, Osogbo Osun State Police command on Wednesday dragged two ladies before the state Magistrate court for attempted murder the Osun state...

Two to die by hanging in Ekiti

  An Ado-Ekiti High court on Wednesday sentenced two accused persons Lanre Kayode (34) and Olanrewaju Aremu (35) to death by hanging. In his judgment, Justice Lucas...

BRT Driver Arraigned For Manslaughter

  Nationnewslead reports that The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned a Bus Rapid Transit driver, Bohan Abiodun, before a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ogba...

Just In: Court remands 3 #EndSARS protesters in prison over looting, murder in Osogbo

  Nationnewslead reports that The Chief Magistrates Court sitting in Osogbo has remanded three #EndSARS protesters arrested in connection with the vandalization of...

Teenager allegedly beaten to death for stealing father’s N15,000

  Nationnewslead reports that A sixteen year old boy, James Undie was allegedly beaten to death at the weekend, in Obudu Local Government Area of Cross River State...

Caretaker Stabs Mechanic To Death Over Electricity Bill

  Nationnewslead reports that A 42-year-old caretaker, Matthew Ahiwe is currently cooling off in the police net in Umuahia, Abia State capital after reportedly...

Assault: Absence of defence witness stalls hearing in suit against police officer, father

  The hearing in a N50 million damage suit against a Police Officer, DSP Ibrahim Kawu and his father, Audu, over assault on Elder Olusegun Otolorin, was, on Friday,...

Life Jail For Man Who Abducted Three Secondary School Pupils

  A High Court in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, has sentenced one Kayode Seun, 28, to life imprisonment for kidnapping three secondary school pupils....

Court Remands Three Persons For Smashing Local Govt Secretariat In Osun

  By Ismail Azeez, Osogbo. A Magistrate court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State capital on Thursday ordered the remand of three men for unlawfully breaking into...

Man to die by hanging over armed robbery in Osun

  Osun State High Court sitting in Ede on Thursday sentenced one Rafiu Saheed, 44, to death by hanging for armed robbery. The accused was first arraigned on...

Police arrest 5 suspected cultists over death of 25-year-old man

  The Ogun Police Command says it has arrested five suspected members of a dreaded cult group for allegedly unleashing terror on the people of Ifo town in the early...