A New Haven, Connecticut, United States Court has sentenced a 39-year-old Nigerian, Okechukwu Valentine Osuji, to eight years in prison after he was found guilty of...
A 28-year-old man identified as Sikuru Morufu, has been arraigned for allegedly stealing N3,000 from a commercial sex worker. Morufu who was arraigned before a Mapo...
Worried by the escalating spate of high profile crimes including killings and abductions in the South-West, pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has called on governors in the...
Spokesman for the Delta Police Command, DSP Bright Edafe, has confirmed the discovery of a cache of arms and ammunition hidden in sacks in the Ekpan...
Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have gunned down two notorious kidnap kingpins who were on the most wanted list of the command. The Command’s...
An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan on Tuesday, sentenced a serial fraudster, Olaniyan Gbenga Amos, to 75 years in prison after he was found...
The Ekiti State Police Command has launched a manhunt for suspects behind a deadly robbery operation at two banks in Ikere-Ekiti on Wednesday where about three...
The management of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, has disowned two female students who were arrested and paraded on Wednesday at the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters, Abuja,...
Two ladies identified as Adama Joseph and Oreoluwa Davies, have been arrested for allegedly killing a Kwara State club owner and socialite, Adeniyi Ojo, during a...
An 18-year-old pregnant housewife, Khadija Adamu, has been arrested by the Bauchi State Police Command for allegedly beating her five-year-old step-daughter to death for defecating on...
A 40-year-old Singaporean woman, Saridewi Djamani, has been sentenced to death after she was found guilty of trafficking a total of 1kg of drugs containing 30.72g...
A police officer was on Friday shot dead and two others seriously injured after a gunman opened fire on a busy street in Fargo in North...
Operatives of the Kwara State Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested 13 Chinese nationals over their alleged involvement in illegal mining...
A 41-year-old woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Esther Mwanza, has been arrested by the police in South Africa for allegedly trafficking women from...
A 26-year-old woman, Maria Ahmadu, has been arrested by the police in Lagos for allegedly attempting to sell her nine-month-old baby. Spokesman of the State Police...
A serial murder suspect arrested by the police in Osun State, Saheed Wasiu, popularly known as K-Federal, has confessed to killing over 20 people before the...
Four members of a kidnap syndicate who carry out their operations around the Nkpor-Umuoji-Ideani Road axis of Anambra State have been eliminated by security operatives. This...
An Abuja-based woman identified as Omoseyin Oluwadarasimi Esther, has been arrested by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), for allegedly selling the...
A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced a man to death by hanging for killing four persons and using their intestines to prepare pepper...
The trial of the Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Drambi Vandi, who shot and killed a pregnant female lawyer, Omobolanle Raheem in the Ajah area of...
A 19-year-old house maid, Cynthia Ikade, was on Thursday, arraigned before a Yaba Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, for allegedly leading a gang to rob her employer,...
Two bankers, Agbo John Agama and Edoh Steve were on Wednesday convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment by Justice Mojisola Olajuwon of the Federal High...
Police have confirmed the arrest and prosecution of a 22-year-old suspect, Chidubem Osuagwu, for allegedly murdering and stealing the car of his “sugar mummy”, Amarachi Chukwu,...
Some angry youths on Wednesday stripped naked and set ablaze two young men who allegedly tried to rob POS operators at the Independence Layout area of...
The Philippines Bureau of Corrections Director-General, Gerald Bantag, has been accused of ordering the murder of a prominent journalist and government critic, Percival Mabasa, who was...
A middle-aged man has been arrested by the police in Ondo State for allegedly setting ablaze five of his stepchildren on Sunday. The sad incident occurred...
The death of one Adamu Babanta, a 67 year old retired civil servant resident in Yelwa Labura area of Bauchi metropolis on Monday, has led to...
A 46-year-old man, Abubakar Mohammed, was on Wednesday sentenced to death by a High Court sitting in Yola, Adamawa State, for killing his girlfriend, Christiana Augustine,...
A reprisal attack launched by suspected herdsmen in the Gbeji community in Ukum local government area of Benue State on Wednesday saw two police officers and...
The Rivers State Police Command has disclosed that two men believed to be members of a disbanded vigilante group called OSPAC in the Ompovan Ibaa, Emouha...
The Nigeria Security Tracker (NST), has raised an alarm over the violent killing of no fewer than 5,222 Nigerians across the country between January and June...
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a middle-aged housewife, Memunat Salaudeen, for allegedly conniving with three suspects to kidnap her husband over his alleged stingy...
A Bill proposing for life imprisonment for the “offence of kidnapping or any form of abduction, wrongful restraint and confinement,” on Tuesday, passed the second reading...
A kidnap and armed robbery suspect, Sanusi Lauwali, alias ‘No Delay,’ who was arrested by the police in Bauchi State, has confessed that anytime there is...
The pastor of a church in Imo State, Jesus Life Assembly, located at School Garden, Uratta in Owerri North Local Government Area of the state, Evangelist...
The U.S. embassy in Kabul on Saturday called on American citizens to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible due to the security issues in the country....
Uduak Frank Akpan, the alleged killer of a 24-year-old job seeker in Akwa Ibom State, Iniubong Umoren, has pleaded guilty to murder when he was arraigned...
Unknown gunmen dressed in military fatigue, suspected to be kidnappers, again abducted Madam Betinah Benson, the 90-year-old mother of the Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government...
Three Nigerians, Jango Nicolas (29), Monday Okeke (26) and Paulinus Mbanugo (29), all residents of Nilothi Extension, New Delhi, India, have been arrested by the Pune...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, has advised the Federal Government not to use “bullets and other forces of arms alone” to fight banditry, armed robbery, and other...
Five suspected kidnappers met their waterloo on Sunday in Edo State as angry youths set them ablaze after they were apprehended along the Afuze-Uokha Road in...
A 43-year-old woman, Sharon Williams, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly locking up and assaulting her five-year-old nephew for six months....
A Nigerian pastor serving with a branch of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), in Ireland, Ebenezer Oduntan, has been reportedly arrested by the Irish...
A High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State, has sentenced a 24-year-old man, Dayo Asiwaju, to life imprisonment after he was found guilty...
The family of the late CEO of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, who was allegedly murdered by a 300-level student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Chidinma...
A 40-year-old Frenchwoman, Valerie Bacot, who admitted to killing her abusive husband, fainted with shock and relief when a court set her free on Friday. The...
A 27-year-old armed robbery suspect, Gbenga Kikiowo, who was arrested by the Ondo State Police Command, has confessed that he does not have any other job...
A Police Inspector, Nathaniel Manasseh, has been arrested by the Cross River State Police Command for allegedly selling firearms and ammunition to criminals. Manasseh who was...
The Lagos State Police Command, has arrested a 35-year-old man, Kingsley Achugbu, for allegedly defiling his two-year-old daughter and sexually harassing his wife’s maid. Achugbu was...
A 35-year-old ex-convict, Emmanuel Joseph, has been arrested by the Ondo State Police Command for allegedly raping and robbing an 80-year-old woman, Alice Mogbonjubola, at her...
