crime

A 30-year-old auto mechanic, Sani Mohammed, who was recently arrested by the Niger state police command after a failed attempt to kidnap one Stella Agbachi, along Top Medical Road, Tunga, Minna, the state capital, says he ventured into…

A mother, Folashade Odubayo,  was on the run after she threw her two-year-old son, Rilwan Asore, inside a well in Ajegunle, Lagos state. On Wednesday August 1st, Folashade, who has three children for three different men, was arrested…

A man who claims to be a pastor was caught stealing a goat at Akukwa village in Igbo-Ukwu, Anambra state. He was tied up with the stolen goat and beaten after he was caught. He was also interrogated by village vigilante members of…

There was mild drama on Thursday at the Ondo state police command headquarters as a middle-age man allegedly held for the murder of his boss over unpaid salary, protested that he should not be paraded alongside suspected armed robbers…

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 21-year-old lady who allegedly pushed her boyfriend from a window of a storey building in Ajagbandi area of Lagos, while trying to prevent him from searching through her phone. The…

A young man who goes by the name Christopher Arigidi has been accused of defiling a 3-year-old girl in the Apata community in the Ese-Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State. He was alleged to have used engine oil as lubrication…

Three sisters have confessed to stabbing their abusive father to death after "years of torture" and they are now facing 15 years in jail. The teenagers Kristina, 19, Angelina, 18 and Maria, 17, are accused of murdering their…

A Nigerian national, was deported on Saturday morning, July 28, after his bid to smuggle cocaine to Singapore was foiled by a courier firm in Kondhwa India on June 26. Idoko Fablan Ojigichi, who was in Kondhwa on a business visa had…

An armed robber was set ablaze today after himself after his accomplice, who managed to escape, shot a lady dead outside a commercial bank at the Suru-Alaba area in Lagos. According to an eyewitness who sent in the photos, two men…

A man escaped lynching in Bahati, Nakuru, Kenya, on Wednesday after a mob accosted him for bestiality. John Mwaura, 29, was reportedly caught pants down after he sneaked in the compound to engage in the unnatural act with a neighbour's cow.…

An operative of the Nigerian Navy, Usman Shaibu, has been arrested by the police in Delta State for allegedly stealing multi-billion naira properties belonging to a former Niger Delta militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias…

A woman who couldn’t control her anger has burnt down a house, because she was not invited to a party. The woman from Tennessee has been accused of setting fire to a home because she wasn’t invited to a party. Shameka Howse was…

Police in Lagos state have arrested a 27-year-old university dropout, Destiny Otubambo, for alleged theft and obtaining by false pretences. Parading the suspect before newsmen in the command's headquarters in Ikeja yesterday July…

Two guards attached to Topline Security Company, a firm contracted by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation , to protect its Pipeline right of way in Lagos, have been murdered and buried in a shallow graves in Ilashe , near ATLAS…

A notorious armed robber was killed in a shootout with police and vigilante group along Wamba Road in Akwanga, Nassarawa State on Sunday. According to reports, the armed robber had been terrorizing residents of the area before a manhunt…