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A doctor took to her twitter to narrate her encounter with a child who'd been raped by a 15-year-old boy whose mother claimed that he was a child who didn't know what he was doing, and thanked God that he did only "small". Read the…

A 14-year-old girl was abducted and gang raped twice in two days by two different groups of men in India. According to NDTV, the teenager left her home in Chhindwara, in Madhya Pradesh State, on the evening of July 6 when she met…

Operatives of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested six suspected bank robbers said to have operated in Kwara, Kogi, Niger, Kaduna States and Abuja. The suspects, James Obaje, 34, Nelson…

Aminu Saleh, the Kwara State Commissioner of Police on Tuesday said the police had arrested the Vice President of the Federal Polytechnic Offa Students’ Union Government. The police commissioner said the VP, Tajudeen Selim, was…

A 26-year-old woman, Mrs Bunmi Adebayo, says desperation to have a baby after 10 years of a childless marriage made her to steal a three-week-old baby in Modakeke, Osun State. She allegedly stole the baby, Oluwaseun David, on Sunday,…

A 24-year-old man, Lucky Friday, was on Monday brought before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly robbing an Uber driver of his Toyota Corolla car valued at N1.4 million after stabbing him in the stomach. Friday, whose address…

A four-man armed robbery gang were caught at Morogbo, in the Badagry area of Lagos State after they robbed a bank customer of N250,000 last Friday. The suspects were reportedly beaten to a pulp by a mob before they were handed over to…

A lawyer who is facing threats to his life by Ogun worshippers has raised an alarm in a petition he sent to the police. Ebenezer Tunde Omobobami, a native of Ile-Oluji in Ondo State, accused Ogun worshippers of attempting to force…

Deputy Superintendent of Prisons in the Nigerian Prisons Service, Mr Collins Ugwu, has been arrested by the police in Enugu for an alleged involvement in armed robbery. Ugwu, a native of Ezza in Ebonyi State, who resides in Abuja, where…

Police in Imo state have arrested a suspected kidnapper Nnamdi Ethelbert Ogidi who prefers kidnapping elderly women. The 34-year-old Ogidi was arrested by detectives attached to the Anti-kidnapping Squad of the Imo State Police…

A popular Pastor of the Celestine Church in Ozuri, Adavi Local government area of Kogi State,  Shegun has been arrested for allegedly killing a sex hawker for ritual purposes. The Senior Assistant on Media and Publicity to Adavi LGA,…

A worker with a bank in Lagos State, identified only as Bunmi, has been declared wanted for allegedly defrauding some customers of the bank. PUNCH Metro learnt that Bunmi hacked into customers’ bank accounts and diverted over N3m…

A Sharia court sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna on Thursday ordered the remand of one Abubakar Mustapha for allegedly enticing and wooing a married woman. Mustapha had pleaded not guilty to the charges, which contravened section…

The Enugu Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today, Thursday, June 7, 2018 obtained the conviction of one Chimankpa Nwakuna, who has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by Hon. Justice Lewis Algoa of the…

The Police Command in Lagos State, on Wednesday said it had arrested a 32-year-old house wife, Mrs Joy Iberibe, after she allegedly poured hot water on her husband, Ike Akachi, after altercation. The Commissioner of Police in Lagos,…