crime

A Magistrates’ Court in Minna has ordered the remand of a 20-year-old housewife, Zulai Kabiru, standing trial for allegedly killing her eight-months-old step daughter. The accused is standing trial on a count charge of culpable…

A witness, Izuchukwu Ezeuko, on Thursday told an Igbosere High Court in Lagos how he dropped $1 million dollar ransom for the alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans. The ransom was to save Mr. James…

A 15-year-old girl was beaten and hanged from a tree after she fought off a gang of teens who tried to rape her in India. Suvita Yadav’s body was found hanged in a village in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. She was hanged on the tree using…

Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have murdered 18 persons in an attack that took place in Ariri community in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State on Wednesday, October 4th night. Four persons were also injured in the attack.…

The Edo state poloice command have arrested a middle-aged man, Friday Moses, for allegedly raping and impregating his 13-year-old daughter in the Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the state. The suspect was arrested after members…

An Ikeja High Court on Wednesday sentenced a 28-year-old man, Collins Abakwe, to 10 years’ imprisonment for stabbing his younger brother, Chibuike Abakwe, to death during an argument over a woman. The Justice Raliat Adebiyi-led court…

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arraigned Senate President Bukola Saraki’s Deputy Chief of Staff Gbenga Makanjuola at the Federal High Court in Lagos for alleged N3.5 billion fraud. He and three others…

A man has taken to Facebook to accuse a soldier in Abuja of brutalising his daughter after an argument unsued between the pair. According to man, Tersoo Samson Akula, who has a multi -Purpose shop, the soldier who he named only as…

Limpopo cops have launched a manhunt for a rape suspect after a grandmother who is believed to be in her 90’s was raped. It is alleged that the elderly woman went to sleep at around 8:30 pm and at about 4:00 am, she was surprised by…

A 30-year-old commercial bus driver alleged to have been having carnal knowledge of his two step- daughters for years have been arrested in Bariga area of Lagos. Trouble started for the victims (names withheld) aged 13 and 16 respectively,…

The Police in Lagos have smashed a kidnap syndicate which specialised in abducting toddlers in Lagos and selling them to ready buyers in the eastern part of the country.Arrested, were three suspected members of the syndicate, all women,…

Senior Pastor of the Household of God church, Chris Okotie, has declared his intention to run for president in the 2019 election. He declared his intention to run for the presidency under the platform of the Fresh Democratic Party…

A police officer and five others were killed at a beer parlor around Okpoga area of Benue state at about 9pm yesterday September 29th. A statement released by the command's spokesperson, DSP. Moses Joel Yamu, said sporadic gunshots…

19-year-old Saheed Emmanuel has been handed 2 years imprisonment without an option of fine for scamming a 60-year old woman by stripping her naked under the false pretense of delivering from evil spirits. The incident took place at…

A 60-year-old Ghanaian, Bonga Augustus, on Thursday September 27th, killed his wife and himself with an axe after an argument at their home in Baba Ijebu Village, Akanran, Ona Ara council area of Ibadan, Oyo State According to…