Crime

An Edo High Court sentenced 19 internet fraudsters popularly known as ‘Yahoo Yahoo boys’ to prison for fraud on Tuesday. The Economic Financial Crimes Commission made this known in a statement shared on its Twitter handle on Wednesday. Justices Efe Ikponmwonba and M. Itsueli of Edo State High Court sitting...

18-year-old boy, Spencer Pearson, has stabbed his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend, Madison Schemitz, and her mother, Jackie Rog, outside a restaurant. According to DailyMail, Schemitz, a student at Ponte Vedra High School in the United States, was having lunch in the town with her mother and a friend, Casey Estep, when they...

A 21-year-old woman, Georgia Bilham, who posed as a man has been charged before a jury at Chester Crown Court in the United Kingdom for sexually assaulting another woman, 19, multiple times. Bilham took the identity of a fictitious character on her Snapchat profile, “George_132X” with an image of a...

The Nigerian Army, 81 Division, has arrested six persons impersonating military officers. Lieutenant Ayodeji Owoyomi, who spoke on behalf of the Commander, 81 Division Provost Group, Brigadier General Mohammed Abubakar, revealed this while addressing journalists at the Division in Victoria Island, Lagos on Monday. Some of the suspects, who were...

It was a drama at the Ondo State Magistrate Court in Odigbo, the headquarters of the Odigbo Local Government Area of the state, as a defendant, Segun Akala, ran out of the court premises after the magistrate ordered his remand. It was gathered that Akala was charged to court over...

A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced the presiding pastor of a new generation Church, Chidiebere Okoroafor, to death by hanging for multiple murders. Pastor Okoroafor, who is the General Overseer of the Altar of Solution and Healing Assembly based in Oyigbo, Rivers State, was standing trial for...

Egyptian Public Prosecution has said that Hanaa Hassan, a 29-year-old woman who allegedly hacked her five-year-old son, Youssef, to death with a machete and ate parts of his head after cooking it has no mental disorders. Hassan was charged to the criminal court to stand trial for the planned murder...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two Yoruba nation agitators. The police said they were arrested in the early hours of Sunday when the agitators stormed Alausa Police Division chanting, “Yoruba Nation has taken over.” In a series of tweets posted on the Lagos Police Command handle, @LagosPoliceNG and...

Operatives of the Adamawa State Police Command have rescued kidnapped pastors from a kidnappers’ hideout in Gujubabu Hill, Yola South Local Government. The police also neutralise one of the suspects. This was made known in a press statement signed by the state police public relations officer, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje,...

The Nasarawa State Police Command says it has arrested five suspected kidnappers and rescued two of their victims. The victims were recently abducted by the suspects in the Wamba Local Government Area of the state. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Ramhan Nansel, made the disclosure in Lafia...