Crime

The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday, arraigned an Ilorin-based associate pastor with the Living Faith Church also known as Winners Chapel, Temidayo Eseyin, for allegedly defrauding Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, to the tune of N19.3 million. Eseyin, a lawyer and former member...

A man suffering from epilepsy, Amos Christopher, has been apprehended by the Adamawa State Police Command for allegedly beating his ​​four-year-old brother, Thyson, to death. Amos, a 24-year-old who lives in Dobi village in Ga’anda District, Gombi Local Government Area, allegedly committed the act in one of the apartments in...

A 60-year-old pastor, Chukwuemeka Orji, was remanded in a Correctional centre on Tuesday by an Aba South Senior Magistrate’s Court over the alleged rape of a minor. The Assemblies of God Church cleric is facing one count of serially raping a 13-year-old girl who lived with him. The rape survivor...

Anambra government on Tuesday warned brothel operators to stop using underage girls to run their businesses or face prosecution. Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, gave the warning in Awka on Tuesday while reacting to the rescue of 12 such girls from brothels in the state capital...

Three members of a family including the wife and children of an overseas returnee have allegedly been abducted in Kwara State. The incident, it was gathered, occurred in Okanle-Fajeromi community in Ifelodun Local Government Area, on Monday around 11:00 pm. The gunmen allegedly invaded the community located near Idofian and...

A 35-year-old father of two, Kabiru Abdullah, has been arrested for allegedly raping a three-year-old girl in Kaduna State. City & Crime reports that the vigilantes in Zaria City arrested the suspect on June 8 and handed him over to the police in the city. DSP Mohammed Jalige, the Public...

The Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced a man, Eniola Ibrahim, to life imprisonment for raping his girlfriend. Justice Rahmon Oshsodi found Mr Ibrahim guilty of having sexual intercourse with his girlfriend without her consent. Mr Oshodi, in his judgment, held that the prosecution had proved...

A 43-year-old Pastor with Mountain of Fire and Miracles (Worldwide), Chinedu Eze, has recounted how he was detained in prison for 14 years following his alleged refusal to cooperate with police on an issue he claimed he had no knowledge about. He, however, said that while in prison, he enrolled...

An Independent National Electoral Commission personnel, Emmanuel Igwe, has been reportedly shot dead by armed men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, in Ebonyi State. His wife was also abducted by the suspected herders. Her whereabouts were yet to be ascertained till now. They (the suspected herders) also allegedly murdered the...

The operatives of the Anambra Vigilante Group have killed two suspected gunmen said to be terrorising residents of the state. It was gathered that the incident happened in the early hours of Monday in Okija, Ihiala Local Government Area of the state. The Ihiala LGA is a border town between...