Crime

Three policemen have reportedly lost their lives on Thursday following an attack on their checkpoint by gunmen. The gunmen according to an eyewitness, stormed the checkpoint at Umunze, Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State and opened fire on the officers. A source in the area said the gunmen...

Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Friday revealed that the Lagos State police officers filmed assaulting a man who allegedly refused to release his phone to them, had been identified. He made this known while giving an update on the viral video, stating that the Lagos State Police Public...

An abandoned newborn baby was found on Thursday with a hand-written note found beside it, suspected to have been left by the mother. According to MIMIMEFO, the baby was found early Thursday morning beside Mideno in Ntefinki quarter in Nkwen, Bamenda, North West region of Cameroon. “The baby was discovered...

Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Thursday called for an investigation into a viral video of police officers assaulting a man who refused to release his phone to them. A Twitter user had on Wednesday shared a video of officers assaulting a man, tagging the accounts of the Nigeria...

A 45-year-old Nigerian man was arrested on Wednesday in Taloja, India, for allegedly possessing 116 grams of mephedrone worth ₹11.6 lakh. The accused, identified as Boniface Emenike, was residing in the Taloja area of the country without a valid passport or visa. According to police inspector Basit Sayyed from the...

A 29-year-old mother, identified as Hanaa, killed her five-year-old son, Youssef, with a machete at their home in Egypt before boiling and eating parts of his head. Police arrested Hanaa after Youssef’s uncle found the boy’s body parts in buckets at the family house. According to the DailyMail on Tuesday,...

A 42-year-old woman, Fatima Rahman, from Chad Republic has been remanded to the Ikoyi Custodial Centre for the alleged murder of her co-wife, Adizat, at her residence in Alejo Street, Ijede, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. Fatima was arraigned on Tuesday before Magistrate P. E Nwaka at a...

The Economic Financial Crimes Commission has arrested arrested 18 suspected internet fraudsters in different locations within Enugu on Monday. The commission disclosed this in a statement shared on its Twitter handle on Tuesday. 20 mobile phones and 2 laptops were recovered from the suspects. The statement read, “Operatives of the...

A newly wedded bride, Samantha Miller, was killed by a drunk driver who slammed into the newlywed’s golf cart on a South Carolina beach, authorities disclosed on Monday. According to the Charleston County coroner’s office, the 34-year-old who had just gotten married hours earlier died in the wreck which left...

Kidnapped former President of the Nigeria Bar Association, Okey Wali, has regained his freedom after spending two weeks in captivity. Wali, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, was abducted by armed men dressed in military uniform at the Obiri-Kwere area of the East-West Road in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of...