Crime

A 46-year-old tenant, Usman Hammed, on Thursday appeared in Ogudu Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State, for allegedly assaulting his landlady, Josephine Durodola, over electricity bill. During court proceedings, the Prosecutor, Inspector Donjor Perezi, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on April 8, 2023 at around 9pm...

Justice Abiola Soladoye of Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Lagos State on Thursday sentenced 26-year-old electrician, Sunday George, to life imprisonment for defiling his neighbour’s 12-year-old daughter. Soladoye held that the prosecution sufficiently proved the charge of defilement against the convict who is “an irresponsible adult and...

A Nigerian man, Harrison Chinonso Onyema, was arrested on Wednesday after sneaking back into Thailand through water after being deported from the country for possessing cocaine. According to Thailand Post English, the 40-year-old Onyema was arrested by the Phuket Immigration and Chalong police station team on Wednesday in Phuket, for...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos Zonal Command, arrested a crossdresser, Owoseni Gabriel, and 32 other suspected internet fraudsters in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos State. The agency made this known in a statement via its Twitter handle on Wednesday. A Toyota Camry 2005 model, a Toyota Camry...

The South-West Security Network, popularly known as Amotekun, has arrested two suspected criminals pretending to be mentally-ill in Ondo State. The state commandant, Adetunji Adeleye, revealed this while parading 26 suspected criminals at the command’s headquarters in Akure, the state capital, on Wednesday. Adeleye noted that the suspects were arrested...

The Delta State Police Command has arrested four armed robbery suspects, recovering 30 rounds of 7.62 AK47 ammunition and 250 rounds of live cartridges. The police command made this known in a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Bright Edafe, and shared on its Twitter page on Wednesday. The...

The Edo State Police Command has arrested a Navy officer, Ibrahim Adamu, 25, and an officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Abdullahi Abdulwahab 26, over an alleged armed robbery and a car snatching. The state command spokesperson, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, while parading the suspects on Tuesday, said they were arrested...

The Anambra State Security Forces intercepted and neutralised a gang of four operating in an unregistered black Lexus SUV, recovering incriminating items along Usmusiome Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state. The police command made this known in a statement signed by the Anambra State Police Public Relations...

A 67-year-old Russian woman has been arrested by the police in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia’s second largest city, for hiring an assassin to kill her children over their inheritance. According to Metro UK on Monday, she ordered the murder of her son and two daughters in order to become the sole owner...

A British teenager, Woramet Taota, was discovered dead with head wounds in a forest in Thailand, with police searching for his missing girlfriend. Taota, 16, went for a motorcycle ride with a girl named Yam, also 16, in Lampang province of the country on Saturday evening, but neither of them...