Crime

Operatives of the Adamawa State Police Command on Friday said it had arrested five boys who specialise in burgling and stealing valuable items from peoples’ shops/ houses in the Yola North Local Government. The command on Friday said it also recovered one sewing Machine, generator, clothing materials, and cutlass from...

The Murtala Yakubu Ajaka Gubernatorial Campaign Organization is alarmed by the official confirmation of the Kogi State Commissioner of Police, Mr Akeem Yusuf that the extra judicial execution of an All Peoples Congress (APC) Chieftain, Mallam Kabir Okwo Bala and a housewife, Mrs Atima Abdullahi by gunmen unleashed on the...

A 31-year-old Nigerian, Uchenna Christian Nlemchi, has been extradited to the United States to face fraud charges. This was made known by the United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, Alexander M.M. Uballez, and FBI Special Agent Raul Bujanda, in a statement on Thursday. Nlemchi, who made his...

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...