Crime

A gang, made up of a Nigerian national and three Saudi Arabians, involved in the smuggling and sale of cocaine have been arrested with about 2.2 kilograms of the drug seized from the suspect, Saudi Gazette reported on Monday. The Police Criminal Investigation Department revealed that it foiled an attempt...

An Area Court in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Monday sentenced Emmanuel Christopher, 25, to one month in prison for stealing a sheep. The Judge, Shawomi Bokkos, sentenced the convict after he pleaded guilty to the two charges of trespass and theft and begged the court for leniency. The...

 A group of Vigilante operatives in Kogi State has rescued 134 victims allegedly abducted from various parts of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and held down in forests located in Kogi and Nasarawa States. A statement signed by Onogwu Muhammed, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor Yahaya Bello, on Monday...

A Ghanaian court has sentenced two employees of Pizzaman eatery, Seidu Karim and Rashid Abdullah, to five years imprisonment for stealing 20 boxes of chicken wings and two gallons of cooking oil from the company’s warehouse in Kumasi, Ghana. According to Ghana News Guide on Friday, prosecuting officer, ASP Jonas...

The Lagos State Police Command on Friday said that its men raided the shanties around the popular Alaba International Market in the Ojo Local Government Area of the state while acting on credible information. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this via his Twitter handle. He stated...

A Nigerian student at Bangor University, North Wales, United Kingdom, John Nwadiaju, was sentenced to 11 months imprisonment and suspended for one year for violently attacking and abusing his wife, Kosisochukwu Echem. According to North Whales Chronicle, on Friday, the 34-year-old was handed the sentence, which included 250 hours of...

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...