Crime

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...

Residents said the funeral of 27 people had taken place while several others sustained various degrees of injuries. Dozens have also been kidnapped and hundreds of cattle rustled during the attack on neighboring villages. In Zamfara State, three people were killed in Shinkafi village. The police authorities in the states...

A farmer identified as Friday Omosigho, has committed suicide after attacking his wife using a machete over alleged infidelity in Benin City, Edo State. It was gathered that the incident happened at Ehiozevbaru village in Uhunmwode LGA of the state. DailyTrust learnt that the deceased had accused his wife, Mercy...

Troops of the 114 taskforce battalion of the Nigerian army have rescued one of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted by insurgents in 2014. On April 14, 2014, 276 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram terrorists from Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok town, Borno. Many of the girls have since been...

There was confusion in Amansea town of Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State over the disappearance of the corpse of the oldest man in the community, Pa Micheal Nwanwuba Onyekwelu, from a mortuary. Late Pa Onyekwelu aged 115 years, who was the oldest man in Amansea town died...