Crime

The trial has begun for a teenager, Paris Mayo, who allegedly killed her newborn baby boy four years ago. According to NYbreaking on Thursday, Mayo gave birth to baby Stanley in March 2019 at 15. During the trial at the Worchester Crown Court in England, the jury was told that...

Gunmen have killed Ex Army Captain, Tony Enoch, the Presidential Campaign Council Chairman for APC (Ahmed Bola Tinubu/Kashim Shettima) 2023 Presidential election in Oru-East. Our correspondent gathered that Enoch was also a kinsman of the Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma. Enoch, who is also the Coordinator for the Grow...

Anambra State Women and Social Welfare Commissioner, Hon Ify Obinabo has rescued a widow Mrs Patricia Eligbue from her relatives who forced her to drink water used in washing the corpse of her husband’s nephew. Narrating her ordeal to the Honourable Commissioner, Mrs Eligbue who lost her husband a long...

By Friday Idachaba, Lokoja Kogi State command of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), has arrested one Matthew Joseph, who allegedly specialises in trafficking underage children from Kaduna to Kogi State. Ahmad Gandi, Kogi State Commandant of the Corps disclosed this on Thursday in Lokoja while parading the...

The Abuja zonal command of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission has arrested eight suspected internet fraudsters at EFAB Estate in Gwarimpa and Federal Housing Authority Estate in Nyanya, Abuja. The agency said this in a statement shared via its Twitter account on Thursday, adding that 10 phones, laptops, two Toyota...

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...