Crime

A Reverend Father, Charles Igechi at the Benin Archdiocese has been allegedly shot dead by gunmen in Benin City, Edo State. It was gathered that the priest was shot by gunmen on Wednesday along the Agbor Road, Ikhueniro area of Benin, on his way to his place of assignment. A...

THE Anambra State Police command has rescued two persons from being lynched by a mob in Ihiala local government area of the state over allegation that they killed three persons for money ritual. In a trending video, the suspects, a male and a female, were seen being paraded naked by...

A married Uber driver, Mohammed Jamal, 37, who was filmed having sex with a prostitute in the back of his cab has said his wife would be the one who will pay his fine. According to Dailymail on Wednesday, Jamal was arrested and charged with soliciting sex after a neighbour...

A student of Physics in the Federal University Lokoja (FUL) in Kogi State, identified simply as Williams, was reportedly stabbed to death on Saturday by an SS3 student for allegedly toasting the secondary student’s elder sister. City & Crime reports that before the incident in the late Williams’ father’s compound...

A pharmacist, Amos Nzioki, on Tuesday, was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku of Mombasa Magistrate Court for conducting an abortion on a 15-year-old girl. Nzioki was charged for allegedly conducting an induced abortion on the girl conceived through defilement by a yet-to-be-identified man who is now at large, K24tv...

An Edo High Court sentenced 19 internet fraudsters popularly known as ‘Yahoo Yahoo boys’ to prison for fraud on Tuesday. The Economic Financial Crimes Commission made this known in a statement shared on its Twitter handle on Wednesday. Justices Efe Ikponmwonba and M. Itsueli of Edo State High Court sitting...

18-year-old boy, Spencer Pearson, has stabbed his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend, Madison Schemitz, and her mother, Jackie Rog, outside a restaurant. According to DailyMail, Schemitz, a student at Ponte Vedra High School in the United States, was having lunch in the town with her mother and a friend, Casey Estep, when they...

A 21-year-old woman, Georgia Bilham, who posed as a man has been charged before a jury at Chester Crown Court in the United Kingdom for sexually assaulting another woman, 19, multiple times. Bilham took the identity of a fictitious character on her Snapchat profile, “George_132X” with an image of a...

The Nigerian Army, 81 Division, has arrested six persons impersonating military officers. Lieutenant Ayodeji Owoyomi, who spoke on behalf of the Commander, 81 Division Provost Group, Brigadier General Mohammed Abubakar, revealed this while addressing journalists at the Division in Victoria Island, Lagos on Monday. Some of the suspects, who were...

It was a drama at the Ondo State Magistrate Court in Odigbo, the headquarters of the Odigbo Local Government Area of the state, as a defendant, Segun Akala, ran out of the court premises after the magistrate ordered his remand. It was gathered that Akala was charged to court over...