Crime

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday arraigned social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha aka Mompha for N6,000,000,000 money laundry after he was re-arrested. The anti-graft agency’s counsel, Suleiman Suleiman, told Justice Mojisola Dada of Ikeja Special Offences Court in Lagos that the prosecution in collaboration with its international partners...

The Delta State Police Command has arrested suspected kidnappers, recovering one locally fabricated baretta pistol, one revolver pistol, two double barrel guns, and other ammunition. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Edafe Bright, made this known on Sunday via his Twitter page. The statement in part said, “In compliance with the...

A 17-year-old boy, Ade Segun, who planned his kidnap with his friends, Precious and Nonso, to defraud his parents of the sum of N2,000,000 has been arrested in Delta State. The spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Bright Edafe, disclosed this on his Twitter page on Friday. Edafe went...

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...