Crime

A 24-year-old pregnant woman, Abigail Eguta, has been arrested in Anambra State for allegedly brutalising her seven-year-old nephew for eating fish and failing to recite the English alphabet. This was made known in a post shared by the Ministry of Women and Social Welfare Anambra State on Facebook. The woman...

A Kenyan lady, Imelda Kigunda, has been charged with unlawfully damaging a car belonging to her lover, Vincent Alata, because he cheated on her. Kigunda was said to have damaged the car by hitting the windscreen, and his television. According to the a Kenyan news outlet, The Star, on Wednesday,...

President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday  expressed condolences on the loss of lives of two United States embassy officials and two Nigerian policemen accompanying them in an attack by gunmen in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State. “I was very sad hearing about the killing of the embassy staff and our...

The Nigeria Police Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, has stated that handcuffing any suspect before detention is standard procedure. He said this in response to an inquiry via his Twitter handle on Monday. A tweep, Omo David, questioned the police for handcuffing singer Seun Kuti after he walked in...

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...