Crime

A man suspected of killing a woman on Wednesday in Florida returned to the scene of the crime hours later and gunned down a television reporter and a nine-year-old girl, authorities said. Orange County Sheriff John Mina said that a 19-year-old man, Keith Melvin Moses, had been taken into custody...

A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that 29 persons be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged terrorism and culpable homicide. The police charged the defendants, who live at Ikpayongo Town in Gwer-East Local Government of Benue, with criminal conspiracy, act of terrorism, membership of an unlawful society...

Protesters on Tuesday shut the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway at the Sango-Ota axis over their inability to withdraw money from Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). They made bonfires of disused tyres on both sides of the highway causing serious traffic gridlock. Some of the protesters told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that...

GUNMEN on Sunday night burnt the Oguta High Court located in the Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State. Our source gathered that, the attackers arrived around 11.30pm and attacked the facility, which is located inside the local government headquarters. A source, who doesn’t want his name to be mentioned...

A mother of nine children, Maimuna, has reportedly committed suicide in Sajeri, Gumari ward of Jere Local Government Area of Borno State. Eyewitnesses told Daily Trust that the incident happened around 6:00pm on Saturday. One of the witnesses, Baa Modu, said the deceased children rushed out to inform them that...

The man who was murdered alongside South African rapper, Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes, has been identified as one of his best friends and former manager, Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane. Tebello was standing outside Wish Restaurant with AKA and others when gunmen in two cars opened fire, killing both men and injuring another...