Crime

Indonesian authorities on Wednesday said they have arrested three Nigerians for allegedly trying to smuggle drugs into the country. Police spokesperson, Trunoyudo Wisnu Andika, told a news conference in Jakarta that three Nigerian men were arrested separately between January and March at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta and several apartments...

A House of Representatives member representing Bauchi Federal Constituency, Yakubu Shehu Abdullahi, has been declared wanted by police. He is wanted for alleged criminal conspiracy, causing grievous hurt, disturbance of public peace, and culpable homicide.

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Wednesday, sentenced a man, Stephen Francis, to life imprisonment for defiling an 11-year-old primary five pupil in his room. Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution had sufficiently proved the three essential ingredients of defilement against the convict. According to her,...

A man, Sidney Holmes, was released after serving more than 34 years of a 400-year prison sentence after the state of Florida reinvestigated the case and determined that he did not commit armed robbery. According to abcNEWS on Tuesday, a thorough re-investigation of the 1988 armed robbery case that led...

A Nigerian man, Gideon Vitallis, 24, has been arrested by operatives of the National Intelligence Bureau for the alleged murder of a Point of Sale operator, Patience Quaye, 32, at the Twumasiwaa Memorial Clinic in Accra, Ghana. She was allegedly found dead in a store room at the facility on...

Eighteen female guards have been fired for having illicit affairs with inmates at a cell in Britain. It was discovered that the relationships took place over the past six years at HMP Berwyn, Britain’s biggest prison, Daily Mail reported on Sunday. Chair of the Prison Officers’ Association, Mark Fairhurst, blamed...