Crime

A family rejected a coffin brought by their son-in-law for his mother-in-law’s burial in Tombo Mbatie, in the Buruku Local Government Area of Benue State. A Facebook user, Bem Raphael Aondongu, disclosed this via his page on Thursday. According to him, the family rejected the casket because it was not...

The Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom, Justice Ekaette Obot, has released 45 inmates across the state during her facility visit to the Correctional Centres. The Chief judge made the disclosure while briefing newsmen in Uyo on Friday after a three-day facility visit to correctional centres in the state. Obot called...

The Anambra Police Command says it has no hand in the murder of a middle-aged man at Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra. The Command’s Public Relation Officer, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, made the claims in a press statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...

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...