Crime

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Terrible tragedy! Widower of late Information Minister, Prof. Dora Akunyili, killed

  Prowling gunmen have again wreak havoc in Anambra State following the assassination of Dr Chike Akunyili, the widower of former Information Minister,...

I used her hands for money-making soap, ritualist in police net confesses

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh Two men are currently cooling their heels in police net in Kwara over the alleged beheading and cutting...

Woman, husband poison 10-year-old step-son fatally over alleged witchcraft

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh A woman, Rita Umoh, and her husband Akan Umoh, have been arrested by the Akwa Ibom State Police...

Usifo Ataga: Chidinma, Quadri to be charged with murder at Lagos High Court for alleged murder — LASG

By Ajuma Edwina Ameh The Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Mrs Olayinka Adeyemi, has recommended murder charges against Chidimma Ojukwu and...

Factory where moldy, sticky, spoilt rice is repackaged, sold uncovered in Benue

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh A rice mill that repackages and sells moldy, spoilt rice has been uncovered in Wadata area of Makurdi,...

Daredevil tenant kills landlord with stone over electricity bill 

In what appeared like a daredevilry act, a tenant has let loose his anger on his landlord fatally, who had asked him for his...

School children kidnapping most thriving, lucrative industry in Nigeria, fast impoverishing ransom-paying parents

  Amid a rash of abductions in the Northwest Nigeria put at 1,000 students and pupils since December 2020, parents of abductees have...

Father murders son for refusing to forsake his faith in Jesus

  A 20-year-old man in Uganda who had converted from Islam to Christianity was tied up and murdered by his own father after...

Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga’s murder: Receivers of his N2.5m MacBook, IPhone 7 worth N150, 000, Chidinma’s dad land in court

    ….case has been fixed for Sept. 6, 2021 for mention   Five people including the receivers of MacBook valued at N2.5...

47 days after, Chidinma Ojukwu, prime suspect in Super TV CEO, Usifo Ataga’s murder, arraigned in court, remanded in prison

  …case adjourned until Sept. 5, 2021 for DPP’s advice About 47 days after her arrest and detention by police, Chidinma Ojukwu, prime...

Suspected ritualists rob, gang-rape, kill 50-year-old woman in Delta

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   A 50-year-old woman, Mrs Patience Komore, from Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, has been...

DCP Abba Kyari: U.S Government sends formal request for arrest

The United States of America has requested for the arrest and detention of DCP Abba Kyari. The U.S in court papers obtained by...

Couple bags three years in jail for starving, incarcerating 12-year-old niece in fridge for eight months

Emmanuel Bassey and his wife, Esther, have been sentenced to three years imprisonment by the Sokoto Magistrates’ Court for starving and confining their...

“Man of God” eats “forbidden apple”, bags life imprisonment

“He is a danger to our children, I have no choice, the defendant is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment” A horny 29- year-old...

In Ekiti State, in spite of stiff penalties for rape, an incestuous father has deflowered his 11-year-old daughter

In spite of the stiff penalties for rape and other forms of sexual violence in Ekiti State, an incestuous father has chosen to...

How Obaseki scammed American woman he met online of $310K

A Nigerian man based in New Jersey was arrested and charged with scamming a woman he met online out of more than $300,000...