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Sexagenarian hubby, wife caught dismembering interred corpse, faces trial

  A couple who allegedly dug up a corpse and dismembered it with others still on the run, is facing trial in Osun...

Breaking: Gun duel with cultists : Assistant Police Commissioner feared dead

  A bloody cultists’ war in Benin City, Edo State capital, has reportedly claimed the life of an Assistant Commissioner of Police (name withheld). Two rival...

Five persons nabbed, arms recovered in foiled attack on Lagos police station

    By Boye Ajayi The Lagos State Police Command have apprehended five suspected hoodlums in a fresh attack on a Police station...

$3.5m U.S. bank fraud: 3 Nigerians face 42 years in jail 

….case adjourned until Nov. 13, 18 Three foreign nationals charged with $3.5 million bank fraud in the U.S., may be jailed 42 years cumulatively if convicted....

High Court Registrar jailed for N80m theft, issues cheques in wife’s name

      For issuing cheques to his wife to steal N80 million from government’s coffers, Joseph Etefia Udoh, now a retired  Registrar...

10-year-old boy tied, tortured for 18 months by father, stepmother for being ‘possessed’

    By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   A 10-year-old old boy in Ikot Udota, Eket, Akwa Ibom State, has been rescued by the...

#EndSARS protest at Lagos Lekki Toll Gate, Ojo in Ibadan turns bloody as security forces open fire 

      By Boye Ajayi Following the imposition of a 24-hour curfew in Lagos State, policemen and soldiers, who were deployed to...

37-year-old pervert bags three years in jail for having sex with chickens

A 37-year-old, Rehan Baig, has been jailed for three years by the Bradford Crown Court in UK, after horrifying footage of him sexually abusing...

In an Operation Swoop, EFCC nabs nine suspected internet fraudsters in Ogun

  In Ogun State, at least, nine suspected internet fraudsters were in the early hours of Wednesday picked up from their hideout by...

EFCC suspect forges own death certificate to escape justice, beaten to his game

    A man, who announced his own death and forged death certificate to escape justice, has been beaten to his own game by...

Five internet fraudsters bag 192 months imprisonment

By Boye Ajayi Five internet fraudsters in Abeokuta, Ogun capital, are to spend 192 cumulative months behind bars, a court ruled on Friday....

Update: Police arrest Jealous wife who killed her children to settle scores with hubby

  A housewife, 26-year-old Hauwa Habibu has been apprehended by the Kano State Police Command over the killing of her two children at...

IGP’s directive: Two FSARS operatives, civilian accomplice nabbed over extortion, intimidation

By Boye Ajayi Insps. Sale James and Monday Uchiola of the Federal Special Anti-robbery Squad (FSARS) and their civilian collaborator, Okechukwu Ogbonna, have...

Internet scammer, his pastor in EFCC net over N12.7m fraud

  By Boye Ajayi Suspected cybercriminal (Yahoo boy), Adebayo Olawale and his pastor, Gbenga Adesoju, a pastor in Ile-Ife, Osun State, are currently...

Jealous wife kills her children, injures niece to settle scores with hubby marrying second wife  

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   Diso village in Gwale Local Government area of Kano State has been thrown into panic and mourning...

Ekiti pastor shot dead on his banana plantation

        A part-time pastor and staff of a local government in Ekiti State has been gunned down and his body...