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Woman serial shop-breaker and ex-convict bags another three years in jail 

  A woman ex-convict, who broke into a shop and stole confectionery worth N50, 000, is to spend the next three years behind...

Kidnap kingpin Wadume: FG denies shielding soldiers from prosecution

    The Justice Minister and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN) has described as untrue  allegations that he shielded from...

49-Year-Old Man Confesses to Rape, Killing of Nigerian American Activist in Florida

  A man has confessed to killing a Nigerian- American activist Oluwatoyin Salau in Tallahassee, Florida, US Police said. On June 15, the...

Maersk MD’s wife’s murder: Two cousins remanded in prison

Two cousins — Olamilekan Oke and Akande Adeyinka — have been remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre, Lagos, over alleged rape and murder...

Bizarre ! 22-year-old man rapes she-pig at a piggery, faces trial

      For having a carnal knowledge of an animal without its content, a 22- year-old man was onTuesday hauled up before...

Nigerian American protester Oluwatoyin Salau, 19, found dead in Florida

  Oluwatoyin Salau, a 19-year-old protester who begged for justice in the wake of Black lives lost, has died. Police and her family...

Nigeria records 717 rape cases in five months, says IG-P

            No fewer than 717 rape cases were reported across the country with 799 suspects arrested from January to...

ln Ibadan, another student raped, stabbed fatally, the third in two weeks 

    Barely two weeks after, prowling rapists have again struck in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, killing another female student, 21-year-old Grace...

13-year-old gang raped by four youths in Kaduna as reported cases soar in Nigeria

  A 13-year-old girl in Kaduna was allegedly gang-raped by four men after she was drugged,  the Kaduna State Ministry of Human Services...

Police nab three dare-devil siblings for kidnap, murder of widow

  Three bloodthirsty siblings, who allegedly kidnapped and gruesomely murdered a 55-year old mother of five in Abuja and bolted to Imo State,...

Five years after, child defiler gets death sentence for fatally raping baby

    A child defiler, who ravished a 33-month-old baby and snuffed her out is to die by hanging, a Nigerian court has ruled....

Reprieve as ICPC withdraws N1.1b fraud charge against ex-Customs boss, Dikko

  After about two years of evading trial, a former Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Inde Dikko and two others were let...

Another teenage female student gang-raped, stabbed to death in Ibadan

  Barely a week after a female university student was gang-raped and murdered in Benin City, Edo State, another student has been fatally...

Sexual promiscuity and rape: Exxon Mobil engineer bags 15 years in jail

  For his unrestrained sexual promiscuity and raping his tenant’s teenage girl, an EX- Exxon Mobil engineer, James Onuoha, is to spend 15 years...

Octogenarian hubby knifes septuagenarian wife to death

  Overtaken by wrath and dementia, an octogenarian and former Director-General of a government radio station has knifed his septuagenarian wife to death...

Theft from dead man’s estate: Lawyer, council official face N167.8m fraud charge

    A lawyer and an official of Oyo State Council are facing trial at an Igbosere High Court on Lagos Island for...