Crime

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Judge to rapist: You are guilty as charged! Convict, 27, begins lifelong journey to jail

  The full weight of the law and maximum penalty for rapists has been invoked by a court in Ekiti State as a...

War against cultism: Lagos Police nab 19 suspects at Alakuko

  In its relentless war to rout cultists and other bandits, the Lagos State Police Command on Monday captured 19 suspected cultists during...

Thieving pastor bolts with Winners’ Chapel’s $90,000 and N4.5m, bags 36 months in jail

  For snitching Winners’ Chapel’s $90,000 and N4.5 million, a pastor/accountant of the church at the headquarters, Ota in Ogun, Afolabi Samuel, is...

HIV-racked 70-year-old man arrested for raping 5-year-old toddler

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh A 70-year-old man has been apprehended by the police for serially raping a five-year-old girl in Gwer West...

Lagos Police Commissioner’s Special Squad smokes out cultists, bandits from hideouts, nabs five

    A special strike force of the Lagos State Police Command has whupped some criminals after a successful smoking of some black...

Fashion designer bags four months of community service for Cybercrime

  By Boye Ajayi A 32-year-old, Oyelakin Babatunde, a self-acclaimed fashion designer, has been sentenced to four months of intensive community service for...

Hubby knife stabs pregnant ex-wife after court dissolves marriage

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh For losing his marriage following a court ruling, a man, Bilya Abdullahi, stabbed his nine-month-old pregnant ex-wife, Shafa’atu...

Sexagenarian abducts, rapes teenage daughter of widow who declined his marriage proposal

    By Ajuma Edwina Ameh A 60-year-old man, Mgbechi Wekwea, has been accused of abducting and raping a 16-year-old girl at gunpoint...

My exploits: l have raped 50 women using charms, robbed over 100 houses, says bricklayer-robbery suspect

By Ajuma Edwina Ameh A 46-year-old bricklayer, Shina Adaramola, has confessed to robbing about 100 houses and raping at least 50 women. Adaramola,...

For defrauding American of N19.6m, Oteyowo Samuel, to spend 14 months behind bars

  By Boye Ajayi An internet fraudster, 32-year-old Oteyowo Akinkunmi Samuel, has been sent to jail for 14 months, according to a Federal...

Boyfriend and l took blood oath, aborted three pregnancies, says lover who sets boyfriend ablaze

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh The 18-year-old girl, Esther, who burnt her boyfriend, Chidinma Omah, to death in Makurdi, Benue State, has given...

55-year-old serial rapist nabbed for violating 7 teenage hawkers 

By Ajuma Edwina Ameh A 55-year-old man identified as Abdulhamid Sale, has been arrested for allegedly raping seven teenagers in Bukuru community in...

Jealous 18-year-old lover sets boyfriend ablaze for jilting her

  By Ajuma Edwina Ameh   A young man, Chidinma Omah, has died after he was set ablaze by his 18-year-old girlfriend, Esther, in...

Hunter becomes the hunted: Notorious Abuja kidnapper kidnapped by another kidnapper

By Ajuma Edwina Ameh Even among criminals they get masters and superiors. This played out in a case of an Abuja notorious kidnapper,...

Bartender bags 8 years for stealing his employer’s ATM card, withdrawing N1.07m from his account

  By Boye Ajayi   A 35-year-old bartender, Godwin Job, is to spend the next eight years in jail for stealing the ATM...

Greed, jealousy possessed me, pregnant woman who killed stepson confesses

    By Ajuma Edwina Ameh A pregnant woman, Musa Mariam, has been arrested by the Osun State Police Command, for allegedly poisoning...