•Armed Fulani herdsmen For the past few weeks, social media and conventional media have been awash with news of criminal activities including kidnapping, rape and even murder in some communities within Anambra State. Some of the communities mentioned in this new trend of crime are Ukwulu in the Dunukifia Council area of the state, Nando, [&hel...
The police in Abia have arrested a prime suspect in the murder of a 500-level student of Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU), Emmanuel Uche. This is even as the command has confirmed the missing of two persons in the state, reports Daily Sun. According to a statement, the suspect whose name was given as Emmanuel […]
An Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo today, Thursday, April 18, sentenced a 34-year-old businessman, Kola Adeyemi, and a battery charger, Wasiu Afolayan (36yrs) to death by hanging over armed robbery and murder. The prosecution counsel, Bewaji Adeniji from the Ministry of Justice, upon arraignment, dragged the two before Justice Ayo Oyeb...
The Borno State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of eight suspects in connection to the alleged murder of a Lecturer at the Department of Physical Health Education at the University of Maiduguri, Dr Kamar Abdulkadir. Abdulkadir was murdered in his office on campus on Sunday. The victim was found on Monday with several injuries […...
Nigeria-born activist Richard Taylor, who lost his son Damilola to murder in UK at only 10 years, is dead. He died yesterday following a protracted illness, his family announced. He was aged 75. Following the circumstances of Damilola’s death in November 2000, the father set up the Damilola Taylor Trust to campaign against knife crime [&hellip...
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, has convicted and sentenced five people to death by hanging or by lethal injection until they are confirmed dead. The verdict came following the prosecution and sentencing of the five convicts over the murder of the Omudioga Security Planning and Advisory Committee, OSPAC, Commander of Omudio...
•Troops The Nigerian Army High Command today expressed dismay over the resolve of the Okuama Community to embark on media propaganda on the unfortunate killing of troops of 181 Amphibious Battalion, saying their actions indicated the killings were communally orchestrated. The military personnel were killed while on a peaceful and mediatory mis...
•Self-proclaimed pastor, Paul Nthenge Mackenzie (C) A Kenyan court today charged the leader of a starvation cult and dozens of suspected accomplices with murder over the deaths of nearly 200 people in a forest near the Indian Ocean. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, who has already been charged with terrorism, manslaughter as well...
•Late Oba Aremu-Cole Fresh facts have emerged that the killers of the Olukoro of Koro in the Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, Oba Olusegun Aremu-Cole, perfected the murder plot in a pub, popularly called beer parlour, in the town. Oba Aremu-Cole, a retired senior military officer, was shot dead on Thursday night by […]
A Magistrate court sitting in Katsina has remanded in prison custody, the chairman of Batagarawa Local Government in Katsina State, Mr Bala Garba Tsanni over alleged murder, abduction and culpable homicide. The chairman and 11 others were arraigned before the court under sections 59, 249 and 189 of the Katsina penal code law, reports Nigerian ...