•The suspects The Kebbi State Police Command says it has arrested seven suspected bandits in intelligence-led operations targeting criminal networks in the Soda Forest axis and adjoining border communities of Bagudo Local Government Area. According to the statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bashir Usman, the suspects were arre...
A United Kingdom court has remanded a 32-year-old man, Maxwell Oguanaya, in custody over the alleged murder of a 41-year-old Nigerian, Taiwo Ekerin, following an assault in Lewisham, London. The Metropolitan Police disclosed this in a statement obtained by our correspondent yesterday. The police noted that Oguanaya was charged with murder afte...
•Keir Starmer and Elon Musk UK Leader Keir Starmer accused US tech tycoon Elon Musk today of “trying to whip up division” in Britain following anger over the police handling of the murder of a white student by a Sikh man. The case of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, who was put in handcuffs by police as […]
A High Court sitting in Anambra State and presided over by Justice Lauretta Oyeka has sentenced a commercial tricycle rider, Makua Ezike, to death by hanging after finding him guilty of murdering one Jude Onwuegbuchunam, an indigene of Umuoji in Idemili North Local Government Area of the state. According to the charge sheet obtained by [&helli...
Police in Imo State have arrested two individuals in connection with the death of a 21-year-old nursing student, even as unease and sorrow deepen in the Umulogho community, Obowo Local Government Area, over the incident. Wendy Achumba, a post-basic midwifery student at Our Lady of Mercy Nursing School, Obowo, was reportedly discovered lifeless...
•MC Oluomo The President of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Mr. Musiliu Ayinde Akinsanya (aka MC Oluomo), has passionately appealed to the Police authorities to discreetly investigate an allegation of murder levelled against him by one Siyan Akinsanya. Siyan Akinsanya had in a viral video on Facebook alleged witnessing MC...
Nigerian students, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Joint Campus Council, Lagos State, have called on President Bola Tinubu to constitute a presidential panel of inquiry into the killing of Abel Gershon, a 300-level Building student of the University of Jos who died after being injured in the Palm Sunday attack...
A Nigerian national, Chukwuemeka Ahanonu, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a 56-year-old woman, Nila Patel, in Leicester, United Kingdom. Ahanonu, 24, was found guilty by a jury at Leicester Crown Court on Monday and sentenced on Tuesday for the attack, which occurred on June 24, 2025, along Infirmary Road. According [...
The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a 21-year-old man, Alabi Anthony, for allegedly raping and killing an elderly woman, Olaseni Veronica, in Iboropa community, Akoko North-East Local Government Area. The command’s spokesperson, DSP Abayomi Jimoh, said the suspect was apprehended following intelligence that led to the tracking of the vi...
An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has sentenced one Olatide Temitope Emmanuel to death by hanging on a two-count charge bordering on murder and impersonation. The 48-year-old convict was arraigned before Justice Jubril Aladejana on 11/12/2025 on a two-count charge bordering on murder and impersonation, reports Vanguard. The charge...

