Category: Crime
Court sentences killer of ex-Ondo deputy gov’s daughter to death
An Ondo state High Court sitting in Akure has sentenced Seidu Adeyemi to die by hanging for killing Khadijat Oluboyo, daughter of former deputy governor of Ondo State....
EFCC arrests six `Yahoo’ boys, recovers exotic cars
The operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan Zonal Office have arrested six `Yahoo’ boys and recovered five different models of exotic...
Three Burundi teenage girls jailed for defacing portrait of president
Three teenage schoolgirls in Burundi have been sent to prison to await trial for scribbling on a picture of President Pierre Nkurunziza in textbooks. The girls,...
Anxiety mounts over aged woman held in Ogun prison over son’s offence
Anxiety is mounting among neighbours and relations of an ailing 75-year-old woman, Elizabeth Otubambo, held in prison custody since last month. Otubambo has been...
Alleged serial killer, four others arrested in Lagos
Policemen of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested an alleged serial killer, Ibrahim Abdullahi a.k.a Tiny and four others shortly after midnight at his Ijegun-Egba...
Stray bullet kills teenager in Ikorodu, injured Taskforce policeman dies
Sgt. Damilola Adeoye, a police operative attached to Lagos State Taskforce on Environment, who was injured by miscreants while on duty at Mike 12, is dead. Spokesman for...
Welder gets one year imprisonment for theft
An Upper Area Court 1 sitting in Kasuwan Nama, in Jos on Friday sentenced a 23-year-old Welder, Mohammed Awwalu, to one year imprisonment for conspiracy, shop breaking...
Pandemonium in Lagos, as masked gunmen kill Globacom staff
There was pandemonium on Thursday in Lagos when masked gunmen shot dead a staff of Globacom Nigeria identified Alemanni Adaramola in Ojo area of Lagos State....
Court remands vagrant for stealing in church, pending sentencing
An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday, ordered that a vagrant, Yinka Oluwafeyi, who pleaded guilty to stealing cell phone in a church, be remanded in...
Court remands father for allegedly defiling 16-year-old daughter
A Yaba Chief magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Wednesday ordered that a 50-year-old man, Gafar Anifowose, accused of allegedly defiling his 16-year-old daughter, be...
