Crime

A 47-year-old man, Ita Okon has been sentenced to life imprisonment for r@ping an 8-year-old girl in Calabar, Cross River State.  Okon was convicted and sentenced on Tuesday, October 8,…

A 36-year-old man, identified as RA, has been arrested in Indonesia for allegedly selling his 11-month-old baby on Facebook without his wife's knowledge to fund his online gambling…

An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday ordered a man, Nonso Ekeocha, to undergo 50 hours community service for internet love scam. The presiding judge, Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe,…

Human rights lawyer Deji Adeyanju has confirmed that Nigerian musician Speed Darlington is currently in police custody in Abuja. According to Adeyanju, the artist was arrested after a…

A Jimeta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Yola, Adamawa State on Tuesday ordered that a couple Abubakar Yuguda and Fatima Abubakar should be remanded for allegedly maltreating two minors. …

A Makurdi Magistrate’s Court, on Tuesday, remanded two persons: Terfa Moji and Jiminbee Chenge, over alleged criminal conspiracy, armed robbery and act of terrorism. The Magistrate, Mrs…

A man from Coleen Bawn, Zimbabwe, has been killed following a violent confrontation over a girlfriend, police have confirmed. The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has arrested three…

A father of nine identified simply as Charles, has committed su!cide over an alleged marital dispute in the Jeddo community in Okpe Local Government Area of Delta State. According…

Hajiya Binta Bello, Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), has called for stricter penalties for rape to serve as a deterrent. …

South African police have arrested three suspects in connection with the brutal massacre of 18 relatives in the Eastern Cape town of Lusikisiki last week. The arrests followed an…