Unemployed man jailed for stealing refrigerator parts
An Area Court in Jos on Friday sentenced a 20-year-old unemployed man, Bulus Sunday, to one-year imprisonment without an option of a fine for...
Zambia’s ex-first lady arrested for money laundering
Zambia’s former first lady, Esther Lungu, has been arrested on money laundering charges, her lawyer said Friday, days after her husband claimed he was...
Court remands 37-year-old father for allegedly raping own daughter
By Vivian Ibobo
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a 37-year-old man, Sunday Stephen, in Kirikiri Correctional Service for allegedly raping his 16-year-old...
Police arrest 20-year-old for killing hunter in Ogun
A 20-year-old man, identified as Faisal Audu, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command in connection with the alleged murder of a...
Police nab man for impersonating DSP
The Sokoto State Police Command has arrested a 27-year-old man, Abdulnasir Bello, for impersonating the state Deputy Superintendent of Police to defraud people.
Parading suspects...
Lagos police arrest 18-year-old for stealing LED lights on third mainland bridge
Operatives of the Lagos Rapid Response Squad on Friday arrested a suspected vandal, Mubarak Abdullahi (18), around 10am for removing LED road stud lights...
Police arrest five hoodlums over unrest in Ile-Ife, Ilesha
As a result of the unrest in Ilesha, Ogun State, where five people were reportedly killed by cultists and incessant robbery cases, the police...
Police probe Yobe cleric for allegedly impregnating friend’s wife
The Yobe State Police Command has begun the probe into the case of a self-proclaimed marabout, Auwalu Haruna, arrested for allegedly abducting and impregnating...
Middle-aged allegedly murders friend with gas cylinder
A middle-aged man identified as Adebayo Peter took the life of his friend, known as Lekan, at the Ireakari-Oloko junction area in Akure South...
Chadian Boko Haram drug supplier, trans-border trafficker nabbed in Taraba, Yobe
A 35-year-old Chadian who sells narcotics to insurgents was arrested with assorted drugs by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)...
Inspector kills Sergeant after arresting cultist in Edo, flees
A police Inspector, Jonathan Okouromi, was said to have shot dead one Sergeant Abosele Akhere, both of the Edo State Police Command.
PUNCH Metro learnt...
N14m Fraud: Ex Federal Permanent Secretary Bags Five-year Jail Term
A Lagos State Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, the capital, on Thursday convicted and sentenced a former Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry...
Policemen ‘kidnapped’ me, collected N1m for my release, man alleges
One Mr. Samuel Soyemi has recounted how some men who claimed to be police officers from Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos State invaded his house...
Ilorin courts jail six for ‘yahoo yahoo’
The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, secured the conviction of six persons charged for offences bordering...
Pastor Remanded In Prison Custody For Indecent Assault
A pastor, David Daniel, has been remanded in prison custody for alleged indecent assault.
According to the spokesperson for the police in Lagos, Bala Elkana, Daniel...
Sen Adeola’s aide, Sanni shot 3 times, stabbed in the chest — suspected killers...
Three self-confessed killers of late Adeniyi Sanni, the senior aide to the Senator representing Ogun West in the National Assembly, Solomon Adeola, have been...
Man who dismembered wife’s body into 200 pieces sentenced to life in prison
A man, Nicholas Metson, 28, who dismembered his wife’s body into over 200 pieces and then enlisted a friend to help dispose of her...
Land grabbers’ violent return to Lagos leaves trail of blood, deaths
The menace of land grabbing is one that has eaten deep into the fabric of Lagos society for several years, yet with no end...
Suspected tricycle snatcher nabbed for stabbing operator
A 22 year old man, Ikwumelu Emmanuel, was on Saturday arrested for allegedly stabbing a commercial tricyclist in Abatete, Idemili North Local Government Area...
Amotekun arrests suspected transformer cable thief
Osun Amotekun Corps on Tuesday said it arrested a 24-year old man for alledgedly stealing electric transformer cables in Iwaro Community in Ilesa, Osun...