Amended fresh charge filed against IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu

An amended seven-count charge has been filed by the federal government against the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, before a Federal High Court in Abuja. The fresh charge bothers on treasonable felony and terrorism following the pending charges he was facing since 2016 and it was also learnt that the court […]

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Owo Prince arraigned in Ibadan over N35.5m fraud

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan Zonal Command, Oyo State, Nigeria, on Tuesday October 12, arraigned one Toluwalade John Olateru Olagbegi before Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan on one count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretense to the tune of Thirty-Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand […]

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Man gets double life imprisonment for using cobra to kill his wife

The Kollam Additional Sessions Court in Kerala, India on Wednesday, imposed a double life sentence on Sooraj S Kumar for killing his wife using a cobra. Sooraj had killed his 25-year-old wife, Uthra on May 7, 2020, by letting a cobra bite her in her sleep. The crime became known widely known as the ‘Uthra murder case’ and […]

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Chidinma Ojukwu pleads not guilty in the killing of Ataga, Super TV boss

21-year-old Chidinma Ojukwu, University student and the prime suspect in the killing of Super TV boss, Uwaifo Ataga, has pleaded not guilty to the murder charge filed against her by the Lagos state government. The Mass Communication student pleaded not guilty when she appeared before Justice Yetunde Adesanya of the Lagos state high court sitting in […]

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Young nanny brutally attacks employer with machete after killing her 7-year-old son

Police operatives have arrested a young nanny who brutally attacked her employer’s family and killed their 7-year-old son in Marigat, Baringo County, Kenya. The suspect, Lydiah Jelagat Kipng’etich, 24, also seriously injured the boy’s mother during the attack on the night of September 24, 2021. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in a statement on […]

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Former presidential aide, Obono-Obla charged to court for certificate forgery

Nigeria’s Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned a former head of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Mr Okoi Obono-Obla, for certificate forgery. The two charges filed at the Jos Judicial Division of the High Court of Plateau State, stated the former SPIP head presented […]

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Pastor bags life imprisonment for sodomizing pupils (Photos)

The International Crimes Division of the High Court (ICD) in Uganda on Friday, October 8, sentenced a pastor to life imprisonment after he was convicted of six counts of aggravated trafficking in children and six counts of aggravated defilement. Mr Didas Mpagi, alias Bakulu, who was the headmaster of Real Infant Primary School in Wakiso […]

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Maina’s son, Faisal bags 14-years imprisonment for money laundering

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria, presided over by Justice Okon Abang, on Thursday, convicted and sentenced the son of former Chairman of the Pension Reform Taskforce Team (PRTT), Faisal Maina, to 14 years imprisonment. Faisal, son of Abdulrasheed Maina, was found guilty on three counts of money laundering filed against him by […]

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Husband allegedly beheaded by his young wife in Ghana

27-year-old woman, Rachel Tetteh has allegedly beheaded her husband in Eastern Region, Ghana. The incident happened at Tei Glover, a farming Community near Akyem Bosuso in the Fanteakwa South District on Sunday, October 3, 2021. The suspect was arrested by police while the headless body of her husband, Lartey Daniel, 35, has been deposited at […]

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Nigerian actor arrested for peddling drugs in India

The police in India have arrested a Nigerian actor, Chekwume Malvin, on charges of drug peddling and seized hashish oil worth Rs 7.5 lakh. Chekwume, 45, who hails from Delta state in Nigeria, was arrested near the HBR Layout BDA Complex, where he had allegedly gone to sell drugs. According to Indian newspapers, Chekwume who features […]

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Commercial sex worker gets 4 years jail for biting customer’s tongue during sex in Nigeria

An Upper Area Court in Makurdi, Benue State, has sentenced a commercial sex worker, Dooshima Anems, to four years imprisonment for biting customer’s tongue during sex. The police charged Anems with assault and causing grievous harm. The Magistrate, Ms Rose Iyorshe, on Thursday, September 30, sentenced Anems after she pleaded guilty and told the court that […]

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Two Nigerian women sentenced to prison in Ireland for human trafficking

Two Nigerian women who became the first people in Ireland to be convicted of human trafficking for the prostitution ring they ran, have received jail sentences of five years and eight months and five years and one month. Alicia Edosa (45) and Edith Enoghaghase (31) were each found guilty of two counts of trafficking women around Ireland […]

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Man gets 25 years imprisonment for defiling one year old toddler

An Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court, on Tuesday sentenced 38-year old man, Seun Aina to 25 years imprisonment for defiling a 15-month-old toddler. The court presided over by Justice Abiola Soladoye sentenced Aina after finding him guilty of defilement contrary to the provisions of Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State […]

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Policeman who allegedly shot teenage girl dead in Lagos remanded in prison custody

A Chief Magistrate court sitting in Yaba, Lagos state, has remanded the dismissed Police Sergeant, Samuel Philips in prison custody over the alleged shooting dead of a teenage girl at her home in the Ijeshatedo area of Lagos state on September 10. Phillips, 30, was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Adeola Adedayo by the police on […]

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Man gets 28 years imprisonment for killing female lawyer in Lagos hotel room

An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday, September 21, sentenced a 23-year-old chef, Joshua Usulor, to 28 years imprisonment for killing a lawyer, Mrs Feyisayo Obot. Usulor brutally murdered the 34-year-old mother of two on January 26, 2019, at the Citiheights Hotel, Opebi, Lagos State, where both of them lodged in different rooms. Obot, an employee of […]

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Two days after she was sentenced to life imprisonment, Nigerian prophetess, dies

A prophetess, Edna Lovely Worleru, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment last week Thursday, September 16, by a High Court in Rivers State, Nigeria, has died. Just two days after her sentence began, she died. It was reported last week that Worleru, a prophetess with a church in Rumuche community in Emohua Local […]

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Female University student being killed for ritual by suspected yahoo boyfriend rescued (Graphic photos)

A man suspected to be a ‘Yahoo boy’ has been arrested by the police in Bayelsa State over alleged failed attempt to use his girlfriend for money rituals. It was gathered that the suspect was caught attempting to behead the victim along SETRACO Road, Amassoma/Ogobiri axis of the state on Tuesday morning, September 21. The girl, said to be […]

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Woman who allegedly hired hitmen that killed her husband and mother-in-law, arrested

A woman and five others have been arrested in connection with the murder of her husband and mother-in-law in Elliotdale, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The 36-year-old woman, Nophelo Gquthani, and her accomplices appeared in the Elliotdale Magistrate Court on Monday, September 13. Police spokesperson, Captain Siphokazi Mawisa, who confirmed the incident in a statement on […]

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Nigerian woman allegedly shot dead by her Italian husband for filing for divorce (Photos)

31-year-old Nigerian woman, Amenze Rita, has allegedly been shot dead by her husband in Italy. Amenze was killed in front of her colleagues in the parking lot of Mf Mushroom, a company where she worked on Friday morning, September 10, in Noventa Vicentina. It was gathered that the suspect, Pierangelo Pellizzar, 61, laid an ambush for the deeased at […]

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