Crime

An officer in the Nigeria Police Force has revealed why many of his colleagues take bribes and extort Nigerians at every opportunity.       According to security personnel who spoke to SaharaReporters about the matter, many police officers, particularly thousands recently recruited into the force, have been demoralized and …

A manhunt order has been passed by the Kano State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Usaini, for Ibrahim Musa, the 22-year-old who allegedly stabbed his biological mother, Hajara Mohammed, 50, to death.     The Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Kano State Command, SP Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa, made this known in a …

I was pushed out of a running vehicle by robbers on my way from work   i boarded a mini bus from UNTH Ituku Ozalla to Garriki Enugu. on entering the bus i sensed something wasn’t right & asked the driver to drop me, he refused but instead increased the …

    Four persons were today crushed to death in an accident, which occurred in ljoka area, in Akure, the Ondo state capital.   An eyewitness said that the victims were crushed to death by a yet-to-be-identified ‘yahoo boy’   According to him “The Yahoo boy was driving a Toyota …

A 20-year-old man, Philibus Ibrahim, who was arrested for strangling his pregnant girlfriend, Theresa Yakubu, to death in Kano, has confessed to the crime. Philibus, while being paraded, confessed to killing Theresa, who was pregnant for him, after all efforts to abort her pregnancy failed. The spokeswoman for the command, SP Abdullahi …

Motorcycles seized The police confirmed the release of 67 vehicles and motorcycles to the Members of Shi’ites (an Islamic Group).   Mr Mark Abu, Counsel for the plaintiffs, said this was an execution of the judgement of Kaduna State High Court which directed the police to release to his clients …

A Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a secondary school teacher, Peter Jacob, to life imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old pupil with special needs.   Justice Abiola Soladoye handed down the verdict, stating that the prosecution had efficiently proven the charge of defilement against the defendant …

The prosecutor, Abayomi Olowoyo-Richard, called five witnesses and tendered statements of the defendant, a knife, photographs of the corpse of the deceased and statements of the witnesses as exhibits.   But counsel for the defendant, Emmanuel Adedeji, who said the defendant was mentally imbalanced at the time of the incident, …

She was discovered in the wee hours of today, Friday the 24th day of march inside the Omambala, dead, floating above the river, it was raised various attentions and speculation as many said the mother is an unknown young girl, who gave birth to the baby, and dumped her into …

Young lady arrested in UK after travel agent she paid N15m scammed her with fake documents A Nigerian lady has landed in trouble in the United Kingdom after being scammed and deceived by a travel agent. The 20-year-old reportedly paid the agent about €20k (approximately N15 million) to process student …