Category Archives: Crime

Nigeria Customs Confiscate Imported Weapons

September 12 Crime, Politics 36 comments

Customs authorities in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, have confiscated a container carrying more than 1,000 rifles, said to have been illegally imported from Turkey. Customs officer Hamid Ali said the discove...

Public Disgrace!

May 10 Crime, Politics 1 comment

.Woman Caught After Stealing Another Woman’s Bag A woman has been left in shame and her face all over the internet after she was caught stealing another woman’s bag inside a shop. The woman, according to a po...

Tenant Beats His Landlord To Death Over Electricity Bill

March 15 Crime, Politics 11 comments

.Photo for illustration purposes only. – A middle-aged man identified as Tope Akideji, has been arrested by the Ondo State Police Command for allegedly beating his 75-year-old landlord, Pa. Kayode Osunkalu to death...

Female Robbery Gang Nabbed In Ghana

March 14 Crime, Politics 1 comment

A notorious armed robbery gang made up only of female members has been smashed and paraded by the police in Kumasi, Ghana. The suspects identified as Agnes Darkoaa, alias Maame Yaa and Last Killer, Ernestina Amponsah a.k...

N150m Worth Of Cannabis Intercepted By Nigeria Customs

February 13 Crime 3 comments

In a shocking interception which surpassed every seizure ever made by the Badagry command of the Nigeria Customs Service on Thursday intercepted cannabis worth N150 million and arrested a suspect. According to a report o...

Nigerian Woman Gets Life Imprisonment For Drug Trafficking In Tanzania...

January 29 Crime, Politics 3 comments

A Nigerian woman, Edigin Vivian, was Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment in Tanzania after being found guilty of trafficking drugs worth Sh39.8 million (N3.6m in Naira). Justice Aishiel Sumari convicted Vivian of tra...

Nigerian Player Arrested For Cocaine Trafficking In India

January 26 Crime, Football 1 comment

A 28-year-old professional football player from Nigeria has been arrested on drug trafficking charges with 105 grams of fine quality cocaine, Indian police have reported. Izu Chukwu Ojobo, who had played in the Goa Leagu...

15 Killed, Others Injured In Damaturu Bombings

October 7 Crime, Politics 28 comments

Two women suicide bombers killed 15 people, including themselves, early Wednesday at a mosque in the compound of a government workers’ housing estate and around a nearby location. The attack happened around 6 a.m. when m...

Nigerian Pastor Rapes Girl After Deliverance Prayer

September 12 Crime, Politics 35 comments

One purported pastor, Abraham Akpan, was said to have raped a 16-year-old girl brought to his church for deliverance prayers in Nigeria. The 40-year-old Pastor committed the crime at an unnamed church at 39, Hassan Ogunm...

21-Year Old Remanded In Prison For Alleged Stealing

August 19 Crime, Politics 1 comment

By Sandra Nwokocha – An Ikeja Magistrate Court has Remanded a 21-year old Nigerian, Chimezie Osakwe, on a two-count charge after the Police arraigned him for alleged stealing, eyeonthenews.com reports. The prosecut...

Four Docked For Carrying Live Ammunition

August 18 Crime, Politics 57 comments

By Sandra Nwokocha – Four Men have been brought before an Ikeja Magistrate court, Lagos state, southeast Nigeria on a 3 count charge, bordering on Conspiracy, Unlawful Possession Of Fire Arms, having a Gun without ...

How Police Brutalise Common Man In Nigeria

August 4 Crime, Politics 4 comments

The Nigerian government claims the country’s Police is working hard to safeguard lives and properties, but the above disturbing image of a Policeman dragging a man he arrested along the tarred road proves otherwise...

Man Docked For Rapeing Mad Woman

July 11 Crime 1 comment

A 33-year-old man named Itodo Stephen stands a clear chance of being sent to jail if found guilty of allegation of rape. He has been charged to court for reportedly having an indecent assault and unlawful carnal knowledg...

Pastor, 8 Others Killed In Church Shooting

June 18 Crime, World 1 comment

Nine people including a Church Pastor, Clementa Pinckney have died in a shooting at a historic African-American Church in Charleston in the US state of South Carolina. City Police Chief Gregory Mullen said eight of the v...

ICPC Drills Okiro Over Fraud Allegations

June 6 Crime, Politics 1 comment

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), on Thursday, drilled a former Inspector General of Police and the Chairman, Police Service Commission (PSC), Mike Okiro over fraud related a...

Heavy Explosions Kill Four In Maiduguri

May 30 Crime 1 comment

At least four persons were killed as heavy explosions from Rocket Propelled Launchers and grenade with sporadic gunfire rocked the city of Maiduguri, capital of Borno State capital. It was gathered that several other per...

IG Steps Up Fight Against Cultism In Edo State

May 15 Crime 29 comments

Just a day after his confirmation as the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase has gotten to work without looking back. The new IG has dispatched a special crack squad to Edo to tackle the rising tides of cultism, k...