Crime/General

NDLEA Cracks Down On Crime in Kogi, Arrests 284, Seizes $2m Counterfeit Cash The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested 284 suspects, and seized 5,232,575kg of illicit drugs...

  Nigeria Secures 742 Terror Convictions, Acquits 888 Over Evidence The Federal Government has secured a total of 1,743 convictions from phase one to phase six of terrorist trials in...

Protest Erupts As India Investigates Alleged Rape, Murder of Doctor An Indian man on trial for raping and murdering a 31-year-old doctor has pleaded not guilty, his lawyer said Saturday,...

Taliban Kills 16 In Midnight Attack on Pakistan Army The Pakistani Taliban in an overnight raid on an army outpost near the border with Afghanistan on Saturday, killed 16 soldiers...

Court Grants Dele Farotimi ₦30m Bail Human rights lawyer, Dele Farotimi has been granted ₦30 million bail by a Magistrate court in Ekiti State.   Farotimi, who has been remanded...

Court Jails US-Based Nigerian, Accomplice 40 Years For Drug Trafficking A US court has found a Nigerian US-based man, Oluwole Adegboruwa, 54 and his accomplice, Enrique Isong, 49, guilty of...

Paul Pogba’s brother jailed for extortion A Paris court on Thursday sentenced a brother of France midfielder Paul Pogba to a three-year prison term, with two years suspended, after convicting...

Tragedy At Olori Naomi’s event: Child Dies, Several Injured An end-of-year celebration organized by Evangelist Silekunola Naomi Ogunwusi, the former wife of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi,...

US Offers $10 Million Bounty For Chinese Hacker The United States is reinforcing its move to apprehend and crack down on a notorious Chinese hacker. The government has offered a...

jay-Z Jay-Z, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs In Trouble over Alleged Rape of 13-year-Old Girl   Jay-Z, the star rapper and entrepreneur whose real name is Shawn Carter, was accused in a...