Crime

The Lagos state Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) officials have retrieved a day-old baby from a dumpster while evacuating waste in a street in Ikoyi, Lagos. The Police Public Relations Officers (PPRO) in Lagos State, SP Benjamin…

The Nigerian Correctional Service, (NCoS), Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), command, has completed the registration of 53 inmates of both the Kuje and Suleja custodial centres in preparation for the November/December West Africa…

An Osogbo Magistrate Court has remanded 37-year-old Abiodun Babatunde in Ilesa correctional centre for the alleged sexual assault of a 4-year-old girl. The police had on Wednesday arraigned the suspect on a four-count charge of unlawful…

The head of the Office of the Ukrainian Presidency has called for sweeping American and European sanctions targeting Moscow after an official report drawn up by an international working group concluded Russia should now be declared a “state…

India banned an Islamist group and its affiliates for five years on Wednesday over alleged terrorism links, after a nationwide crackdown that saw hundreds of the organisation’s members arrested. A government notice said the Popular Front…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has set ablaze 1.8 tonnes of cocaine recovered last week from a warehouse in Ikorodu area of Lagos State. The Chairman/Chief Executive of the anti-narcotics agency, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa…

A United States District Court in Tacoma on Monday sentenced Abidemi Rufai, a former senior special assistant to the Ogun State governor Dapo Abiodun, to five years in prison for wire fraud. Rufai, a 45-year-old, was arrested at JFK…

A Family Court in Iyaganku, Ibadan on Monday ordered that a 20-year-old apprentice, Tosin Kolade, be remanded in a correction centre for alleged defilement and murder of a 17-year-old girl. The police charged Kolade with three counts of…

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has said that major onslaught against terrorists by troops in the frontline have led to the death of no fewer than 38 Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in the dreaded Sambisa Forest in…

A yet-to-be-identified woman has been involved in a fatal motor accident on Sunday evening in Calabar, Cross River State while allegedly chasing her husband on the highway. The lady was said to have died minutes after being rushed to the…