Crime

Latest crime news, stories and headlines in Nigeria and across the world.

Man breaks into Ekiti monarch’s palace, steals bags of rice

A 22-year-old man, Adebanji Elijah, was on Tuesday, arraigned before an Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court over alleged stealing and willful damage of a tra

Court jails nursing mother 6 years for drug trafficking

A Lagos Federal High Court has convicted and sentenced a nursing mother, Adeoye Oluwakemi Fatimoh, to six years in prison for trafficking in banned su

Police order investigation of Uber driver shooting in Abuja

The FCT police commissioner, CP Sadiq I. Abubakar, has ordered a preliminary investigation into the shooting of an Uber driver, identified as Afam, by

Controversy as vigilantes injure bride’s eye during wedding party

A bride, Khadija Abdullahi, has allegedly been wounded in her eye by vigilantes at Dantamashe town, Ungogo LGA of Kano State during her wedding party.

1 arrested as customs intercepts military, police hardware at Lagos airport

Authority in charge of the Murtala Mohammed Airport (MIA) Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, on Tuesday, said it intercepted military and police