Crime

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

Nigerian woman on Italy’s most wanted list extradited

A Nigerian woman, Joy Jeff, who has been wanted in Italy since 2010 has been flown from Abuja back to Rome where she has been sentenced to 13 years in

8-month pregnant woman gang-raped in Abuja

An area court in Gwagwalada in the FCT on Tuesday ordered that two cattle herders who pleaded guilty to abducting and raping a woman be remanded in a

Man captured on CCTV stealing recharge cards, cash, jailed 2 years

An Ojo magistrates’ court in Lagos on Tuesday sentenced a 28-year-old man, Okanchiku Nwafor, to two years in prison for stealing. The Magistrate, Mr L

Jigawa trader robbed, found unconscious

  Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Jigawa State have discovered an unconscious man suspected to have been du

45-year-old PWD recounts how he went into smuggling

A 45-year-old physically challenged man, Faleru Olusegun, has recounted why he decided to go into the smuggling of rice and poultry products. The susp