Crime

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

Varsity, poly students jailed 3yrs for operating gambling house

A Chief Magistrate Court 1 sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State, has sentenced a 28-year-old student of the University of Maiduguri, Lucky Sani and Gulak

Teacher to spend 2 years in jail for stealing €20, phone

A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Mapo, Ibadan, has sentenced a teacher, Adebayo Osayemi, to two years in prison for stealing his employer’s phone

Man bags life sentence for raping minor

A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Kagara, Rafi LGA of Niger State, has sentenced a 23-year -old Bello Hassan to life imprisonment for raping a 10-ye

NDLEA intercepts UK-bound illicit drug consignment at Lagos airport, arrests 2

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a consignment of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, concealed in du

…another remanded over defilement of wife’s niece

A 33-year-old man, Happiness Opeyemi, has been remanded at the Agodi Correctional Centre over the alleged defilement of his wife’s 10-year-old niece.