Crime

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

So-Safe arrests cultist over bike theft, recovers arm

Men of the So-Safe Corps in Ogun State have arrested a 32-year-old man said to specialise in snatching motorbikes and robbing traders. In a statement,

Strengthening community policing guarantees safer societies – IGP

The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Alkali Usman Baba, has said that for Nigeria to have safer societies it must embrace and strengthen the communit

Bandits free 3 victims, kill 1 after receiving N1m in Abuja

Bandits have freed three of four people abducted on September 22, 2022, on the Tekpeshe-Gurdi road and killed one after they collected N1 million rans

Court remands woman who bit NSCDC officer

A woman, Mrs Binta Dahiru, who bit off the flesh of a female officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) during a demolition exerc

Ex-convict arrested for ‘stealing’ hours after release from prison

The Police in Lagos State have arrested a 23-year-old ex-convict, Yakub Yusuf, for allegedly stealing valve covers of a fire truck under repairs. A st