Crime

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

NDLEA arrests 48 suspects, convicts 5 in Edo

The Edo State Command of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested 48 Indian hemp dealers and secured the conviction of six others in O

Court remands woman for attacking 7-year-old girl with shovel

An Ogba magistrates’ court in Lagos State has ordered the remand of a 63-year-old woman, Toriola Amope, in a custodial centre for attacking a seven-ye

Man to die by hanging for killing kinsman

An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a 23-year-old man, Menim Jolly Udoaya, to death over the murder of Ben Clement Ben, his kin

Wife sues hubby for throwing her out

A businesswoman, Mrs Ote Agbo, on Friday, dragged her husband, Peter Ogah, before a customary court in Nyanya, Abuja, for throwing her out of the hous

Court jails robber terrorising Uniuyo 21 years

Twenty-five-year-old Emmanuel Sunday Okon, an indigene of Eyo Abasi in Oron LGA of Akwa Ibom State, notorious for armed robbery in the University of U