Crime

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

Yahoo boy jailed 5 years over N56m fraud

A Kogi State high court sitting in Lokoja has sentenced a 23-year-old man, Yusuf Salawu, from Okene LGA to five years imprisonment without option of f

Man arrested for stabbing neighbour to death in Lagos

A 45-year old man, Isaac Akpan John, has been arrested for stabbing his neighbour, identified simply as Godwin, to death in the Ajah area of Lagos. Th

20-year-old man nabbed for hiring gunmen to kill dad in Yobe

The police in Yobe State, on Wednesday, confirmed the arrest of a 20-year-old man, Yahaya Sai’du, who contracted gunmen to kill his father, Sai’du Oro

I’m yet to recover my son’s corpse – Mum of surveyor killed by kidnappers

The mother of the Assistant Chief Surveyor General of the Federation, Mr Alamu Samsideen Abayomi, who was shot dead by kidnappers despite them collect

Trader arraigned for stealing 6 bags of rice

A 40-year-old trader, Sani Zubairu, was on Wednesday arraigned in a magistrates’ court for stealing six bags of rice. Zubairu, who resides on Kano Roa