Crime

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

Police arrest 4 over social media sex scam in Anambra

Anambra State Police Command on Thursday arrested four persons over alleged social media sex scam in the state. The suspects, two males and two female

Court remands 2 for raping14-year-old girl

Chief Magistrate Patricia Adetuyibi, sitting at A Family Court in Iyaganku, Ibadan, on Thursday remanded two men—James Thomas, 35, and Segun Adesina,

3 arrested with 20 mummified bodies in Edo

Operatives of the Edo Police Command have busted a suspected ritual shrine in Benin, arrested three suspects and recovered 20 mummified bodies. The co

Mob sets phone snatcher ablaze in Bayelsa

Angry youths have beaten and set ablaze a suspected armed robber who specialised in stealing phones and other valuables at gunpoint along Green Villa

Troops engage bandits, rescue nursing mother along Zaria-Kano Highway

Kaduna State Government said security agencies have rescued a nursing mother and two others around Ungwan Namama, along the Zaria-Kano road.  Samuel A