Crime

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

48 hemp farms destroyed in Edo

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), said it arrested 374 drug traffickers and secured 58 convictions between June, 2021, and June, 2022,

Man remanded for raping housewife in Kwara

A magistrates’ court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, has ordered the remand of a 25-year-old man, Hassan Namusa, for raping a housewife in Kaiama LGA

2 ex-convicts rob in Oyo, arrested in Ogun 

Operatives of the Ogun Police Command have arrested two suspected armed robbers in Mowe, Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state. The suspect

4 to die by hanging in Ekiti for robbery, murder

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has sentenced four persons to death by hanging on a three-count of conspiracy, armed robbery and murder

Police arraign cultism ‘kingpin’

A suspected cultism kingpin, Ahmed Jimoh, has been arraigned before a magistrates’ court in Ilorin over offences bordering on cultism, possession of f