Crime

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

Cyberscam: Hushpuppi’s ally, Woodberry jailed 8 years in US

A United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago has sentenced Nigerian Olalekan Ponle, also known as Woodberry, to eig

NAFDAC vows to prosecute drug hawkers

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has vowed to prosecute drug hawkers nationwide, saying such drugs are danger

Man bags 3 years jail for beating mum

An Ikeja magistrates’ court on Tuesday sentenced a 28-year-old man, Victor Chinedu, to three years in prison for beating his mother and destroying her

Customs intercepts 37 trailers of rice, arrests 7 in Ogun

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun Area 1 Command, intercepted 37 trailers loaded with foreign rice in different parts of Ogun State between Janu

Man killed for ‘stealing’ bread in Bayelsa

The police in Bayelsa State have arrested three suspects in connection with a mob action that led to the death of a 32-year-old man, Ebimotimi Freebor