Category: Crime and Judiciary

In a mop up exercise operation to end the activities of drug peddling, Nigerian Taskforce invaded 31 Rd and the adjoining streets of Wole Omo Osho, Bless Jah, Adenle Crescent and Okunola Rd in Mosan-Okunola LCDA in Alimosho LGA.The operation started around 6p.m on Thursday 28th November, 2024, leading to the arrest of 43 suspected...

Nigerian Investigative Journalist, Feyisayo Soyombo who was arrested and detained by the Nigerian Army ‘in linkage with oil bunkering in Port Harcourt,’ has regained freedom.Recall Soyombo was allegedly arrested over his investigation into the Nigerian Customs activities at the Border where he exposed a syndicate that illegally moved 130,000 bags of rice into country from...

Authorities reported that a West Virginia sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a person on Friday who fired at him as he was responding to a 911 call.The individual who died wasn’t immediately identified by the Raleigh County Sheriff’s Office, which released a statement about the shooting on Facebook. It said officials were notifying next of...

The Nigerian Army in a statement on its X account has announced that it arrested and detained Fisayo Soyombo an investigative journalist in linkage with oil bunkering in Port Harcourt as against the narrative circulating online.The Nigerian Journalist has been in the custody of the Nigerian Army Headquarters, 6 Division, Port Harcourt since on Tuesday...

James Craig, a dentist accused of killing his wife by poisoning her protein shakes has been charged with trying to get a fellow jail inmate to kill a detective investigating the murder case.Prosecutors filed two new charges against Craig last week — solicitation to commit murder as well as solicitation to commit perjury.The charging document does not...

A yet to be identified serving National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member serving Government Day Junior Secondary School, Kulende, Ilorin, Kwara State was allegedly beaten by a teaching staff of the school.It was reported that the married female corps member had visited the school to collect her clearance letter and was accused of “not greeting...

“Bro, I can’t wait for my first dead body,” wrote an 11-year-old boy on Instagram in Sweden, where gangs recruit children too young to be prosecuted as contract killers on chat apps.“Stay motivated, it’ll come,” answered his 19-year-old contact.He went on to offer the child 150,000 kronor ($13,680) to carry out a murder, as well...

China on Thursday disclosed a top-ranking military official had been suspended and was under investigation for “serious violations of discipline,” and denied reports Defense Minister Dong Jun was being investigated for corruption.The suspended officer, Admiral Miao Hua, served on the ruling Central Military Commission, China’s highest-level military body, and was stationed in the coastal province of Fujian when...

The eldest son of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit was released from custody on Wednesday after his arrest last week on rape allegations, his lawyer said.Marius Borg Høiby, 27, is the stepson of the heir to the Norwegian throne, Crown Prince Haakon, and the son of Mette-Marit from a previous relationship. He has no royal title...

The Nigerian Army in a press release had revealed that a special unit located in Borno state was caught unaware by terrorists on Monday and the army returned fire for fire thereby incapacitating the terrorists.However the army recorded three lost while some of the terrorists fled the scene with gunshot wound, the acting chief of...