Category: Crime and Judiciary

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...

For the nearly three decades that he was behind bars, Michael Sullivan’s mother and four siblings died, his girlfriend moved on with her life and he was badly beaten in several prison attacks.All for a murder he long insisted he never committed.Earlier this month, the 64-year-old Sullivan got a degree of justice when a Massachusetts...

In a proactive effort to enhance security in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) during the upcoming months of celebration, police detectives from the Dei-Dei ‘B’ Division, under the directive of Commissioner of Police FCT, CP Olatunji Disu, psc, conducted a raid on a criminal hideout at the Timber Market, Dei-Dei, on November 21, 2024. The...

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party suspended street protests demanding his release from jail after a sweeping midnight raid by security forces in the capital, Islamabad, in which hundreds of people were arrested, local media reported Wednesday.Broadcaster Geo News, citing a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) statement, said the party had announced a “temporary suspension” of the protest, in which at least...

According to local media reports, eight employees of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained for questioning by local authorities investigating the deaths of six foreign tourists from suspected methanol poisoning.Two Australian teenagers, two Danish women, an American man and a British woman have been confirmed dead by their governments.They are thought to have died after drinking...

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor asked judges on Wednesday to issue an arrest warrant for the head of Myanmar’s military regime for crimes committed against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.The request comes days after a powerful rebel group seized a key trading town in northeastern Myanmar on the Chinese border, taking control of a lucrative rare earth mining hub in another...