Category: Crime and Judiciary

Gunmen suspected to be bandits have reportedly attacked the National Park Service Office in Oloka, in the Oriire Local Government Area of Oyo State. The incident reportedly occurred around 9:00 p.m. on 6 January 2026, when armed assailants stormed the facility, targeting officers on duty. Oyo State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ayanlade Olayinka confirmed...

A judge granted a request Tuesday by the gunman in a 2001 shooting at a San Diego high school to be resentenced, potentially allowing him to be freed after 23 years in prison. Charles Williams, who was 15 at the time, pleaded guilty to killing two students and injuring 13 others after opening fire with...

Iran executed a man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad, state media reported Wednesday. The official IRNA news agency identified the man as Ali Ardestani, saying he relayed sensitive information to Mossad officers in return for financial rewards in the form of cryptocurrencies. The report said the man confessed to the spying charges and that...

Authorities have released security footage of a person of interest in the killing of an Ohio couple who were found shot to death in their home last week. Police in Columbus found Dr. Spencer Tepe, a 37-year-old dentist, and Monique Tepe, 39, with gunshot wounds on the second floor of their home at about 10...

Iran has executed a man it convicted of spying for Israel, the Iranian judiciary’s media outlet Mizan reported on Wednesday, naming the defendant as Ali Ardestani. Entangled in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, Iran has executed many people it has accused of having links with Israel’s intelligence service and facilitating its operations in the country. “The...

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Airport Police Command, has apprehended a 20-year-old suspected celebrity scammer who allegedly defrauded multiple victims in the United States of over one billion naira. The suspect was apprehended by operatives of the Anti-Fraud Unit of the Airport Police Command while attempting to travel out of Lagos. The arrest was confirmed...

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olukayode Adeolu Egbetokun, PhD, NPM, has ordered the deployment of the newly promoted Deputy Inspector-General of Police, DIG Mohammed Usaini Gumel and seventeen Commissioners of Police to strategic department, commands and formations across the nation. The deployments are intended to strengthen operational capacity, effective leadership, enhance public safety, and improve...

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olukayode Adeolu Egbetokun, PhD, NPM, has ordered the deployment of the newly promoted Deputy Inspector-General of Police, DIG Mohammed Usaini Gumel and seventeen Commissioners of Police to strategic department, commands and formations across the nation. The deployments are intended to strengthen operational capacity, effective leadership, enhance public safety, and improve...

The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a Port Harcourt-based pastor over an alleged plot to assassinate the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. The arrest comes amid an unresolved political confrontation between Wike and Rivers state Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, which has continued to heighten tensions across the state. According to...

On January 1, 2026, junior secondary student Timothy Daniel from Port Harcourt was shot in the head and killed along Akongntekong Road in Ukpum Ete, Ikot Abasi, after attending a crossover service at Mount Zion Full Gospel Church. According to Inibehe Effiong, a human rights lawyer who is seeking for justice, revealed that the deceased...