Category: Crime and Judiciary

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...

A former Republican lawmaker who questioned the integrity of Arizona’s elections and served as a leader for the conservative group Turning Point Action is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday for using nominating petitions that contained forged signatures in a bid to qualify for a 2024 primary election. Austin Smith, 30, pleaded guilty in mid-November to...

An Afghan national who plotted an Election Day terror attack will serve a 15-year prison sentence. Abdullah Haji Zada held a U.S. green card when he conspired on behalf of ISIS to receive two AK-47-style rifles and 500 rounds of ammo — knowing their intended use was a violent 2024 Election Day attack. ICE Homeland...

Troops of Operation Whirl Stroke have recovered a cache of assault rifles, ammunition and grenades in Takum Local Government Area of Taraba State, in a raid the military said delivered a major blow against criminal networks operating in the Benue–Taraba axis. In a statement posted by the Acting Media Information Officer HQ JTF Operation Whirl...

One of the first police officers to respond to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, goes on trial Monday on charges that he failed to protect children during the attack, when authorities waited more than an hour to confront the gunman. Adrian Gonzales, a former Uvalde schools officer, faces 29 counts of child abandonment...

Cuban government has said 32 of its citizens had been killed in the US attacks in Venezuela, including military or intelligence personnel, a rare public signal of Cuba’s importance to Venezuela and the Maduro government. According to Cuban state media, President Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba said the casualties were personnel from the country’s armed forces or its interior...