Category: Crime and Judiciary

Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri granted a full pardon to farmer Sunday Jackson, convicted in 2021 of killing herder Ardo Buba Bawuro during a 2015 clash over crop-damaging cattle. Jackson claimed self-defense in the struggle, but courts upheld a death sentence until the Supreme Court affirmed it in March 2025; the governor acted on...

Search and recovery teams on Wednesday intensified their operations at the site of a plane crash that killed Libya’s military chief and other high-level officers, working to secure the area and locate the aircraft’s flight recorders after a night of heavy rain and fog, Turkey’s state-run news agency said. The private jet carrying Gen. Muhammad Ali Ahmad...

A California woman has been charged with murder after the remains of her missing 9-year-old daughter were found in Utah, authorities said Tuesday. Ashlee Buzzard, 40, was arrested Tuesday after bullet cartridges found near her daughter’s body were linked to a used cartridge case found in her home, said Santa Barbara County’s Sheriff-Coroner Bill Brown....

A prominent American Islamist journalist who has been critical of Syria’s new government and its nascent partnership with the United States has been detained by Syrian security forces, multiple reports stated. Bilal Abdul Kareem, a former stand-up comedian in the U.S. turned war journalist who has lived in Syria since 2012 and worked with many foreign media...

The Federal Government of Nigeria has officially labelled kidnappers and violent armed groups as terrorists. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, announced the development during the Federal Government’s end-of-year press briefing in Abuja on Monday. “Henceforth, any armed group or individual that kidnaps our children, attacks our farmers, and terrorizes our communities...

A judge declared a mistrial Monday in the corruption case of a former aide to New York governors after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked and couldn’t reach a verdict on charges she sold her influence to China and profited from a medical equipment scheme during the pandemic. The federal jury in Brooklyn was unable...

A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, the third such killing of a senior military officer in a year. Investigators said Ukraine may be behind the attack. Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces’ General Staff, died from his injuries, said Svetlana Petrenko, the spokesperson...

Three men will stand trial next year after a silver steward employed at the official residence of the French president was arrested this week for the theft of items of silverware and table service worth thousands of euros, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. The Élysée Palace’s head steward reported the disappearance, with the estimated loss...

The chair of Fenerbahce, one of Turkey’s leading sports clubs, was called to give testimony Saturday as part of an ongoing drug investigation involving high-profile entertainment and media figures. Sadettin Saran, who holds dual Turkish and U.S. citizenship, gave a statement in Istanbul after returning from abroad before being sent to a forensic medical facility...