The House of Representatives has approved far-reaching amendments to the Electoral Act, introducing stiffer penalties for vote buying and selling, including a minimum of two years’ imprisonment or a N5 million fine, or both, alongside a 10-year ban from contesting elections. The House reached this resolution during the clause-by-clause consideration of the report of the...
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Romanian Court Sentences Wiz Khalifa To 9-Month Jail For Smoking Cannabis On Stage
A Romanian court has sentenced Wiz Khalifa to nine months in prison for smoking cannabis on stage. The American rapper, real name Thomaz Cameron Jibril, admitted to smoking a joint during his performance at the Beach, Please! festival last year in Costinesti. A Romanian appeals court overturned an earlier fine of 3,600 Romanian lei (£619;...
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German court jails man for drugging, raping and filming wife for years
A court in the German city of Aachen has sentenced a man to eight-and-a-half years in prison for repeatedly drugging and raping his wife, filming the acts and then posting them online. The man, named only as Fernando P in line with German privacy laws, was found guilty of aggravated rape, grievous bodily harm and...
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Teen Gang Members Plead Guilty To Acting As Hired Hitmen For Sinaloa Cartel
Two Los Angeles-area 15-year-old gang members pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and attempted murder charges, admitting they were acting as hired hitmen for Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, officials said. During two attempts to kill the cartel’s target, they wounded two people and killed one, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Each gang member expected to be paid...
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Russian Court Sentences British National to 13 Years for Fighting in Ukraine.
A Russia-controlled court in Ukraine’s Donetsk region has sentenced a British citizen to 13 years for fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine, Russia’s general prosecutor said on Thursday. The supreme court in Donetsk convicted Hayden Davies, who was taken prisoner in 2024, of participating as a mercenary in an armed conflict and sentenced him to...
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Drama in Lagos as Woman Fakes Own Kidnap, Extorts N2.5m From Husband
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old woman, identified simply as Misturah, for allegedly faking her own kidnapping and extorting the sum of N2.5 million from her husband in a staged abduction plot. The incident was first reported to the police on November 24, 2025, when a lawyer, Hamzat (surname withheld), alerted security...
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NDLEA Secures Court order to Detain 21 Foreign Nationals Linked to Cocaine Trafficking.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has secured an order of the Federal High Court in Lagos for the detention of a merchant vessel, its captain and 20 other crew members following the seizure of 25.5 kilogrammes of cocaine at the Apapa Seaport. According to a statement disclosed by the Director, Media and Advocacy,...
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Death Of Popular South African DJ Shot Dead In Johannesburg, Send Shockwaves Across The Nation
A popular South African radio and club DJ has been shot dead in the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, sending shockwaves across the nation grappling with entrenched crime. Warrick Stock, popularly known as DJ Warras, was gunned down in the city centre on Tuesday afternoon. Police said the 40-year-old media personality was approached by three suspects,...
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Harvard Morgue Manager Who Sold Body Parts Like ‘Baubles’ Gets 8-Year Prison Term
A former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue in Boston was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts “as if they were baubles.” Authorities said Cedric Lodge was at the center of a ghoulish scheme in which he shipped brains, skin, hands and faces to buyers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere after cadavers donated...
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Five Troops Killed as Suicide Attacker Targets Military Checkpoint in Borno.
A suicide bomber has reportedly killed five soldiers in the Pulka area of Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State. The incident reportedly occurred in the early hours of Sunday, according to security sources and local media reports. Thesuicide bomber, suspected to be a member of the Boko Haram terrorist group, was thought to have come...