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...
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South Africa Detains Seven Kenyans Processing US Refugee Claims on Tourist Visas.
South Africa authorities said to have arrested and would deport seven Kenyan nationals illegally working on processing refugee applications for the U.S. government. The Kenyans were working at the center alongside U.S. officials despite entering South Africa on tourist visas which did not allow them to work, the Home Affairs Ministry said in a statement....
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An MIT Professor Was Fatally Shot At His Home And Police Launched A Homicide Investigation
A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston, and authorities said Tuesday they had launched a homicide investigation. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot Monday night at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. He died at a local hospital on Tuesday, the Norfolk...
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Rapper Kay Flock Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison For Conviction In Shootings
Rapper Kay Flock was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for a series of shootings in his Bronx neighborhood, derailing a music career that was just taking off before his 2021 arrest. The 22-year-old rapper, whose real name is Kevin Perez, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman, who criticized Perez for...
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Doctor Who Helped Sell Ketamine To Actor Matthew Perry Before His Overdose Death Avoids Prison Time
A doctor who pleaded guilty in a scheme to supply ketamine to actor Matthew Perry before his overdose death was sentenced Tuesday to 8 months of home confinement. Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence that included 3 years of supervised release to 55-year-old Dr. Mark Chavez in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles. Before the...
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At least 37 killed in Flash Flood in Morrocco
At least 37 people were killed in flash floods triggered by torrential rains on Sunday in Morocco’s Atlantic coastal province of Safi, 330 kilometres (205 miles) south of the capital Rabat, Morocco’s state-run 2M TV reported on Monday. Fourteen people were receiving medical care at Mohammed V hospital in the town after the floods and...