Category: Crime and Judiciary

owners in the Ijegun and Ikotun area of Lagos State have cried out to police authorities and state government over incessant cases of shooting, extortion, violent intimidation, harassment and other violent crimes allegedly perpetrated by a rogue police inspector Kolawole Olanrewaju Olopade, with AP No. 229055, popularly known as Olopade, attached to the CP Tactical...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has recaptured a top commander of the Ansaru terrorist group, Abdulazeez Obadaki, believed to have masterminded the August 7, 2012 attack on worshippers at a Deeper Life Bible Church near Okene, Kogi State..

A young Nigerian lady has cried out in distress over the arrest of her father by Department of State Service—DSS—according to the family, the SIM was legitimately bought and registered, however, Nigerian telecoms like MTN and Glo had reassigned it after it went dormant—previously used by alleged kidnappers. The Lady’s father went to visit her...

The death toll of Hong Kong’s high-rise apartment blaze rose to 159 on Wednesday, as authorities arrested six people on suspicion of deactivating some fire alarms during maintenance work at the housing complex. The youngest person who died in the fire was a 1-year-old infant, police said. The oldest was 97. Police said they have...

Former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and two others have been formally accused of procurement fraud and corruption, conflict of interest and violation of professional secrecy, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office said on Wednesday. The three individuals were detained on Tuesday as part of an EU fraud investigation and have now been released while the investigation...

A South African court has sentenced a Nigerian national, Victor Udoh, and his South African associate, Vuyisekha Mzwakhe, to a combined 37 years in prison after finding them guilty of drug-related offences and other violations. According to reports on Tuesday from Nova News, a South Africa–based online news outlet, that the 33-year-old Nigerian and his...

Days after the Akwa Ibom State Governor Umo Eno ordered the arrest of any masquerades found on the streets, the Akwa Ibom State Police Command apprehended David Effiong, who was spotted in full masquerade regalia disrupting public peace as he set to be charged to court accordingly “Any masquerade found on the streets of Akwa...

 A former California sheriff’s deputy suspected of fatally stabbing his 11-year-old son was shot and killed by law enforcement officers on Tuesday after he led them on a car chase along Interstate 5, authorities said. Police in Elk Grove, near Sacramento, responded around 8 a.m. to a call from a mother who said she was...

Authorities charged a woman and her husband with murder Tuesday in the death of her pregnant biological daughter whose body was found in a Michigan forest three weeks after she disappeared. Rebecca Park, 22, was in the final days of her pregnancy when she was last seen Nov. 3. The baby had been cut out...

An international rights group on Wednesday accused the paramilitary group fighting against Sudan’s military of committing war crimes during its attack earlier this year on the country’s largest displacement camp in the Darfur region. The Rapid Support Forces, which is at war with the Sudanese military, rampaged through the Zamzam camp in April as part of its siege of...