Category: Crime and Judiciary

The disappearance of a New Zealand father with his children in a forest for several years before he was discovered and shot dead by the police has prompted the government to launch a major inquiry into how officials handled the case. The public inquiry — which is a formal, independent investigation of matters of significant...

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau appeared on state television Wednesday saying they have seized power in the country, following reports of gunshots near the presidential palace, three days after national elections. The president told French media he had been deposed and arrested. It is the latest of several coups in recent years in West Africa. “The High Military Command for...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk in a post said that people who falsely call someone a “Nazi” or “fascist” should be charged with Incitement to Murder, he called out against false labelling quoting reports linking such terms to recent attacks. These included the September 10 sniper killing of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, where the...

The Diocese of Kaduna has confirmed the death of Anglican Priest Venerable Edwin Achi, from Ebenezer Anglican Church, Nigeria, who was kidnapped along his wife Sarah, and their daughter from their home in Nissi community on 28 October 2025. The priest’s nephew named ‘Avril’ on X as well broke the sad news on the platform:...

The United States President Trump has vowed full wrath of the law on a 29-year-old Afghan immigrant who shot two West Virginia Guardsmen on Wednesday afternoon at 17th and I streets NW in Washington, D.C., as the guardsmen conducted high-visibility patrols amid recent deployments for public order. President Trump in a statement had vowed: “The...

A woman in New Zealand who was convicted of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases for years before they were discovered will spend at least 17 years in prison, a judge ruled Wednesday. Justice Geoffrey Venning told Hakyung Lee at the High Court hearing in the city of Auckland that she would begin her sentence as a...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in continuation of their offensive action against drug syndicates in a nationwide crackdown, have dismantled an opioids cartel in an intelligence-led operation during which a baron, Onyekachi Pius Nwanagu and five members of his gang were arrested with illicit substances worth over N6.7 billion recovered from...

2023 presidential aspirantand former governor of Anambra State Peter Obi, on Wednesday revealed that he was in Strasbourg, France, to attend sessions at the European Parliament and had appealed to them to strengthen their relationship with Africa. According to the former governor statement: “While there, I spent the day holding a series of constructive meetings...

Justice Alexandre de Moraes of Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to begin a 27-year prison sentence for a coup plot against his successor, a climax to years of political turmoil and legal battles over his contentious legacy in Brazilian democracy. The court ruled that Bolsonaro will stay at the same federal police headquarters...