Category: Crime and Judiciary

A court in Slovakia on Tuesday convicted the man in last year’s attempted assassination of the country’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico of a terror attack and sentenced him to 21 years in prison. The shooting and the trial have shaken this small, European Union and NATO-member country where Fico has long been a divisive figure, criticized for straying from Slovakia’s...

A Kano State High Court has sentenced two men to death by for the murder of Buhari Imam, a lecturer with Northwest University, Kano. The convicts, Hussaini of Sheka Sabuwar Abuja Quarters and Zakariyya of Unguwar Malam Quarters, Kumbotso local government area, were found guilty on a three-count charge of conspiracy, armed robbery and culpable...

The troops of Operation Enduring Peace in Jos, Plateau state said to have bursted a location where arms and ammunition are being stockpile by a criminal syndicate. According to Major Samson Zhakom in Jos revealed in a statement that as part of efforts by security agencies to break the chain of illegal arms dealing and...

Texas authorities have arrested a 36-year-old U.S.-based Nigerian woman, Gbemisola Akayinode for the murder of her 9-year-old daughter, Oluwasikemi Akayinode, after being left inside a hot car. The Nigerian immigrant working at a USG Corporation plant in Galena Park, Texas, left Oluwasekemi unattended in a parked car for over eight hours on July 1, 2025,...

 A Utah judge on Monday sentenced a man who appeared to fake his death and flee the United States to avoid arrest on rape charges to anywhere from five years to life in prison. Nicholas Rossi, 38, is “a serial abuser of women” and “the very definition of a flight risk,” District Judge Barry Lawrence said before...

The Benue State Police Command has confirmed the death of a suspected armed robber and assassin identified as Saater of Wannune, Tarka Local Government Area, who had been on the Command’s wanted list for alleged involvement in multiple murders. According to a statement issued by the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Udeme Edet, the late...

Troops of the Nigerian Army said to have killed 17 terrorists, arrested 85 suspects, and rescued 10 kidnapped victims in a series of coordinated operations across the country within the last 48 hours. A credible source at the Army Headquarters told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the feats were recorded across several theatres of operation...

 Iran executed a person convicted of spying for Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad in the city of Qom, the official judiciary news agency reported Sunday. The sentence was carried out early Saturday after the Supreme Court upheld the ruling and a request for a pardon was denied, the Mizan news agency said. The report didn’t identify...

 Iran executed a person convicted of spying for Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad in the city of Qom, the official judiciary news agency reported Sunday. The sentence was carried out early Saturday after the Supreme Court upheld the ruling and a request for a pardon was denied, the Mizan news agency said. The report didn’t identify...

 A Rhode Island man who appeared to fake his death and flee the United States to avoid rape charges is scheduled to be sentenced Monday on one of two rape convictions in Utah. Nicholas Rossi, 38, faces between five years and life in prison when sentenced Monday by District Judge Barry Lawrence in Salt Lake City. The...