Category: Crime and Judiciary

The Apetu of Ipetumodu in Osun State, Oba Joseph Oloyede, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison in the United States. The arrest, which was made alongside his alleged accomplice, Nigerian pastor Edward Abiodun Oluwasanmi, follows an investigation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Oloyede, 62, who holds dual U.S....

A German court on Tuesday convicted a 16-year-old boy of supporting a foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Austria last year. The Syrian national, whom prosecutors have identified only as Mohammad A. in line with German privacy rules, was convicted of preparing a serious act of violence and supporting a terrorist act of violence abroad....

Japanese authorities bowed and offered flowers at the grave of a businessman to apologise for wrongfully charging him with exporting potentially sensitive industrial machines. Shizuo Aishima and three other executives were arrested for illegal exports in March 2020. He died of stomach cancer in February 2021, five months before the indictments were dropped. His family...

President Trump had signed an executive order instructing the Department of Justice to prosecute people who burn the American flag. “I think our nation now is the most respected nation anywhere in the world by far. They call me the president of Europe, which is an honor.”

American rapper Lil Nas X, whose legal name is Montero Hill, has been charged with four felonies stemming from an incident where he was found wandering naked on a Los Angeles street last week. The charges, which include three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting an executive...

A teenage boy was the victim of a brutal gang rape during the annual Moulay Abdellah Amghar festival in El Jadida province.  The child, referred to as W.B., is a 13-year-old boy who lost his father and whose mother suffers from a serious mental illness. He attended the festival accompanied by a group of young...

Two men were publicly flogged in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Tuesday after being convicted of having same-sex relations. The punishment, which took place in a public park in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, saw the men each receive 76 lashes from a rattan stick under the province’s strict Islamic Sharia law. Gay sex is...

A Pakistani asylum seeker has appeared in court after being accused of repeatedly raping an eight-year-old girl. It is alleged that Kamran Khan, 43, raped the child twice between September 2024 and July 2025 before forcing her to watch a third person engage in sexual activity. He made the eight-year-old make him ejaculate and also...

Typhoon Kajiki killed at least three people and injured 10 others in Vietnam, authorities said Tuesday as they warned that heavy rains could cause flooding and landslides. The storm damaged nearly 7,000 homes, inundated 28,800 hectares of rice plantings and felled 18,000 trees, the government said in a statement. It also brought down 331 electricity poles, causing...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 55-year-old drug kingpin, Mohammed Ali Abubakar, alias Bello Karama and five members of his syndicate responsible for framing three innocent Nigerians who are currently being held in Saudi Arabia. According to the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, the mastermind, Mohammed Ali Abubakar...