Category: Crime and Judiciary

A U.S. political science scholar accused by the Thai military of insulting the Southeast Asian nation’s monarchy — an offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison — was jailed on Tuesday pending trial. Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University in the northern province of Phitsanulok, was first summoned by police last week to hear...

A Lagos Mobile Court has sentenced two individuals to three months’ custodial imprisonment for orchestrating a violent and coordinated mob attack on the operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authorit (LASTMA) while they were carrying out their lawful duties. According to the General Manager of LASTMA, Mr Olalekan Bakare-Oki, who revealed in a statement...

Palestinian medics report that Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight and into Tuesday killed at least 25 people, including eight children and five women. A strike on a home in the central town of Deir al-Balah killed 11 people, including five children as young as two, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received...

Bill Murray said a masked kiss in 2022 on the set of a movie led to sexual misconduct allegations that eventually shut down the film, an incident the famed actor says still bothers him and feels he was “barbecued” for. In 2022, a female staff member working on the film set for “Being Mortal” accused...

Abroad based Nigerian Investigative journalist and founder of the West Africa Weekly, a Substack newsletter, David Hundeyin warned Nigerians against travelling to any west African countries to look for job, claimed they may likely fall victim of human trafficking under the disguise of work. Hundeyin emphasised they have better opportunity of getting work in Nigeria...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 75-year-old, Felix Nnanna, with 1.6kg of skunk, a strain of cannabis. Mr Nnana was arrested during a raid at Umunteke Asa, Ukwa West Local Government Area (LGA) in Abia. A statement released by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday said the suspect was nabbed...

Multiple people were seriously injured Sunday morning in a brutal stabbing attack in a New York home. New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch at a briefing on Sunday afternoon said Police shot the attacker, who slashed four children at a residence in Brooklyn with a meat cleaver, The police department got a call at around...

In a major breakthrough in the fight against insecurity, three members of a notorious five-man kidnapping syndicate were apprehended today, Sunday, 6th April 2025, in Ogoli-Ugboju, Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue State. The suspects—Ibrahim Salleh, Ashimu, and Abuh Umaru—have long been linked to a series of abductions and criminal activities in Otukpo and surrounding...

Ex-militant leaders in the Niger Delta region are at odds over a multimillion-naira pipeline protection contract, with tensions rising amid the recent renewal of a major security contract and shifting political dynamics. The disagreement centers around a pipeline protection contract awarded to a company with links to the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, and...

Some years ago, the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) special project team approached the Deputy Senate President (Ike Ekweremmadu) to help them fast-track the funding for a project in the hospital through a government intervention project. He asked them to submit their proposal and they did. It was N400million for Renal Centre. The N400m...