Category: Crime and Judiciary

One of the social media influencer on X known as Lola Okunrin has called out the Nigeria Police Force over an alleged suspect that was whisked off to Panti State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department over miscarried justice. Panti Police is the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) in Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria, is the Lagos...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has busted a drug trafficking syndicate that was allegedly sponsoring Hajj pilgrims to smuggle narcotics out of the country through Kano State. In a statement on Sunday, NDLEA Spokesperson, Femi Babafemi indicated that the cartel’s activities came to light with the arrest of two alleged drug mules, Ibrahim...

 A man was fatally shot near Germany’s border with the Czech Republic after a federal police patrol stopped his car for a check and he fired at officers, police said Sunday. The shooting occurred on a road between Schirnding and Münchenreuth, just inside Germany, on Saturday afternoon. Bavarian police said the driver left his car...

Following the assurance of the Anambra State Police Command to follow up cases until suspects are apprehended to prevent further cr!minal activities in the State, two suspects were arr£sted on 28th May 2025. The two suspects were allegedly involved in the k!dnap and murder of a female Bank Manager after the collection of a ransom...

South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Stanko on Friday chose to die by lethal injection after his lawyers said he was troubled by what appeared to be a lingering death of the last person in the state who was killed by a firing squad. Stanko, who set to die June 13, had a choice among firing squad,...

 Slovakia’s central bank chief, who is a member of the European Central Bank committee that decides monetary policy for 20 countries, was convicted of bribery and fined 200,000 euros ($225,000) on Thursday. The verdict against central bank Gov. Peter Kažimír was issued by Judge Milan Cisarik at the country’s Special Criminal Court in Pezinok. Kažimír’s attorneys argued...

More than three years after a family of four from India froze to death while trying to enter the U.S. along a remote stretch of the Canadian border in a blizzard, the convicted ringleader of an international human smuggling plot was sentenced in Minnesota on Wednesday to 10 years in prison. Federal prosecutors had recommended nearly 20...

On Wednesday, May 28, 2025, the EFCC in Kano succeeded in convicting and sentencing social media influencer Murja Ibrahim Kunya. The verdict was handed down by Justice Simone Amobeda at the Federal High Court in Kano. Kunya was detained on suspicion of playfully throwing Naira notes around her hotel room at Tahir Guest Palace in...

A French court on Wednesday found a retired surgeon guilty of sexually abusing hundreds of patients, many of them children, in a trial that has shaken France. Joel Le Scouarnec’s abuse of his patients is considered France’s worst case of pedocriminality to go to trial. He stood accused of aggravated rape or sexual assault against...

As law officers search Arkansas’ rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison this weekend by impersonating a guard and walking out through a gate a guard opened for him, the sister of one of his victims is on edge. Grant Hardin, the former police chief in the small...