Category: Crime and Judiciary

The number of former Indiana University basketball players who say team doctor Bradford Bomba Sr. sexually assaulted them has risen to four. And their lawsuit against their alma mater now includes an account from a fifth ex-IU basketball player who says he publicly complained to legendary coach Bobby Knight in 1979 about Bomba’s giving him unnecessary rectal...

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Justice Abimbola Awogboro of the Federal High Court, Ilorin on Friday, March 7, 2025 convicted and sentenced two Chinese, Yang Chao and Wu Shan Chuan to prison for illegal mining of solid minerals in Kwara State. They were convicted along with their company, Crius Chemical Nigeria Limited. They were prosecuted on a one-count charge, bordering on dealing with illegal solid minerals mining.  The charge...

RELIEF FOR FCT RESIDENTS AS POLICE NEUTRALIZE INFAMOUS KIDNAPPER DOGO SALEH. The FCT Police Command has recorded a major breakthrough in its relentless fight against criminal elements terrorizing the Federal Capital Territory and neighboring states. In a well-coordinated intelligence-led operation, FCT Police operatives neutralized a notorious bandit, Salisu Mohammed, alias “Dogo Saleh,” following an intense...

Troops of operation Fansan Yanma have killed two “notorious bandit leaders” identified as Yusuf Gwamna and Malam Ashiru in Dutsin-Ma LGA of Katsina state. Zagazola Makama, a counterinsurgency publication focused on the Lake Chad region, reports that the operation, carried out late Friday night, was led by a joint security task force comprising the military,...

Operatives of the Lagos Police Command have arrested a suspected cult leader, Christian Chukwudi, also known as “Marshal General”, over the brutal murder of a Disc Jockey (DJ) in the Abule-Ado area of the state. The victim, Victor Dickson, 32, was performing on stage at a hotel along Community Road on Saturday night when armed...

Operatives attached to the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos, have arrested three suspects with alleged specialty in forging cheques of international banks. The suspects, the police said, were also notorious for impersonating foreign celebrities. Innocent Odumosor, 27, Ajie Samuel Chukwudi, 31, and Godwin Divine, 19, were arrested at their Lagos...

Three Bulgarian nationals based in Britain were convicted on Friday by a London jury of spying for Russia on what prosecutors said was “an industrial scale.” The trio was accused of putting lives in danger as they acted on orders on behalf of Russian intelligence to carry out surveillance across Europe between 2020 and 2023. Katrin Ivanova, 33, Vanya Gaberova, 30,...

Lori Vallow Daybell, the mother, who is serving multiple life sentences, and her husband, who was sentenced to death, were found guilty in the deaths of her children and her husband’s previous wife. In her first-ever media interview, Lori expressed no remorse for the murder of her children and said she feels “great” acting as her own...