Category: Crime and Judiciary

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...

Fighters linked to Syria’s ousted leader Bashar al-Assad mounted a deadly attack on government forces Thursday, authorities said, in some of the worst violence against the government since Islamist-led rebels seized power. According to the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, 147 people have been killed including civilians executed on the spot. An earlier report said that...

A Chinese doctoral student was found guilty Wednesday in a London court of drugging and raping 10 women in England and China, as police warned there could be more than 50 other victims. Zhenhao Zou, 28, was convicted of the attacks between 2019 and 2023 following a month long trial at the Inner London Crown Court. He was...

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has intercepted a former immigration officer who was attempting to sell sophisticated firearms to bandits operating in the Abuja-Kaduna forests. The dismissed officer whose name was not disclosed was arrested following an intelligence-led operation by the police. Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, the Officer in Charge of...

Florida has launched a criminal investigation into British-American influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who flew to the state last week from Romania, where they faced rape and human-trafficking charges. Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, said investigators have issued search warrants and subpoenas as part of a “now-active” inquiry. In the US, the brothers also face...

“These guys, have themselves, publicly admitted to participating in what very much appears to be soliciting, trafficking, preying upon women, around the world. “Many of these victims coming forward, with some of them minor (people can spin and defend them if they want) but in Florida, this kind of behaviour is view as atrocious, we...