Crime

Rights Chief appalled by continued killing of civilians in El Fasher

Geneva, Oct.10, 2025 – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday condemned in the strongest terms the continued killing and injuring of civilians in El Fasher....

NIDCOM condemns inhuman treatment of Nigerian girls in India

Abuja, September 30, 2025: Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), has strongly condemned...

Police investigates death of Arise TV journalist Somtochukwu Maduagwu

The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has launched a discreet investigation into the death of...

US court sentences Nigerian man to over 5 years in prison for defrauding widow

Akindele posed as a wealthy Italian American businessman, “Frank Labato,” on a dating website, where he met a...

UNILAG student accuses lecturer of sexual assault in office

Dr. Samuel Ojogbo, a lecturer at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), has been accused of sexually assaulting a...
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Court orders remand of Emefiele in EFCC custody

The Ikeja High Court in Lagos State has ordered the remand of former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele in...

Rights Watch accuses RSF of raping women, girls in Darfur

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), an independent military force, and allied militias in Sudan raped several dozen women and girls in West Darfur’s capital, El Geneina, and those fleeing to Chad between late April and late June 2023, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. 

Man docked for allegedly swindling bank accounts officer

A 36-year-old man, Olusegun Ogunbamiwo, was on Thursday docked in an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly to swindling an accounts officer of N510,000.

Why Court remands housewife for stabbing husband to death

An Ibadan Magistrates Court has remanded a housewife, Damilola Opeyemi, in Abolongo Correctional facility in Oyo town for allegedly stabbing her husband to death over noodles.

Lucy Letby: Nurse found guilty of murdering seven babies

Lucy Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others on a neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital between June 2015 and June 2016.

Protesters languish in Lagos prison three years after #EndSARS – Amnesty

Amnesty International has said that a total of fifteen protesters arrested in 2020 are still being arbitrarily detained three years after the #EndSARS protest that took Nigeria by storm.
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