crime

For rejecting his affection towards her, a 27-year-old Kenyan man has chopped off his ex-girlfriend’s hand. The suspect identified as Joel Okongo was charged for causing grievous harm to the victim after he severed the high school student’s left hand in Silanga area of Kibera in Nairobi on April 22, …

Following recent claims of sexual misconduct , the world’s richest man, Elon Musk has become $10 billion poorer in a single day. According to Bloomberg, as Tesla’s stock plunged, its founder and CEO‘s wealth reduced by $10 billion on Friday, May 20. This is coming after a report that SpaceX settled …

Senator Ademola Adeleke’s campaign billboards have been set ablaze in Ejigbo town, Osun State’s Ejigbo Local Government Area. According to reports, a mob was seen destroying and tearing down billboards in various parts of town. Senator Ademola Adeleke is the PDP’s gubernatorial candidate in the Osun 2022 election. The cause of the …

Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), fighters have reportedly opened fire on the convoy carrying policemen attached to a yet-to-be-identified presidential aspirant of the ruling All Progressives Congress. According to SaharaReporters, security sources said that the terrorists attacked the convoy along Maiduguri-Damaturu Road while it was travelling from Abuja for a presidential …

The Multi-national Joint Task Force says it has apprehended no fewer than 30 persons who claimed to be fisherman at a fish market at Lake Chad shores. MNJTF said the newly discovered fish market is operated by the Boko Haram/ Islamic State for West African Province. The task force announced the …

Police in Delta state say they have neutralised some suspected kidnappers and armed robbers terrorising the state, killing ten in the process. In a statement issued by the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bright Edafe, the police engaged the nonstate actor in fierce gun battle around Kwale axis in …

Commercial motorcyclists popularly called Okada riders allegedly tricked and stolen N30, 000 from a point-of-sale operator, Zainab Adediran, at Arepo, in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State. The incident happened around 11am on Sunday at the Underbridge area of Arepo, where the woman had a kiosk. According …

Gunmen attacked and set a police station and vehicles ablaze in Anaku in Ayamelum Local Government Area of Anambra State. The hoodlums hours after killing seven persons on Sunday in Anambra, killed another four in two other locations in Ogbunike, Oyi Local Government Area of the state. Sources had reported …

Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has called for the sack and prosecution of Prof Ibrahim Maqari, the Deputy Chief Imam of Abuja’s National Mosque, for supporting the lynching of Deborah Samuel, a female student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, by her colleagues over alleged blasphemy. Soyinka said …

Operatives of the Kano State Police Command have intercepted a vehicle loaded with bomb-making devices and sophisticated weapons in the state. The State Police spokesperson, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who confirmed the incident in a statement said the command on May 19 through credible Intelligence intercepted a Mercedes Benz carrying …