A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, convicted a vessel, MV Peace alongside its 11 crew, for conspiracy and unlawful dealing in 200 metric tons of petroleum product. Trial judge, Justice Mohammed Idris after pronouncing the vessel and its crew guilty of the three counts charge brought against them by the Economic and Financial […]
The Ogun state police command on Tuesday said they have arrested a 45 year-old man identified as Julius Ochim for impregnating his own daughter. Ochim was arrested in Shagamu area of the state following a complaint lodged with the police in the town by his daughter (name withheld) that she was impregnated by her own […]
Mr Goddy Inyama, a 30-year old has been arraigned before a Magistrate court in Lagos for allegedly raping a pre-teen girl.Inyama was brought before the Ajegunle Magistrate court by Police Inspector Augustine Ejembi for defiling the 10-year old both vaginally and anally. The defendant pled not guilty to the three-count charge of non-consensual vaginal and […]
BAGHDAD A criminal court in Iraq’s eastern Diyala province on Monday sentenced four suspected al-Qaeda militants to death for involvement in terrorist attacks in 2007. “The four were convicted of membership in al-Qaeda organization and carrying out terrorist attacks,” Abdul-Sattar Bayrakdar, a spokesman for Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, said in a statement. He said the […]
Extremists attacked a school for midwives in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday morning, forcing its young female students to flee or take refuge in a fortified safe room on its grounds, according to Afghan authorities and witnesses at the scene. The attack began about 11 a.m. at the Midwifery Training Center in Jalalabad, as assailants believed […]
A 14-year-old girl has been reportedly lured by a 46-year-old woman for her husband to rape her in their home. According to reports, the unbelievable incident occurred in Zimbabwe sometimes in 2015. The strange couple, Mufaro Mukonowatsauka and Rodgers Manera have since been arrested for the alleged rape of the 14-year-old neighbour, who was reportedly […]
A celebrity Brazilian plastic surgeon known as Dr Bumbum has gone on the run after a woman died following injections he gave her to enlarge her buttocks. Investigators say Dr Denis Furtado carried out the procedure on Lilian Calixto at his home in Rio de Janeiro but she fell ill during the procedure. Dr Furtado […]
Daughter of the immediate past deputy governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Olugbenga Oluboyo, who was reported missing, Miss Adenike Khadijat, has been found dead in Akure, the state capital. The late Khadijat was found dead under the bed of her Abuja-based boyfriend, Adeyemi Alao, in Oke-Aro area of the city on Thursday, after she was […]
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday fixed October 2 for ruling on the objection to the hearing of a motion seeking to quash the charge against a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dele Belgore. Mr Belgore is standing trial on a N450 million money laundering charge. Mr Belgore was arraigned along with a former […]
A British nurse has become the first person to be convicted under new modern slavery laws, after being found guilty of trafficking five Nigerian women to Germany to work as prostitutes. Josephine Iyamu was prosecuted under the Modern Slavery Act involving victims who have no connection to the UK but have been victimised by a […]
