Gunmen, in a daring attack on Thursday, opened fire on Nigeria Correctional Service officers, who were conveying 10 crime suspects to a Plateau High Court in...
An Osun State High Court sitting in Ile-Ife on Tuesday sentenced a 37- year-old man, Ogunyemi Oluleke to death by hanging for murder. Oluleke was arraigned...
Five suspected cultists have been arrested in connection with the alleged murder of one Friday Okoloba in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State. The five...
The long arm of the law has finally caught up with Shinji Aoba, 42, who faces murder, and arson charges after he stormed into a studio...
A court in South Africa has found a police constable, Austin Reynolds, guilty for the murder of a Nigerian, Ebuka Okoli. This was disclosed by the...
Igbo residents particularly in Gboko, Benue State have raised an alarm over the danger posed to their lives following spates of targeted kidnappings and murder of...
The Kano State Police Command has arrested a 57-year-old man, Tijjani Yahaya, for allegedly stabbing his 20-year-old brother, Aminu Mohammad, to death. This was contained in...
Gunmen shot dead a radio broadcaster, late on Wednesday in the Philippines, worsening the country’s record as one of the most dangerous places in the world...
A new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes has revealed that about 64,000 Nigerians are murdered annually in the country. The report...
One person was reported killed with several injured as hoodlums engaged one another in a fight that lasted more than an hour on Wednesday at Badore...
A UN rights expert has concluded, after citing credible evidence that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be investigated over the killing of journalist Jamal...
A Major, two captains, two staff sergeants and one sergeant have been dragged before a seven-member court martial over their alleged involvement in murder, kidnapping and...
A 23-year-old man, Emmanuel Olowu, has been remanded at the Ikoyi Prison, Lagos, for allegedly shooting to death a Police Sergeant. The Prosecutor, Inspector Oladele Adebayo,...
The suspected gunman in the New Zealand mosque killing, Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant pleaded not guilty to all charges when he appeared in the Christchurch High...
The police in Ekiti State have confirmed the alleged beheading of a lady in Ilasa Ekiti, Ekiti East Local Government Area of the state on Wednesday,...
A suspect named Monday Nnaji has been arrested by the police in Enugu State for allegedly killing a secondary school boy, Great Nwobodo, in Amodu community,...
A German nurse has been jailed for life after being convicted of murdering 85 patients, Associated Press reports. Niels Hoegel had been charged with 100 counts...
The suspected killer of a female student of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Chinasa Agbata has been arrested by the Anambra State Police Command. The undergraduate...
The Edo state Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed DanMallam, on Sunday confirmed the killing of a lecturer identified as Kelvin Izebeokhai who was killed by unknown...
A Mexican reporter, Francisco Romero has been killed in the town of Playa del Carmen. He had been under official government protection, Aljazeera reports. The body...
A High Court sitting in Calabar, has sentenced a former employee of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Godwin Elewana, to death by hanging for murder....
Justice Raliat Adebiyi found Abiodun guilty of murder contrary Section 221 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. Abiodun was said to have killed Wale,...
The Niger state police command has confirmed that a 30 years old man, Uwani Danjuma killed his wife at Uddu Village in the Rijau Local Government...
The Enugu State Police Command has arrested an Onitsha based businessman, Mr. Ikechukwu Odoh, for alleged complicity in the murder of his wife, Mrs. Chinenye Odoh,...
A driver, Abednego Ajibola has been sentenced to death by hanging by an Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti for killing a colleague, Ojo...
A man, Chukwudi Onweniwe, has been sentenced to death by an Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure, for killing his girlfriend, Nifemi Adeyeoye Adeyeoye, a...
The long arm of the law has caught up with two suspects for the murder of a 39-year-old victim identified as Okundolor Omoruyi in Egor Local...
A murder suspect from Cleveland, Steve Stephens, who posted a video of him killing an elderly citizen on Facebook has reportedly killed himself. Authorities said Tuesday...
If prosecutors succeed in charging him as an adult, then a 17-year-old boy who is accused of being behind the murder his parents could serve a...
Just over a year into the tenure of Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, at least four top officials of his administration have been linked to...
A 50-year-old man identified as Williams, a resident of Emure in Emure Local Government Area of Ekiti State, who could no longer bear the shame of...
The Lagos State Government on Tuesday commenced moves to charge the suspected kidnappers of the Oniba of Iba, Oba Goriola Oseni to court for criminal conspiracy,...
Rivers State All Progressives Congress (APC), has fingered Governor Nyesom Wike and members of the state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for the murder, of activist lawyer...
The Sokoto State Police Command on Sunday confirmed the alleged murder of a 43-year-old woman, Yemisi Adio, by her husband, Taiwo Adio. This is contained in...
About 20 soldiers on different ranks are to be tried for different offences ranging from murder to sale öf firearms in counter insurgency warfare in the...
A jealous housewife has bagged a death sentence by hanging for stabbing her pastor-husband to death with a kitchen knife and setting him on fire. The...
There are indications that the unresolved murder of a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige may soon be cracked,...
It was a tragic day for the family of Mr. Olawale Elisha, a pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, as his preacher wife,...
Residents of Ikorodu area of Lagos State are reportedly living in fear, after the murder of a prominent leader of Onyabo Vigilance Group, Afeez Oseni. The...
By Yomi Odunuga…No, some murderous, cold-blooded ‘herdsmen’ presumably from the bottomless pit of hell committed the most heinous form of murder in far-away Nimbo in Uzo-Uwani...
The murder of Guilio Regeni an Italian PhD student of the Cambridge University now clouds the relationship between Egypt and Italy. Reports say Regeni who worked...
A South African appeals court overturned Thursday the manslaughter verdict against Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius finding him guilty of murder and sending him back to prison...
By Ify Chiemeziem . . . I saw a newborn baby thrown away in a rubbish dumb in Calabar. His mother put him in a polythene...
The killing of Dhaka-based blogger Niladri Chatterjee Niloy, has swung authorities into action as three people have been arrested in connection with the murder police in...
By and large, Hindus and Muslims live side-by-side in relative peace across India. But every now and then, the calm is punctured by moments of madness...
The policeman, Aremu Musiliu, who shot at a family riding in a tricycle (keke) killing the wife, and injuring the Husband (driver) along Ijegun road, Alimosho,...
The long arms of the law has eventually caught up with a fleeing Nigerian fugitive, Abdul Adewale Kekere-Eku, as he was on Monday sentenced to life...
A white South Carolina police officer has been charged with murder after video emerged of him shooting a black man running away from him. State investigators...
LAGOS—A cemetery attendant, Bashir Junaid, has prayed a Federal High Court, Lagos, to grant an order of Mandamus ordering the Inspector General of Police to reopen...
