Crime

Man who stole spaghetti gets 7 year jail sentence

Actually he stole lots of spaghetti. A Lagos High Court has sentenced one Sayyu Aliyu…

Bridegroom who punched two of wife’s bridesmaids gets one-year jail term

He said he was drunk and high on cocaine.

Gunmen open fire on a house, kill baby girl

Such shootings are not new in the community.

Gambler goes on killing spree after losing money in casino

He wanted to borrow money to continue gambling.

Photo: EFCC seals medical facility allegedly owned by unnamed “yam eater”

Who owns this sealed building?

Video: She forced me to look at her face and slapped me for doing so, man beaten by cadets recounts

“This bastard called me beautiful,” she said.

Convicted child rapist escapes after being freed to attend “fake” family funeral

Choudry Ikhalaq Hussain had told the police that he wanted to attend the funeral of…

Ibadan alleged murder: Is marriage by fire, by force?

Pretenses, that’s what many marriages are surviving on.

Police arrest 2 with decomposing human head

The head was already decomposing when they were arrested.

Boy, 11, murders 8-year-old girl for refusing to let him play with puppies

The girl reportedly laughed at him saying the guns weren’t real.

Danish teen faces fine for fighting off attacker with pepper spray

It’s illegal to use pepper spray in Denmark.

Why Ibadan lawyer “stabbed husband to death”

Lowo had a girlfriend in France.

Iraqi refugee rapes 10-year-old boy, says it was a “sexual emergency”

He said he had not had sex in four months.

Church pastor allegedly impregnates nine church members

“He uses magical powers to woo young girls”

Woman appears at own funeral, confronts “jealous” husband who paid $7000 to have her killed

“Sometimes [the] devil can come into someone to do something,” the husband said.

In photos: 38-year-old man whose lawyer wife “stabbed to death” in Ibadan

He was such a handsome dude.

“Fake Gombe Governor” pleads not guilty to N.2m fraud charges

Hearing in the case continues in five days.