Crime

Israel sends former Prime Minister to jail for accepting bribe

The sentence is a reduction in the six-year-sentence handed him by a lower court in 2014.

Guilty as charged! 16 year old convicted of murder and rape of his mathematics teacher

Phillip Chism, at 14, was accused of using a box cutter to stab his 24-year-old teacher and then violating her in the woods, where her body was found.

Photos: Jubilations as Mali hotel reopens 25 days after terror attack

The hotel was subject of a terror attack which left 22 people killed on November 20.

Ikorodu horror! Eight female bodies found in ten days

The last two bodies were still fresh when they were found.

Busted! This guy scammed the Police 6 times

He rushed to this office to say that one of our patrol teams, Metro Patrol Team 7, arrested him and that they extorted from him a sum of about N150,000.

Former city cop found guilty of rape, faces 263 years imprisonment

After deliberating extensively for four days, an all white jury found him guilty of 18 of the charges and recommended a total of 263 years imprisonment.

Man stabbed to death in city row over jacket

He added that Kamara was not involved but tried to calm the situation. He was later attacked outside the restaurant as he left with two girls.

It’s a Merry Christmas! Murder convict, Pistorious, will be home for Christmas

However, he will be allowed to leave the house but only between 7am and midday and not outside a 20km radius. He also has to hand over his passport.

19-year-old Nigerian girl narrowly escapes forced prostitution in Italy

“Don’t you know that when you get to Italy you’ll be working as prostitutes?” came the chilling response.

Who knew how police officer due for promotion wound up dead in own car?

Corporal Agi Elias was on course to become a police sergeant but that will, unfortunately, no longer be.

"You are common criminals," Lagos Police CP tells bribe-collecting officers

“They are no more than common criminals,” Owoseni said.

Police debunk report of 17-year-old who allegedly beat grandma to stupor

“It never happened,” state police spokesperson Kalu Amadi Celestina told Newsroom on Monday.

“Why I beat my grandma to stupor over N20,000 ceremony cash,” 17-year-old allegedly opens up to police

“As he was beating her, the woman fell down and started foaming in the mouth before she slipped into unconsciousness.”

"Civil" Nigerian mob refuses to lynch armed robber, hands him over to police

But the 22-year-old suspect was not passed to the police in one piece.

Ekiti driver allegedly runs away with company's jeep

Usman allegedly stole the car from where it was parked in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, and was driving it to Abuja when he was arrested.

PHOTOS: One killed, shops looted and razed, as Oshodi thugs trade bullets, machetes and sticks

“Shops were also looted and burnt down. The hoodlums do that whenever they fight.”

Police find lifeless body of 70-year-old pastor hanging from ceiling fan

The man was found “with a rope tied to his neck hanging to the ceiling fan in his room.”

OMG! 52 male cultists rape 16-year-old schoolgirl to initiate her into their gathering – police

“She would be given sedatives during the process so that she will not physically feel the pain.”