The Delta State Police Command has arrested an un-named serving police officer for allegedly being behind the blackmail of a Warri hotel manager in whose hotel a lady allegedly turned into a snake. The un-named officer attached to Ekpan Police Station ...Read More

A suspected drug trafficker has allegedly excreted 99 wraps of cocaine weighing 1.425kg while under observation by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. The suspect, Chidi Odor, a 28-year old professional welder, who was based in Italy, was arrested ...Read More

Five armed robbers who were involved in the invasion of a new generation bank on Oyemekun Road in Akure, the Ondo state capital, last November, have been arrested by the Ondo State police command. Also, the state command of the ...Read More

Four persons are believed to have died as street gangs clashed in Adeniji Adele in Lagos Island, Lagos State on Monday over the control of parts of the territory. The fighting later spread to Ladipo area of Mushin. Reports said the Lagos Island ...Read More

A police Corporal, Mr Emmanuel Okoye, attached to the Ifako Police Station in Lagos, has allegedly kidnapped a 17-year-old girl, Patience Isabor, from her residence in Bariga, Lagos. Sources said that the incident happened on Feb. 10, when Okoye allegedly entered ...Read More

By Christopher Oji Residents of Erinfolami Street, off Ago Palace Way, Okota, Lagos, were thrown into mourning as a woman allegedly beat her husband to death at the weekend. However, the police are presently interrogating the woman to establish her culpability. ...Read More

An early morning explosion on Sunday went off near the Christ Embassy Church at Suleja, Niger State, injuring five persons. One of the injured is a baby. Five vehicles parked in the vicinity were also destroyed by the explosion. The device, said ...Read More

A middle-aged young man has been beaten to death for stealing church offerings at St. Mary’s Catholic Parish, Eha-Alumona, Nsukka, Enugu State. The deceased, Chinedu Ugwuodo, with one other now at large was caught right inside the Parish Priest apartment ransacking ...Read More

Three persons died at about midnight on Saturday when a petroleum truck exploded at Mile 2, near Festac Town, in Lagos. There was report that the fire, which followed the explosion, injured many people and burnt 39 vehicles, including a number ...Read More

Since the arrest of both suspects, an investigation conducted by law enforcement agents to establish the circumstances surrounding the disappearance  of Olokodana has led to the arrest of about seven people, including  some commercial motorcyclists in the area. CRIME DIGEST learnt ...Read More

An Ohio man, 24 year old man acting on a 'revenge mission' sent naked photos of his sexual affairs with other women to his traveled wife as a valentine surprise package, local media radio reported. The man Thomas Radison was reportedly ...Read More

In a case that has shocked even investigators, a California man is in jail for allegedly cooking and eating cats. Jason Louis Wilmert is being held in the Kern County Jail on charges alleging animal cruelty and using a pet or ...Read More

Frontline politician and erstwhile governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has urged president Goodluck Jonathan never to allow the nation fade into cultural pot of time. The national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN gave this charge on ...Read More

By Adeshola Fashola The earlier claim made by the men of the Nigerian police that Kabiru Sokoto, the alleged Kingpin of the Christmas Day bombing of St. Theresa in Mandalla escaped from lawful Custody could have been a hoax after all- ...Read More

Mrs Comfort Ajene, the Benue Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, has warned hoteliers in the state to provide condoms for guests or risk closure. Ajene gave the directive on Thursday in Makurdi at an AIDS sensitisation programme organised by the Ministry ...Read More

By Sesan Olufowobi and Eniola Akinkuotu Three policemen attached to the Igando Police Division, allegedly killed two drivers at a road block for refusing to give them a bribe in the early hours of Wednesday. The development came less than a week ...Read More

The republic of South Korea disclosed, Tuesday, that it was ready to share her experience in the handling of terrorism issues and challenges with Nigeria following increased Boko Haram attacks facing our nation. Making the disclosure when he visited the minister ...Read More

By Adeshola Fashola A housewife, Folashayo, has told a court that her husband, Bolade Anjorin, is so promiscuous that he brings women to their home and sleeps with them in her presence. Folashayo, Secretary of the Ifako-Ijaiye Welders Association, who is seeking ...Read More

By Oluwole Adeboye A 52-year old Lebanese, Habeeb Haschem, was yesterday murdered in his room at Palace Chinese Resataurant, fornerly known as Sizzler Palace on 72, Kofo Abayomi, off Ibikunle Akintoye Street, Apapa, Lagos, Souhtwest Nigeria. According to PM News, he was ...Read More

Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, said the defunct Nigeria Airways was a failure to the country and the aviation industry in particular. Speaking at the launch of a book by Oba Olufemi Ogunleye, entitled: “Nigerian Civil Aviation: Decade ...Read More

By Mistah Cole The Denzel Washington thriller/action packed movie which also stars Ryan Reynolds is now showing in Nigerian cinemas. The movie entitled 'Safe House' is currently offering movie goers something new to watch at the cinemas this weekend. The movie which ...Read More

The Lagos State Government has shut down four casinos over alleged sharp practices and non-compliance with the law establishing casinos. Government officials from the Office of the Special Adviser on Taxation and Revenue and policemen attached to the state Task Force ...Read More

Confusion engulfed the Nigerian Union of Journalists secretariat, Abeokuta on Thursday when a corps member stabbed a colleague with a broken bottle during a send-off. The corps members were said to be members of the Batch A National youth Service Corps, ...Read More

By Adeshola Fashola A gang member who killed a promising young athlete in south-east London has been jailed for a minimum of 30 years the BBC reported on Thursday. Sodiq Adeojo, 20, of Shurland Gardens, Peckham, was found guilty at the Old ...Read More

Amitabh Bachchan, who is recuperating from two recent abdominal surgeries, says some new medical issues have emerged, and it is likely that his stay at the Seven Hills Hospital here may be further extended. "I seek forgiveness...I will not be ...Read More

We just came across an audio recording announcing that Bobby Brown will be in Nigeria with New Edition in March! Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown who married late singer Whitney Houston, with whom he had daughter Bobbi Kristina on March 4, 1993 ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo Some would think that the bombs going off in Northern Nigeria, the threats of MEND and the rise in poverty levels in Nigeria are bizzare enough issues for this country to cope with. But when one hears of a ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has condemned the use of force by a traditional ruler in Enugu State to make a man to drink water used in washing a corpse. In a statement issued in Enugu on Wednesday, Mr ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo News making rounds in Kogi state and indeed Nigeria echo a frightening jailbreak in which about 200 criminals were released. Reports trickling from Kogi confirm that some gunmen have freed nearly 200 prisoners from a jail in the Koton-Karif ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo Catholics all over the world have condemned Nicki Minaj for her brainless antics at the just concluded Grammy Awards. Joining in the criticism was Catholic League president Bill Donohue. Nicki Minaj, fresh off looking like a fool with Madonna at ...Read More

By Obinna Odenigbo A 59 year old British lady- Vicky Fowkes, decided to start dating online in early summer 2010 and by August she was sending 'moneygrams' to Nigeria. The recepient made her believe he was a charming British man called ...Read More

By Adeshola Fashola Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded two men convicted of drug trafficking in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the interior ministry announced. Mohammed Abdulmalik Ajaj, a Syrian, was arrested for smuggling “207,000 banned narcotic pills”, the ministry said in a statement published ...Read More