Crime

Nigeria: An unknown abductor kidnapped four Catholic nuns in Nigeria's southeastern state of Imo on Sunday, August 20, 2022. The nuns were identified as Sisters Johannes Nwodo, Christabel Echemazu, Liberata Mbamalu and Benita Agu.

Anambra police arrested a group of four people who tricked males by trapping them into fake romantic relationships and later blackmailed them with their nude videos and photos.

A 21-year-old female disclosed the details of how she was abducted and raped by a cab driver who offered to give her a life along the road of Obiri-Kwerre Airport in the Obio/Akpor LGA of Rivers State in Nigeria.

Nigeria: The Anambra State Police Command has captured and arrested Mbazulike Iloka, the Transition Committee Chairman of Nnewi North Local Government Area, whose wife, Chidiebere, died suddenly in controversial circumstances. The Chairman was earlier suspended over his wife's death.

A State High Court of Akwa Ibom has sentenced Chief Matthew Odiong, aged 82, a traditional ruler of the Efen Ibom community in the Ika LGA of the state, to death by hanging.

The state government has suspended Mbazuluike Iloka, the newly elected Transition Committee Chairman of Nnewi North LGA of the Anambra State, over his wife's sudden demise.

Justice Oluwayotin Taiwo of the special offences court in Ikeja sentences Pastor Erinmol Adetokunbo to death for killing a seven-year-old minor in the ikorodu area of the state in August 09 2022, Tuesday.

A 23-year-old driver Habibi Gbadamosi docked before Chief Magistrate Court for purportedly killing a 55-year-old man in Oladosu of Surulere area, Sango, Ibadan, due to reckless driving on August 09 2022, Tuesday.

Nigeria in its recent move has nabbed five suspects in an Islamist militant attack in a Catholic church which has resulted in the death of 40 people in early June, as said by Chief of Defence Staff General Leo Irabor on Tuesday.