Crime

Police officials in the Anambra State of Nigeria have neutralised a kidnap kingpin and detained some of his gang members at Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area.

Another gruesome day of cross-examination for Sergeant Thabo Johannes Mosia by lawyer Zandile Mshololo, representing accused number five, disclosed to the court that the crime scene was cleaned before the arrival of police officers at the scene.

Around 50 people were killed and many others injured after gunmen brutally attacked a Catholic church in the Ondo State of Nigeria during mass on Sunday, 5 June.

Advocate Malesela Teffo, the Defence lawyer, has claimed that an eyewitness will attest Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa was shot dead by his girlfriend by mistake, singer Kelly Khumalo.

The Prelate of Nigeria's Methodist Church, His Eminence, Samuel Kanu-Uche, kidnapped by hoodlums in Abia State, has stated that N100m was paid by the church to safeguard his freedom.

Nigeria: A 54-year-old Pastor Peter Nwachukwu, husband to the late Osinachi Nwachukwu, has been sentenced to death by hanging as given by the Attorney-General of the Federation.

A series of killings in southeast Nigeria blamed on a well-known Biafran secessionist group has caused outrage in the area and added another type of insecurity in the country, where abductions for ransom are very ordinary in the north-west, and an Islamist insurgency has been continuing for over a decade in the north-east.

Around 30 people lost their lives in southern Nigeria on Saturday, 28 May, due to a stampede that erupted during a crowded church charity event.

A Nigerian citizen residing in Delhi was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police on the charges of cheating over 300 women and deceiving them of crores of rupees by promising them to marry, said officials on Friday, May 27.