Crime

Terrorists on Wednesday morning, May 25, broke into the rectory of Saint Patrick Catholic Church, Gidan Maikambo, which is located in the Kafur Local Government Area of Katsina State and abducted two Catholic Priests and two boys, said the authorities.

Nigeria: A teacher from Simple Faith Schools, Agbara, Lagos State, has reportedly beaten a male student, aged 12, to death for not completing his assignment.

An angry Islamist mob went on a rampage on Monday, May 23 and set fire to more than a dozen residential and commercial properties after failing to capture a 40-year-old Christian lady they wanted to kill over alleged blasphemy charges.

More than 50 people were killed on Sunday, 22 May, by militants in the Borno state of Nigeria, in the country's northeastern trip around the border with Cameroon, says witnesses.

Five people have been captured for being part of a group that attracts South Africans to sell their personal details to foreigners so that they can get SA passports.

Prof Chukwuma Charles Soludo, Governor of Anambra State, has announced a reward of N10 million for anyone that has essential information that will lead to the immediate arrest of the wrongdoers of Hon. Okechukwu Okoye's death.

The Police of Nigeria of Kano Command has disclosed that it has thwarted a car loaded with bomb-making material and two AK47 rifles in the state.

Nigeria: Gunmen in the Anambra State have beheaded a lawmaker Okechukwu Okoye, who was representing Governor Chukwuma Soludo's constituency in the state's House of Assembly.

A High Court of Lagos has sentenced Peter Nielsen, aged 54, to death by hanging for the murder of his Nigerian wife and daughter.