A transgender woman convicted of murder was put to death late Tuesday in the first such execution in the United States, officials said. Amber McLaughlin, 49, was pronounced dead shortly before 7 pm local time at the Diagnostic and Correctional…
Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command have apprehended a 63-year-old Abuja panel beater, Taiwo Ojo over the alleged killing of his colleague, Philip Kura. He was also said to have burnt the corpse of the victim. Ojo allegedly…
A Kano High Court on Thursday sentenced one Sagiru Abdullahi, 29, to death by hanging for stabbing his stepmother Zainab Dan’azumi, 55, to death. The court had earlier convicted Abdullahi of Kurmawa Quarters, Kano, on a one-count charge of culpable…
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned as “heinous and senseless,” the killing of Omobolanle Raheem, a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) shot by an on-duty policeman on Christmas day. According to a statement issued by Garba Shehu, Senior Special…
Police in Lagos State have arrested an Assistance Superintendent of Police (ASP) attached to Ajah Division for allegedly killing a female lawyer on Christmas Day Police spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed the arrest on Monday. He stated two other police…
Investigation revealed that the suspect and his cohort at large, had in the morning hours of the mentioned date, conspired and went to the house of the victim, attempted to make away with her Toyota Corolla key, which she resisted.…
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court Ibadan, on Friday, ordered the remand of one Ajibola Akinpelu, 48, at the Correctional Centre, Ibadan, for alleged armed robbery and murder. Akinpelu, whose residential address was not provided, is being tried on five-count charges bordering…
The United Nations (UN) has expressed sadness over the murder of an aid worker in Damboa, Borno State, on Thursday. A statement on Friday by Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, Matthias Schmale, said the incident was deeply disturbing. The deceased was…
Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo, the state capital, on Friday sentenced one Menim Udoaya to death by hanging or by lethal injection for killing his kinsman, Ben Clement Ben, in Use Ikot Amama, Ibiono Ibom Local Government…
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan on Friday, ordered the remand of four men in a Correctional Centre over alleged kidnapping and murder. Oyetunji Moruf, 50, Raimi Sumbo, 47, Biodun Adeniji, 43 and Suleiman Oladejo, 50, whose residential addresses were not…
