Eight people have died and 17 others have been injured following a stabbing incident outside a school in eastern China. A 21-year-old man was arrested at Wuxi Yixing Arts and Crafts Vocational and Technical College in the city of Wuxi…
Police arrest owner as dogs kills guard, Driver flees after setting officer on fire, Cleric bags life jail for raping minor and more
What is a city without crime? thisislagos descends into the Lagos underground to search out the baddest guys committing the craziest crimes in LasGidi. Police arrest owner as dogs kill security guard in Lagos (Punch) Operatives of the Lagos Police…
Treason: Nigeria on trial, minors on trial — Promise Adiele
Wole Soyinka’s The Trial of Brother Jero and Ngugi wa Thiongo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi dramatise trial in different, compelling strata through creative literary imagination. While the lead character in Soyinka’s play Brother Jero is confronted with psychological and…
NSCDC arrests POS operator for swindling N500k
The National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested Jeremiah Stephen, 24. Stephen specialises in making fake money transfers upon purchasing goods to unsuspected victims or withdrawing from POS machines. The suspect, arrested in the Michika local government area…
Can men truly forgive anything but cheating?
So I came across this post on X, diary of a naijagirl. Poster narrated a childless marriage of seven years and while he was out of town one day, his wife called to say she was pregnant. The elated husband…
Lagos monarch for arraignment over fraud, fake medical doctor arrested, police stumble on drug den, more
What is a city without crime? thisislagos descends into the Lagos underground to search out the baddest guys committing the craziest crimes in LasGidi. Lagos monarch, others for arraignment over alleged N29m fraud (Punch) The Federal High Court in Lagos,…
Son ‘stabbed mum to death thinking she was a vampire biting him at night’
A man allegedly drove a stake through his mother’s throat believing she was a vampire and was biting him at night. Robert Bruce Poe, 56, was found standing in a driveway covered with blood on his hands and clothing and…
Obaseki orders reaccreditation of over 6,500 vigilante personnel
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has ordered the reaccreditation of all operatives of the State’s Security Vigilante Network, numbering over 6,500, in a renewed effort to strengthen the state’s security architecture to combat crime and ensure the security…
Man allegedly defrauds woman N3.8m
A 50-year-old man, Chinedu Enyeobi, on Monday appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly obtaining N3.8 million under false pretences. The police charged Enyeobi with obtaining by false pretences and stealing by conversion. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty…
Electrician nabbed 2 years after alleged N3OOk fraud, arraigned
A 52-year-old electrician, Obidike Dimkpa, on Friday appeared before an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for alleged N300,000 fraud. The Police slammed a three-count charge on Dimkpa, bordering on obtaining by false pretences and stealing, to which he pleaded not guilty.…