The eight schoolgirls abducted by bandits early April in Nigeria’s North West Kaduna state have escaped from their abductors. The students of Government Secondary School, Awon in Kacha local government area were kidnapped by terrorists on April 3, 2023. Mr. Samuel Aruwan, the Kaduna Commissioner for Internal Security and Home …
Read More »Nigerian ‘scammer’ surrenders luxury cars, US$8m in proceeds to US government
Mr. Woodberry, also known as Jacob Ponle, a close associate of notorious internet fraudster Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi, has admitted to engaging in wire fraud. In a plea declaration filed on April 6, 2023, at the US District Court of the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, Mr. …
Read More »Nigerian trader jailed for six years by Ghana court over human trafficking
A Nigerian trader who trafficked two Nigerian women to Ghana and compelled them to engage in prostitution has been sentenced to six years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Favour Chikadia, charged with two counts of human trafficking, pleaded not guilty. The court, however, found Chikadia guilty at the end …
Read More »Nigerian politician, wife and doctor convicted for trafficking human organs in UK
A popular Nigerian politician; Ike Ekweremadu, has been convicted together with his wife and a doctor for engaging in organ trafficking. The 60-year-old former deputy president of the Nigerian senate, his wife; 56, and the said doctor; Dr. Obinna Obeta; 51, are said to have conspired to facilitate the travel …
Read More »Nigerian man sentenced to life imprisonment for murder of South African artist
The Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday, March 13, 2023, sentenced a 37-year-old Nigerian national, Onyeghani Ekene Dumkele, to life imprisonment for the murder of Limpopo artist, Shaun-Doughlas Chabalala, 23. Sunnyside police spokesperson, Captain Daniel Mavimbela said Chabalala was robbed inside the seventh-floor residential unit and then forcefully thrown …
Read More »Why some Nigerian men keep ‘side chicks’
Some residents in Benin, the Edo capital, have said that some Nigerian men would continue to keep mistresses, popularly called ‘side chicks,’ due to their perceived benefits. The respondents’ submissions arise from the growing reports of infidelity in the lives of men, especially the highly placed celebrities in society. Some …
Read More »Nigerian music manager stabbed in the UK for his ‘£300,000 watch’
Emmanuel Odunlami, a Nigerian-born music manager was stabbed to death after celebrating his birthday with a designer watch worth up to £300,000, a London court heard. The 32-year-old was attacked by three robbers after he left the Haz restaurant located in the city of London on May 1, 2022. The …
Read More »VIDEO: ‘I’ll use juju to fight you’ – South Africa-based Nigerian pastor tells wife
A South Africa-based Nigerian pastor, Dr Roland, has threatened to use juju to battle his South African wife Thuli Da Angel after she requested a divorce for an unclear reason. In the video that Thuli posted, Roland was heard indicating that he would not sign the divorce papers that she …
Read More »VIDEO: Most wanted Nigerian mafia woman leader who ran prostitution ring extradited to Italy
A Nigerian woman who has been wanted in Italy since 2010 has been flown from Abuja back to Rome, Italian police said in a statement on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Joy Jeff, 48, was tried in absentia in 2010 and sentenced to 13 years in jail for criminal conspiracy, slavery, people …
Read More »Two Nigerian nationals arrested at Mumbai airport with 167 cocaine pellets in stomach
Two Nigerian nationals have been arrested at the Mumbai airport for trying to smuggle in cocaine worth nearly Rs 30 crore packed in capsules ingested by them, an official from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) said on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Acting on intelligence inputs, DRI officials intercepted two …
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