A Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Thursday sentenced one Emmanuel Obinna, 20, to one-year imprisonment for stealing a cell phone, wristwatch and N13, 000 cash from other guests at a hotel.

Three suspected internet fraudsters that allegedly impersonated music maestro, King Sunny Ade, and fleeced unsuspecting members of the public of over N3.1 million have been arrested by the police in Lagos.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, has arrested seven suspected Internet fraudsters for offences bordering on conspiracy, possession of fraudulent documents, attempt to obtain money under false pretences and obtaining money under false pretences.

Scores of residents were seen yesterday falling on each other to scoop kerosene from a tanker that fell along Portharcourt road at the Hospital junction in Owerri, Imo state.

The two men in the motorised wooden canoe look around warily as they leave a towering shipwreck in the Lagos lagoon, with the barrels of oil on board barely concealed under rags.

A man, Samson Offia arrested by police for allegedly manufacturing adulterated alcoholic beverages and liquors have blamed economic hardship for his action.

The Police in Abia on Sunday confirmed the murder of a young man, Ugochukwu Mbadi by hired killers in Aba, the commercial hub of the state.

My mum called me to say she was sick and was in hospital. I had to go there to give her money for drugs and that was when the police arrested me. I feel very sad and regret killing people

Nigerians now sleep with one eye closed, not knowing who is going to be the next victim of armed robbery, kidnapping or ritual killing

An unkind fate recently visited 67-year-old Mrs Olufunke Odebiyi, whose only son, Kolade Johnson, had life snuffed out of him, by a bullet from the riffle of one Inspector Ogunyemi Olalekan, who was attached to the Anti-Crime Unit of the Lagos State Police Command.