A court in Busan, South Korea, on Wednesday sentenced two employees of the Liberia Maritime Authority (LiMA) to nine years in prison each for sexual assault, local media report. Moses Owen Brown and Daniel Tarr had been detained in South Korea since last year for allegedly raping two Korean teenagers, …
Read More »Falling bridge killed student at Gomoa
A 17-year-old boy has met his untimely death after a dilapidated abandoned bridge fell on him and killed him at Gomoa Nyanyano in the Central region, Ghana. The deceased was returning from school when the bridge broke and trapped him. “He got hit by a huge slab killing him instantly,” …
Read More »Police arrested cultists terrorizing Ogun state
24 suspects were arrested for alleged involvement in cultism, armed robbery, terrorism and other criminal activities in the Ogun state, Nigeria. “The suspects confessed to being members of the Eiye, Vikings and Aiye confraternities,” according to the state Police Public, Abimbola Oyeyemi. “The arrest of the suspects followed the recent …
Read More »Man sentenced to six years in prison for illegal export
A Federal High Court in Lagos State in Nigeria has sentenced a 49-year-old businessman to six years imprisonment for illegally exporting 9.40kg of cocaine, reports said. “The convict was arrested on March 4, 2023, during the outward clearance of passengers of a Qatar Airways flight to India via Doha, at …
Read More »Rooster loses court battle over noise complaint
A Nigerian court has given the owner of a noisy rooster until Friday to slaughter it after a noise pollution complaint by neighbours, local media reported. The court in the northern city of Kano declared the cockerel a nuisance to the neighborhood for its relentless crowing that two neighbours said …
Read More »Gunmen abducted students in northwest Nigeria
At least 10 students from the Government Secondary School in Kaduna state were abducted during an attack in northwest Nigeria, reports said. “The exact location of the incident is yet to be ascertained but detailed reports being awaited will clarify whether the incident occurred within the school premises or elsewhere,” …
Read More »Man strangles pregnant girlfriend to death
Men of the Kano State Police Command have arrested a man for strangling his 22-year-old pregnant girlfriend in Tudun-Wada Local Government Area of the state, Nigeria, reports said. “We received information from a Good Samaritan that a lady was seen lying on the roadside, unconscious on Kano-Jos Road in Anadaria …
Read More »A man arrested for defiling a nine-month-old baby
An Ikeja Chief Magistrate Court has remanded a 27-year-old man for defiling a nine-month-old baby belonging to a neighbor in the Ijora-Badia area of Lagos, Nigeria. “The 16-year-old mother of the baby had her child in the care of the suspect to buy noodles not too far from her home,” …
Read More »Farmer jailed 20 years for sexually abusing 6-year-old girl
A 26-year-old farmer has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for abusing a six-year-old girl at Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana, reports said. “The victim had gone to play with her friends at where the suspect lived,” reports said. The suspect lured the victim into his room, undressed the victim and …
Read More »Gunmen killed a 43-year-old man in River State
Unknown gunmen dressed in police uniform shot and killed a man at Rumuokoro Junction in the Obio, Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria, reports said. “The deceased, a volunteer traffic warden, was controlling traffic in Rumuokoro, an outskirt of Port Harcourt before the incident,” reports said. He was …
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