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Nollywood actress, Tonto Dike has set the record straight on the feud she had with some security authorities in Dubai sometime last year. Reports of the actress being arrested and deported from Dubai after her scuffle with…

Tory Lanez has been arrested by police officers after finding a gun in his car during a night out with Megan Thee Stallion. Lanez was arrested following a disturbance outside a house party in the Hollywood Hills in the early morning…

Gambian actress, Princess Shyngle has announced the loss of her pregnancy while her husband is in jail. In the fourth episode of her ‘Discovering Princess Shyngle’ vlog, she revealed that she found out she had lost her baby after waking…

A series of complicated financial scams otherwise known as fraud  have been linked by the FBI  to an organized crime ring that started as a neighborly organization. It started  with some complaint about clever check fraud scams that…

The police in Ibadan on Wednesday arraigned a 27- year old scavenger, Akeem Mustapha, for allegedly stealing a generator alternator from a Church. Mustapha, who resides at E5/75 Isale-Alfa area of Ibadan, is charged with two counts of…

Nigerian Artiste, Johnson Oyindamola, popularly known by stage name,  Dammy Krane risks three years jail time after his arraignment today. Newsmen gathered reports that the Amin Crooner got into serious trouble after Merrybet Gold filed…

A 25-year-old tailor, Tunde Igba, was on Monday brought before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos over alleged possession of a locally-made gun and some charms. Igba, who is also suspected to be a member of an unlawful society,…

U.S. rapper ASAP Rocky is to remain in pre-trial detention in Sweden after the country’s top court on Monday rejected his appeal, Swedish media reports. The 30-year-old, whose given name is Rakim Mayers, was on Friday placed in pre-trial…

A Ugandan lecturer who practices feminism has been sent to prison following a poem she wrote and shared in September, last year. The lecturer, Stella Nyanzi had titled the poem “Vagina”, using it as an allegory to the alleged oppression…

A Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Tuesday sentenced an internet fraudster, Temitope Charles, to 35 years in prison without an option of fine. The Presiding Judge, Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar, while delivering Judgement on a criminal…

The Nigeria Police Force, through its Lagos State Spokesperson, DSP Bala Elkana, has issued a stern warning to citizens who purchase stolen phones. According to Bala, when such persons are caught, the law permits that they spend up to…

A homeless Romanian woman has been arrested in Sicily for forcing her 13-year-old daughter into prostitution, in return for which she would obtain money, cigarettes, drinks, the use of a shower or a place to sleep. In a statement,…

An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a 43-year-old man, Chukwuma Smart, in prison for allegedly having canal knowledge of his neighbour’s 10-year-old daughter. The Chief Magistrate, Olufunke Sule-Amzat, who did not take…

An Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Friday ordered the remand of one Femi Aderounmu in prison for allegedly beating a teenager to death. Aderounmu, 29, who resides at No. 1, Moshalasi St., Iponri, Lagos is facing a charge of…

A 25-year-old carpenter, Zaradeen Usman, on Friday  begged a Karmo Grade I Area Court not to send him to jail because he will not steal again. Usman, whose address was given, pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal trespass and theft.…

Indonesia’s former Social Minister Idrus Marham received on Tuesday a 3-year imprisonment sentence as he was proved guilty for receiving a bribe amounting to 169,600 dollars. He received the bribe from a businessman in order to obtain a…

A Belgrade Court on Friday sentenced four former secret service officials to long term imprisonment for the murder of Radovan Karadzic, a journalist, 20 years ago. The former state security chief, Radomir Markovic, and the head of the…

President of The United States of America, Donald Trump, has weighed in on the current trial being faced by Michael Cohen, a lawyer who once worked with him. Trump believes that the attempt to get him to confess in a bid to indict him is…

Recently released activist, Deji Adeyanju who was released after spending 78 days behind bars, has stated that the many weeks he spent there has only given him “Vitamin C”, making him feel refreshed and re-energized. He went ahead to…

An Ilorin Magistrate Court on Thursday sentenced Mr Sodiq Habeeb to two months imprisonment for house-breaking and theft. The Magistrate, Mrs Molara Idiagbon, who convicted the man, who resides at Ile Magaji Ngeri, Surulere area of…

A 31-year-old convict, Mathew Ajayi, on Thursday  begged a Karmo Grade I Area Court not to send him to jail because he will not steal again. Ajayi pleaded guilty to two counts of house breaking and stealing. “ I will not steal again.…

Former Arsenal and Denmark striker Nicklas Bendtner has been sentenced to jail for 50 days in jail, over an assault case His case is still pending appeal and he left the Copenhagen city courtroom a free man-- for now. The former…

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says no fewer than 262 journalists were jailed in 2017 for “doing their work”. The group said at an event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Friday that journalists were regularly…

Bill Cosby is due to be sentenced for his sexual assault conviction from earlier this year in a two-day proceeding starting on Monday. The 81-year-old star of The Cosby Show was found guilty in April of drugging and sexually assaulting…

An Upper Area Court, sitting in Kasuwan Nama in Jos, on Thursday sentenced Aminu Abubakar and Bashir Mohammed to two years imprisonment each for theft. Abubakar,19, and Mohammed, 22, a student and welder, had pleaded guilty to a…