Five South African policemen arraigned in court on Friday for robbing a Nigerian man of the sum of 61,000 US Dollars. Four of the accused have since been dismissed from the police service over the incident and are also being prosecuted following an investigation by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate, IPID. The five former policemen […]
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Kingsley Ikeri, a businessman from Imo state, has been killed in Vryheid town in Kwazulu Natal province, according to to the Nigeria union in South Africa. Ikeri, 27, was reportedly killed on Wednesday. Bartholomew Eziagulu, chairman of the union in the province told NAN, that the businessman was allegedly tortured to death by police officers. […]
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American agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has declared one Kelechi Declan James, a Nigerian, wanted for emails scam. The information was made known in a statement by the New York office office of the agency. It said the suspect along with four other co-conspirators, ran a business e-mail compromise scheme that resulted victim […]
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Germany has deported to Nigeria an alleged Islamic extremist, an ISIS suspect, deemed dangerous by authorities. He is a German citizen, not Nigerian. The German news agency, dpa, reports that the 22-year-old man, who was born in Germany and who had not committed a crime, arrived in Lagos Thursday. The unidentified man was one of […]
Continue ReadingFranca Asemota, a 38-year-old female trafficking boss was sentenced to 22 years in prison on Thursday for using the threat of witchcraft to exert control over almost 40 women and girls brought from Nigeria to Europe for sex work, a British court prosecutor said. She was found guilty of conspiracy to traffic persons for sexual exploitation, […]
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Reports have confirmed that a Nigerian was among the 10 people that died in a fire that engulfed parts of a residential compound in the Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich east, a Saudi official said. The Nigerian has not been identified. The inferno began early Sunday in a sprawling, multistory housing complex in the city of Khobar […]
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