Category: Crime

China hands death sentences to 11 members of mafia family over billion-dollar scam empire

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A Chinese court has sentenced to death 11 members of a notorious family that ran scam centers in Myanmar, according to Chinese state media. Dozens of members of the Ming family were found guilty of conducting criminal activities, with many receiving lengthy jail sentences. The Ming family worked for one of the four clans that ran Myanmar’s sleepy backwater town of Laukkaing, close to the border with China, and turned it into a hub for gambling, drugs and scam centres. Myanmar eventually cracked down, arresting many members of these families…

Police vow to find killers of Arise TV journalist, launch investigation.

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The federal capital territory (FCT), Police Commissioner, Ajao Adewale, has ordered a “discreet” investigation into the armed robbery incident that led to the death of Somtochukwu Maduagwu, a news anchor and producer with Arise Television. Monday, 29th September armed robbers invaded the residence of Somtochukwu, popularly known as Sommie, located at Kamtape area of Abuja, the nation’s capital. She was reportedly jumped from her apartment in the four-storey building during the armed robbery incident. The deceased and the security guard, who was injured during the incident, died in the hospital.…

President Tinubu condemns Arise TV anchor’s death, orders probe

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR has mourned Somtochukwu Christelle Maduagwu, a news anchor and producer with Arise Television. The journalist died on Sunday in an armed robbery incident at her residence in the Katampe district of Abuja, the Federal Capital. In a statement released on Tuesday by Bayo Onanuga, the President’s special adviser on information and strategy, said he received the news of Maduagwu’s passing with “deep sorrow”. “Ms Maduagwu was a promising professional journalist whose life was cut short in a cruel and condemnable manner,” Tinubu said. “Security and…

DISMISSED NIGERIAN SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR MURDERING DRIVER

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Justice Bassey Nkanang, ofhigh court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom, has sentenced Stephen Iweh, a dismissed soldier, to death by hanging for the murder of a Port Harcourt-based clearing and forwarding manager. Iweh, was a corporal with the Nigerian Army’s 6 Battalion, Ibagwa in Abak, was convicted of killing 42-year-old Christopher Enobong Jimmy after the victim offered him a lift on May 23, 2021. The court heard that Jimmy met Iweh at the Trailer Park in Onne, Rivers state, and agreed to give him a lift in his Toyota Matrix to…

FIVE EX-SENIOR POLICE OFFICERS TO BE ARRAIGNED FOR ALLEGED AGE FRAUD. 

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The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has filed charges against five retired senior Police officers for allegedly falsifying their ages to unlawfully extend their service years. The case, brought before the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) high court, has been assigned to Yusuf Halilu, a judge, who has fixed Thursday, September 25, for the arraignment of the defendants.  The retired Police Chiefs are to face 14-count charge lists: Idowu Owohunwa, a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police; Benneth Igwe and Ukachi Opara, both retired Commissioners of Police; Obo Ukam Obo, a…

FBI investigating after 1 killed, 2 wounded in shooting at Dallas ICE facility

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Sooth News has learned that at least one person has died and two others have sustained injuries after being shot by a suspect sniper at an immigration facility in Texas, according to officials. According to the BBC, on Wednesday, ’’the shooter is also dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after the incident in Dallas, said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The attack unfolded on Wednesday morning at a detention centre for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The incident follows a string of attacks on ICE facilities across the US…

BAUCHI STEPMOTHER BRUTALLY BURNS 5-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN HORRIFIC CHILD ABUSE CASE.

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By: Bashir Hassan Abubakar Barely few weeks after a viral story of a housewife in Magama Gumau of Toro LGA of Bauchi State burning the private of a 12-year-old girl for accusing her of alleged involvement in witchcraft, another housewife, Rabi Nuhu, in the same Magama Gumau has allegedly brutalised the body of a five-year-old girl for bed wetting. It was gathered that the girl, a minor, (name withheld) has lost her mother about a year ago and lives with her father, Mohammed Umar and his wife but has been…

NIGERIAN ARMY COURT-MARTIALS 3 SOLDIERS TO DEATH FOR ARMING TERRORISTS

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Nigerian Army special court-martial has convicted four soldiers for illegal arms trade and aiding terrorists in the north-east. The trial, convened by Ugochukwu Unachukwu, a brigadier general and acting general officer commanding 7 division and commander of sector 1, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), was held at the officers’ mess, Theatre Command Headquarters in Maiduguri, Borno State. Delivering judgment, Mohammed Abdullahi, a brigadier general and president of the court-martial, sentenced Raphael Ameh, a sergeant; Ejiga Musa, a sergeant and Patrick Ocheje, a lance corporal, to life imprisonment. Omitoye Rufus, a corporal,…

WANTED ABUJA BANDITS KILLED IN SHOOTOUT WITH SECURITY FORCES.

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The Police Command of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has confirmed how notorious bandits who operated in the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Abuja, met their deaths. Addressing the press at the command headquarters in Abuja, on Friday, CP Adewale Ajao revealed how an official of the FCTA was rescued after he was abducted by the bandits, saying the command received a distress call on September 17, 2025, at about 10:23 pm after some group of bandits struck in Karu and whisked away the victim. Nafiu Idris, a staff member of…

POLICE ARREST TRANSPORT UNION LEADER OVER DISPATCH RIDER’S DEATH; COMMISSIONER VISITS SCENE

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Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 55-year-old man, Shamsideen Oladiti, a National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) leader on Lagos Island, popularly known as Shameleon, over allegations of assault and murder. According to the command, Oladiti is currently being held at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Panti-Yaba, where inconspicuous investigations into the two cases are ongoing. It was reported that on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, at about 3:00 p.m., the suspect allegedly attacked a dispatch rider in Lagos Island, using a helmet and fists to inflict serious injuries.…