A 24-year-old Adamawa man convicted of stealing Indomie noodles says he shared the loot among his three girlfriends but none visited him in detention as his jail term was reduced to community service.
A new report has accused the Nigerian government of using Wawa Barracks in Niger State as a secret detention and torture facility where hundreds are allegedly held without trial, denied access to lawyers or families, in what activists describe as “genocide by unlawful detention.”
Edo State is pledging to reclaim assets illegally diverted by the past administration and to strengthen public healthcare infrastructure and services.
Pastor Isaac Anderson’s iPhone was stolen mid-sermon during a Facebook Live broadcast in London, exposing the city’s surge in phone snatching.
A rare 3,000-year-old gold bracelet belonging to Pharaoh Amenemope was stolen from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo on September 9, sold through a chain of dealers, then melted down into new jewelry, leading to the arrest and confession of four suspects.
Gold specimens worth $700,000 have been stolen from Paris’s Natural History Museum, in a heist linked to a recent wave of robberies at French cultural institutions.
The family said in a statement: “This case raises serious legal and humanitarian questions. The silence of the British government so far has been disappointing.”
The 15 defendants were charged with conspiracy, armed robbery, and theft of luxury items worth N200 million, including gold jewellery, electronics, and furniture.
“But God told me to go there. He said, ‘If your children can make it, why can’t you? Just go. ..”
“At times, my lecturer would get me angry and say, ‘Go and repeat this page.’”