A British nurse was found guilty Friday of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill six others at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked, becoming the UK’s most prolific child killer. Lucy Letby, 33, had been on trial since October last year, accused of either injecting her sick or premature young victims ...

The family of the late former Head of State, Gen. Murtala Muhammed, has expressed profound discontent with the prosecution of murder trials in Nigeria, urging the National Assembly to enact a legal framework for seamless prosecution. The family expressed this in a statement on Tuesday in remembrance of their son and brother, Zackari Muhammed, a ...

Sheriff’s authorities on Tuesday reported that a three-year-old baby shot and killed a one-year-old sibling with a handgun that had been left unsecured in a home in San Diego California. It was not immediately clear who reported the shooting or where the children’s parents were at the time of the incident. Authorities said deputies in ...

Egyptian prison authorities on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, executed a man sentenced to death for the premeditated murder of his fellow student who turned down his advances. In a case that sparked national outrage in Egypt, Mohamed Adel was found guilty last year for the premeditated murder of fellow student Nayera Ashraf after he confessed ...

A Kano High Court number 17 sitting at Miller road has adjourned the hearing of Chinese national, Geng Quangrong, accused of killing his Nigerian lover, Ummukulsum Sani Buhari, over absence of interpreter. Mr Quandong, 47, allegedly murdered Ummukulsum, 23, at Janbalu quarters for allegedly refusing his hand in marriage. Absence of interpreter stalls trial of ...

Alex Mardaugh has been charged with murder in connection to the killings of his wife and son. Murdaugh, the fourth-generation lawyer whose family has long held power and influence in South Carolina, was charged on Thursday, July 14, with killing his wife and one of his sons at the family’s secluded hunting estate in a ...

A Lagos High Court sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square of Lagos Island on Friday, 20th May sentenced a Danish man, Peter Nielsen, to death by hanging for killing his Nigerian wife, Zainab and his three-and-a-half-year-old daughter. Justice Bolanle Okikiolu-Ighile gave the five-hour-long verdict, according to Channels television. The presiding judge, Justice Bolanle Okikiolu-Ighile, found the ...

An online petition seeking justice for a female student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education in‪ Sokoto State, identified simply as Deborah, has been launched after she was killed for allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad (SAW). It reported how Deborah was violently stoned to death and later set ablaze by the angry mob, who are ...

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has taken over the prosecution of the murder case of Timothy Adegoke, a Master’s student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. This was made known in a statement by the Osun State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Oluwafemi Akande, who revealed that the chamber of Femi Falana (SAN) ...

A lawyer identified as Honey G. Evarist has revealed the inhumane and humiliating treatment that was meted out on late singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu by her husband, Peter Nwachukwu. The legal practitioner who claimed to be live at the Police Command, Abuja where Osinachi’s husband was with their 4 children disclosed that the man holds down ...

Burkina Faso’s exiled former president, Blaise Compaore, was convicted of the murder of Thomas Sankara, the iconic African leader killed in a coup more than three decades ago. A military tribunal found Compaore, who ruled the West African nation for 27 years until his ouster in a popular uprising in 2014, guilty of complicity in ...

Family members of a deceased Legal Practitioner want the Federal government, the Inspector General of Police and the Akwa Ibom State Government to investigate an alleged conspiracy surrounding his death. Before his demise, Godwin Ikoiwak was a State Prosecutor at the Ministry of Justice in Akwa Ibom State. Mr Ikoiwak’s Family members, as well as ...

A 14-year-old babysitter, Chiamaka Odo, has confessed to killing her mistress’ son, Jayden Osokolo, in Lagos State. Speaking on behalf of the state Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi, the spokesperson for the command, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said Odo strangled Jayden. He stated this on Monday while parading Odo alongside other suspects arrested in connection with ...

A 26-year-old Kenyan woman Damackline Bonareri was stabbed to death by her estranged 28-year-old lover after a wrangle that had escalated. The  woman had left her home where she had been living with her lover in Narok to visit her sister in the Nakuru County town. Brian Jomo, her lover, allegedly followed her hoping to ...

A high court sitting in Akamkpa, Cross River, has sentenced one Ayanime Udo to death for killing his twin daughters. On January 10, 2017, Udo was said to have poisoned his 11-year old twin daughters — Mfoniso and Emediong — by giving them a malt drink mixed with acid from his motorcycle over allegation that ...

The Kano State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Musa Lawan, on Thursday, confirmed that the national headquarters of the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria had expressed readiness to provide legal representation for Abdulmalik Tanko, the prime suspect in the murder of a five-year-old pupil, Hanifa Abubakar, and his two accomplices and not the Kano State ...