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A 27-year-old Nigerian woman has been sentenced to three years imprisonment in United Arab Emirates to be followed by deportation for luring a Pakistani man into a fake massage parlour and stealing his money. It was gathered that the…

A 44-year-old Nigerian national, Umunna Ndubuisi Williams has been arrested by Anti-Narcotic Cell (ANC) in Mumbai, India. One hundred and ten grams of cocaine worth Rs 33 lakh (N18,167,990.30) was recovered from him. According to ANC…

A 31-year-old Nigerian national, Christian Chibuike Emmanuel and two Thais nationals have been arrested after packages containing crystal methamphetamine were found hidden in mattresses ready for shipment to Hong Kong. Kornwik Jirabutr,…

A brave social media influencer has lost her life after falling off a waterfall while trying to take a selfie. On Saturday, July 10, 32 years old Sofia Cheung, fell 16 feet to her death into the Tsing Dai stream near Yuen Long, Hong…

A Nigerian national, Robinson Ibuka Ade accused of romance scam is currently in custody after trying to run from police by jumping out of a third-story window in Pattaya, Thailand. The suspect and a Thai female national, Thidarat…

Three Nigerian nationals, including a child, have been arrested in Sylhet for illegally entering Bangladesh from India. The detainees have been identified as Emmanuel Nnamdi Ohagwam, 42, his 3-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Favour…

Philippine security forces searched among coconut trees on a remote southern island Monday for the flight data boxes of an aircraft that crashed and killed 50 people on Sunday. It is the country’s worst military air disaster in decades…

Three Nigerian nationals were arrested with narcotic drugs, including cocaine worth Rs 25 lakh, in Maharashtra's Thane district, India on Friday. Acting on a tip-off, officials of the Mira-Bhayander-Vasai-Virar (MBVV) Police raided a…

In Bang Khun Khunthian district of Bangkok, Thailand, Paschal Nwaenyi, a 38-year-old Nigerian man has been apprehended with 7,000 ecstasy pills. Police captured Paschal Nwaeny in front of a building at the Eua-arthon 2 housing estate in…

A Nigerian, Adetola David Gbolahan and his Malaysian wife, Sopiah Jamaludin were charged at the Ampang magistrate's court in Kuala Lumpur with illegally transferring RM4,080 belonging to a man. The couple however, pleaded not guilty when…

Six Nigerian men and a Malaysian woman believed to be members of a syndicate involved in love scams have been arrested by the police. Malaysian Police arrested the suspects aged between 33 and 42 during two raids around Kajang in Kuala…

A 31-year-old Nigerian national, Onyebuchukwu Stanley Egwu has been arrested for allegedly sneaking into Bangladesh illegally from India. Egwu was arrested by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Sylhet, a city in eastern Bangladesh on…

Ho Van Lang, "real-life Tarzan" didn't know that women existed for 41 years before he was discovered living in the jungle away from civilisation. The 49-year-old man, now lives with his father in a small Vietnamese village eight years…

At least 18 people, mostly children, were killed and 16 others injured when a deadly fire ripped through a boarding martial arts school in China's Henan province in the early hours of Friday. The children, aged between seven and 16, were…

A Nigerian national, Stanley Chima and one Mohammed Rameez of Uppala in Kasaragod district of Kerala have been arrested in connection with two cases of drug trafficking in Bengaluru, India. The accused, who were arrested on Monday, June…

A 41-year-old Singaporean woman identified as Gaiyathiri Murugayan has been jailed for 30 years for torturing her housemaid to death. According to NAN, she was sentenced on Tuesday for her part in the torture and death of a domestic…

41-year-old Nigerian man, Ejimadu Uchechukwu Benjamin and a local woman have been arrested in Thailand after allegedly found in possession of cocaine. Secretary-General of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board, Wichai Chaimongkol…

40-year-old Ali Abdullah al-Noami has been publicly executed in Yemen after being found guilty of murdering his three daughters. The man left his three daughters Rahaf, 7, Raghad, 12, and Malak, 14, to drown in a water tank after a row…

For partaking in an anti-government protests at the age of 17, a 26-year-old man in Saudi Arabia has reportedly been put to death. The deceased known as Mustafa al-Darwish was executed despite promises from the desert kingdom that the…

Villagers in Yothaka, in Thailand’s Chachoengsao province, ended a period of drought by building a giant erect penis statue. Farmers in the area had been concerned that there hadn’t been enough rain recently and that water from…

A Nigerian and a Libyan national have been arrested three months after they allegedly stole two SUVs from a Kia showroom at Kogilu Cross, Bengaluru, India. The accused identified as Ofen Michael aka John Nero,25, from Nigeria and his…

Three Nigerian nationals have been arrested in Delhi, India for illegally staying in the country without valid documents. A statement posted by the Dwarka Police on Wednesday, June 2, said that the Nigerians were found to be living…

A bride identified as Surabhi, died of heart attack at the venue of her wedding and the ceremony continued with the groom marrying the dead bride's younger sister in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India. The families laid her body in the room…

A Delhi Police constable was injured in an attack while trying to arrest two Nigerian nationals based on a tip-off that they were drug peddlers, officials said on Sunday. WITHIN NIGERIA gathered that the incident took place in west…