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In October 2020, LGBT activists also used the End SARS protests in Nigeria to demand an end to marginalization of the LGBT community in Nigeria. [20] The Kano State Hisbah Corps arrested 12 young men in January 2015 in Kano on suspicion of planning a same-sex wedding. The men denied it, saying they were planning a friend's birthday party.
A Nigerian man in Texas has been arrested in connection with what federal authorities say was a romance fraud scheme that netted more than $3.3 million.. Agents with the Federal Bureau of ...
The Gombe 76 was a case of mass arrest which occurred in Gombe, a state in the North Eastern region of Nigeria. The raid and arrest were carried out by members of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corp . The security operatives in a realized statement said the arrest was made following a tip-off on a same-sex birthday party and a planned ...
In May 2023, indictments were issued against Samuel and Samson Ogoshi, brothers from Lagos, Nigeria. [1] They were arrested by Nigerian police in January 2023. On July 20, 2023, a judge ordered that they be turned over to the United States and on August 3, 2023, the Solicitor-General of Nigeria signed the surrender order. [1]
A Nigerian senator and his wife were remanded in custody in London on Thursday charged with plotting to have a 15-year-old boy brought into the United Kingdom to harvest his organs, the BBC and ...
A wealthy Nigerian couple plotted to bring a poor street trader to the UK to harvest his kidney for their daughter in exchange for up to £7,000 and the promise of a better life, a court has heard.
The suspect, Aaron Glee Jr., who was 49 at the time of the murders, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and felony murder among other charges. He pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and kidnapping to avoid the death penalty, which the prosecution sought. However, Glee was sentenced to life in prison on September 22, 2023.
Nigeria's anti-graft agency said it had arrested 792 suspects in a raid on a building believed to be a hub for fraudsters who lured victims with offers of romance, then pressed them to hand over ...