Instagram owner Meta says it has removed thousands of accounts in Nigeria that were trying to target people in sextortion schemes. Such scammers typically pose as young women online to trick people into sending sexually […]
German police have arrested 11 Nigerian men suspected of being in a mafia group who orchestrated large-scale dating scams. The Black Axe gang was involved in “multiple areas of criminal activity” globally, Bavarian police said […]
An executive of the cryptocurrency firm Binance has escaped from custody in Nigeria, the authorities there say. Nadeem Anjarwalla, a British-Kenyan dual national, was arrested in February with his US colleague Tigran Gambaryan. Their detention […]
Armed men have shot dead a traditional ruler, and kidnapped his wife plus one other person in south-western Nigeria, authorities say. The attackers stormed the palace of Segun Aremu – a retired army general and […]
A British-Nigerian man has confessed in a US court to defrauding and stealing more than $6m (£4.7m) over seven years. Idris Dayo Mustapha, 33, was part of a hacking ring that infiltrated email and brokerage […]
A wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and their “middleman” have been jailed for an organ-trafficking plot, after bringing a man to the UK from Lagos. Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, wanted […]
Two TikTok stars in Nigeria have been sentenced to a whipping and forced to clean the court after they used social media to mock a government official. Mubarak Isa Muhammed and Muhammed Bula were found […]
Police in Nigeria have rescued 77 people, including children, from a church where they were confined in the south-western state of Ondo. Some of them are believed to have been there for months. A police […]
Kidnappers who had detained some victims of the March attack on the Abuja to Kaduna train in northern Nigeria have released 11 hostages. The spokesman to the cleric acting as go-between for the government and […]
Gunmen who abducted dozens of train passengers in northern Nigeria have released one of the hostages – a heavily pregnant woman. In a video message circulating on social media, the woman said the abductors told […]
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