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A Nigerian national who previously worked as a care worker has been sentenced to eight years in prison for a string of burglaries and robberies that targeted elderly and disabled people in Liverpool, including some he had looked after. Ediongseyene Essien appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday, 28 August, where he received three years for burglary and five years for robbery, to run consecutively. As a foreign national he is expected to serve 30 per cent of the term before being deported. A restraining order was also imposed to protect his six victims. Essien’s employment as a carer ended…

A film producer who says she helped salvage the low-budget horror movie Obsession has filed a lawsuit claiming she was denied the compensation and profit share she was promised. Leonora Ann Darby sued Tea Shop Productions and its executives James Harris and Mark Lane in Los Angeles Superior Court on August 28, alleging breach of contract and years of unequal treatment. In the 10-count complaint, Darby states she joined the company in 2019 when it was struggling. Harris and Lane allegedly offered her an equal producer role that included a stake in compensation, input on company direction and projects, financial…

A 45-year-old taxi driver based in the United Kingdom has been sentenced to six years in prison after he dozed off at the wheel and struck a man who had stopped in a lay-by, killing him. Kolawole Erunkulu, from Bexleyheath, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving. The crash occurred on 17 August 2025. Erunkulu was driving an Audi when he experienced a brief microsleep. His vehicle left the road and collided with 59-year-old Philip Dray, who was getting into his Volkswagen after taking a rest break. Erunkulu had been working for roughly 12 hours that day with only…

A Nigerian Bar Association delegation, joined by relatives of Anthony Obodo, met the Rivers State Commissioner of Police on Monday, 31 August 2026, to demand a full investigation into Obodo’s death four days earlier. Obodo, who was shot by Nigerian Police Force officers, died on Thursday, 27 August 2026, under circumstances that have raised concern among his family and the public. The group included NBA National Publicity Secretary Dr. Prince I. Azubuike, Port Harcourt Branch Chairman Dr. Chinedu Maduba, other branch executive members, and members of the Obodo family. They first met the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of…

A Las Vegas jury has found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of first-degree murder in the long-unsolved killing of rapper Tupac Shakur. The 63-year-old former South Side Compton Crips leader was convicted Monday after an 11-day trial in Clark County, Nevada. Jurors deliberated for nearly three hours before returning the verdict on a single count of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon. Prosecutors argued that Davis ordered the drive-by shooting that fatally wounded Shakur on September 7, 1996. According to the prosecution, the attack followed a confrontation hours earlier at a Las Vegas casino in which members of Shakur’s entourage…

A lawyer representing the Ilorin Heritage Preservation Foundation has called indigenous Yoruba religion advocate Abdulazeez Adegbola, known as Tani Olohun, and Yoruba Nation campaigner Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho, “criminals” for allegedly interfering with a police operation to arrest Tani Olohun in Ibadan. The remarks came as a related court matter was adjourned to 15 September 2026 for hearing of a preliminary objection. Speaking in a video about Tuesday’s proceedings, the lawyer said the foundation urged the court not to consider Tani Olohun’s preliminary objection because he and others had defied an existing court order for his arrest. “We…

Singer D4vd, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, is now represented by the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office after his high-profile private attorneys withdrew from the case. The 21-year-old musician appeared in a Los Angeles court on Monday and entered not-guilty pleas to charges linked to the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Hernandez’s remains were discovered in September 2025 inside a Tesla connected to an address associated with Burke. Prosecutors have charged him with first-degree murder, mutilation of human remains and child sexual abuse. The murder count includes a special circumstance allegation of financial gain, which could…

Lawyers representing Nigerian musician Tochukwu Gubemi Ojogwu, known as OdumoduBlvck, have formally petitioned the Lagos State Police Command over what they describe as an attempted arrest of their client in the early hours of 29 August 2026. In a petition dated 31 August 2026, the firm Marshal Attorneys wrote to the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Criminal Investigation Department. They stated that officers of the Nigeria Police Force arrived at the musician’s location at about 3:00am carrying an invitation letter said to have been issued by the Lagos State Police Command. The legal team said the…

Natacha Akide, better known as Tacha, has been reported arrested by the Nigeria Police Force at her residence in Lagos. The arrest allegedly took place in the early hours of Sunday, 30 August 2026, after she failed to respond to repeated invitations from the police. Media entrepreneur Seun Oloketuyi announced the development in an Instagram post. According to him, the National Cybercrime Centre of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF-NCCC) had issued three invitations to Tacha between May and August 2026. She did not honour any of them. Oloketuyi wrote: “Tacha has been arrested today by NPF. Arrested early this morning…

Senior officers of the Nigerian Bar Association visited the family of Anthony Obodo in Port Harcourt on Sunday, 30 August 2026, offering condolences and pledging to monitor the investigation into his death. Obodo, 22, a Computer Science graduate of the University of Port Harcourt who was awaiting his National Youth Service Corps posting, died from gunshot injuries in an incident involving police officers in the city. The association described the death as extra-judicial. The visit was ordered by NBA President Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN. The delegation was led by Second Vice President Nuhu Egya and Third Vice President Iniobong Irene…