Two Nigerian nationals were arrested by the Gurgaon cyber crime police for allegedly posing as company directors on WhatsApp and tricking employees into transferring money to their bank accounts, officials said.
Police identified the accused asOjo Uyiosa and James. The arrests were made by the cyber crime police (East), Gurgaon, on Saturday from the S-Block area of Nathupur following the analysis of a suspicious phone number used in the crime.
Uyiosa first came to India in 2014 on a student visa, while James entered the country in 2023 on a tourist visa, police said. The two, along with other Nigerian nationals, allegedly impersonated directors of companies and convinced employees to urgently transfer money, which was later shared among the group.
Police claimed round ₹10 lakh was transferred into a Bandhan Bank account as part of the fraud, and two cyber crime complaints were already registered against the same account.
During the interrogation and based on the evidence collected, it emerged that the accused were involved in multiple cyber fraud incidents using the same modus operandi. Following the arrests, a case was registered against the accused and they were produced before a court on Sunday, which sent them to three days of police custody.
Police said the accused primarily used WhatsApp for communication, while their associates arranged bank accounts to receive the defrauded money. Police recovered two phones and three SIM cards used in the crime. Officials said efforts were on to trace additional recoveries, identify other members of the gang, and uncover the full extent of the fraud.
It is stolen money. Criminals don't pay tax on stolen money. Think before you embarass yourself by making ignorant statements. She was arrested for stealing all the money with her accomplices. None of the charges against her was for tax evasion or she would have received a much longer sentence.
Exousiang01: That money is not as you see it. That's why many of you run away and come here to start disturbing us.
Don't be deceived. Tax takes up about half of that money and the bills will swallow the rest.
Many Nigerians who came to the UK in the last couple years are wishing they stayed back and invested the money most especially those without skills.
How much did you think Anthony Joshua took home after his last match
He won 92million tax took about 66million. So how much did you think he went home with after winning 92 million?
But people like you only see the 92million, you don't care to know about the 66million tax taken out.
Una think say na Nigeria? Small tax wer Tinubu say make people pay una wan turn the whole country upside down.
A woman with no formal medical qualifications defrauded the NHS by working as a health care support worker using a false ID, a court has heard.
Oluwabunmu Adeleiyi, 30, a Nigerian national living in Canton, Cardiff, on a student visa, worked at Neath Port Talbot Hospital and at the Caswell Clinic in Bridgend.
Cardiff Crown Court heard she and two accomplices used the same IDs to bill the NHS about £16,000 a month through different employment agencies.
Adeleiyi admitted four counts of fraud by false representation and was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for each offence, to run concurrently and to be suspended for two years.
Two of the counts of fraud by false representation related to the hospital in Port Talbot and two to the medium secure mental health unit in Bridgend.
The court heard the fraud came to light when Adeleiyi checked out at the end of a night shift at the Caswell Clinic.
A receptionist noticed that a passport photo had been placed on the ID card, which was kept in a plastic wallet.
When challenged, Adeleiyi refused to hand over shift documentation.
The issue was escalated to senior management at the Swansea Bay University Health Board (SBUHB) who declared a critical incident.
'Patients and staff put at risk'
The health board's investigation found staff had noticed "bizarre" behaviour during her shifts, including locking herself in a room on a ward.
She also locked doors in corridors that were not allowed to be locked in case of fire or if staff were needed to help deal with violent patients.
Adeleiyi, who had no training in restraint techniques, had access to confidential patient notes and made additions to observation notes herself.
The court heard health bosses said the potential risks "could have been catastrophic".
Adeleiyi used the ID of a registered healthcare support worker who fled from the UK to Nigeria using a false passport.
Judge Recorder Mark Powell KC told Adeleiyi: "You put the patients at risk... you put staff at risk."
Adeleiyi was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community service.
Speaking after the hearing, Neil Jones, lead counter fraud specialist for SBUHB, said: "Today's sentence serves to illustrate that any fraud perpetrated against the NHS, especially where individuals target vulnerable patients or staff will be investigated fully and dealt with through the judicial system."
He said Adeleiyi had used fraudulent nursing agency identification supplied by an overseas organised crime group.
"Thankfully, she had minimal interaction with patients and a review carried out by the health board determined that no harm was caused to any patients," he said.
This is the kind of hunger induced kwashiokor dream that jobless Nigerian youths waste their data gossiping about
JibolaUsman: Came across this on the internet this morning and it's highly intriguing. According to the Facebook account this car will cost One Billion Dollars when it will be released on October 17, 2026.
According to the account it will come with Time Travel. What Is Time Travel ? Sho! Is it the same time travel we see in science fiction. Is time travel even possible ?
One thing that I totally agree with is the car is being called " The Most Beautiful Car Of All Time ". Omo I agree o. The car Handsome no be small. Why did they say it was beautiful ? It looks handsome
You can go to Facebook to see more pictures of it at Facebook/ Loloko Oloko.
Omo the car is the ishh. Imagine driving this car on the streets of Lagos, drivers will get accident by looking at the car and not looking at where they are going.
One Billion Dollars is alot of money and I doubt if any American billionaire will buy it, unless the time travel is 100 percent real, then they will buy it for the time travel and then reverse engineer it so that they can build their own time travel machine.
If the time travel is not really that time travel then the only market this car will have is in the middle east.
So what do you guys think of this car ? Will you buy a car that costs $1,234,567,890 ?
In the West, they are at least able to hold their PDFile leaders to account, whereas your heroes in the Middle East and Afghanistan have managed to legalise their own perversions into laws.
That's why slavery has been legalised in Afghanistan and why Africans are being liquidated in Sudan, but nobody cares because Israel is not involved.
As for your claim that none of these groups regards themselves as the moral police, this is the most laughably absurd and fullish statement I've heard on Nairaland in a long time.
The people who you claim are not parading themselves as moral police are the ones trying to force their ideology on everyone else in the world from Nigeria to America.
Please if you don't understand what is happening in global geopolitics, stop speaking ignorance with authority.
Namaster: Mr Man, save your NONSENSICAL whataboutism for people who don't know any better.
What part of your REBUTTAL discredits anything from my post?
Plus, NONE of the groups you mentioned portrays themselves as the Moral Police of the world. Dude even mentioned Afghanistan, a country controlled by TERRORISTS.
Also, speaking of OLDER men raping young boys for sex. That's a move INVENTED by the Catholic Church.
Finally, whataboutism is the most STEWPID form of argument there is. Have you ever seen me DEFEND the actions of the people you identified in this comment?
My point is that the TERRORIST PDFILES in the WEST should be treated the same way as the ones you are talking about.
Wetin this one dey talk? You think depravity only happens in only one part of the world? Have you ever heard of Dubai Porter Parties before? Or Bacha Bazi boys in Afghanistan and Pakistan who are little boys used for sex by older men?
No race, tribe or ethnicity has a monopoly on moral depravity. It happens everywhere.
Namaster: The West MASTERMINDED the BIGGEST Sex Trafficking and PDFile ring the world has ever seen.
Imagine TWO American Presidents (Clinton and PSFile Trump), MULTIPLE members of the British Royal Family (including this one and Andrew) plus their BILLIONAIRES (Gates, Thiel and THIRSTY Musk)all gathering together on MULTIPLE occasions to RAPE children.
These sexual DEVIANTS didn't even stop there. They made VIDEOS and took PICTURES.
In spite of ALL of this, NONE of them have been JAILED.
One is gallivanting inside the White House. Another is pleading the FIFTH.
They committed these ATROCITIES over a span of DECADES. Participants spread across CONTINENTS.
Imagine the SHEER number of CHILDREN that have been VICTIMISED and TRAUMATIZED. And the number of people they've had to MURDER to keep it under wraps.
Some FOOLS were quoting me about how their FAVOURITE PDFile who had to DEPLOY 1000 FBI agents to BLOT OUT his name wasn't a PDFile.
The same PDFile who ran Beauty Pageants for TEENAGE Girls as a 40-year old REAL ESTATE mogul. The same man who drew LEWD pictures and sent birthday wishes to one of the most HEINOUS man to have ever lived.
FOOLS!
Meanwhile, the COMPROMISED Western Media across both continents are severely UNDER-REPORTING and DOWNPLAYING it.
These are LEADERS of countries with Christian and Western Ideologies so it has to be DOWNPLAYED.
If they were Chinese, Russian or, god forbids, Muslim leaders; EVERYONE would be up in arms providing justifications for NUKING them all.
Jeffrey Epstein had a secret child, according to a message sent to him by Sarah Ferguson.
The former Duchess of York congratulated the paedophile on the birth of a “baby boy” after he was released from jail in 2011.
She offered Epstein her “love, friendship and congratulations” after hearing the news from “The Duke”, probably referring to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, her ex-husband.
Sarah Ferguson messages Epstein via Blackberry Messenger, which is delivered as an email notification Sent Wed 9/21/2011
To: Jeffrey Epstein (jeevaction@gmail.com)
F writes:
Dont know if you are still on this bbm but heard from The Duke that you have had a baby boy. Even though you never kept in touch, I still am here with love, friendship and congratualtions [sic] on your baby boy. Sarah xx
It has never been established if Epstein has any children, despite allegedly having sexual relations with hundreds of women.
Karyna Shuliak, the financier’s last-known girlfriend, was set to inherit most of his fortune, properties and island in a will changed shortly before his death in prison in 2019.
Ms Ferguson appeared to send a second message complaining that Epstein had “disappeared” after using her “to get to Andrew”.
Sarah Ferguson messages Epstein via Blackberry Messenger a second time Sent Wed 9/21/2011
To: Jeffrey Epstein (jeevaction@gmail.com)
F writes:
You have disappeared. I did not even know you were having a baby. It was sooooo crystal clear to me that you were only friends with me to get to Andrew. And that really hurt me deeeply (sic). More than you will know.
The correspondence from Ms Ferguson is among the three million documents in the Epstein files that were relased by the US department of justice on Friday, along with 180,000 images and 2,000 videos.
The former Duchess featured several times in the documents, with the latest tranche revealing that she offered Epstein and his friends VIP tours of Buckingham Palace.
The newly released emails showed that Ms Ferguson contacted Epstein after he was released from prison for child sex offences in 2009.
The files also showed that Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s relationship with Epstein continued until at least 2017, seven years after the disgraced former royal claimed to have cut off contact.
Epstein never confessed to having any children while he was alive, but more than 100 people have claimed to be his offspring, with many making a claim to his fortune.
In 2020, Harvey Morse, the founder of Morse Genealogical Services, a DNA firm, said Epstein may have grandchildren because he was “sexually promiscuous for so long”.
“There is a reasonable chance he may have fathered a child,” he said. “He could even be a grandfather.”
Mr Morse said that 130 people approached his company after it set up a website named epsteinheirs.com, although more than a quarter of the claims were dismissed almost immediately.
In a separate file, released on Friday, a woman claimed to have “created” a daughter with Epstein in a “beautiful fertility ritual”. The validity of the claim is not known, and the Justice Department has warned that the files contain a number of “untrue and sensationalist” accusations.
The Epstein Files Transparency Act ordered the US Department of Justice to release all files pertaining to Epstein by Dec 19, but authorities have gone well over the deadline.
Mr Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his remaining royal titles by the King last year, was pictured kneeling over an unidentified woman in the latest documents.
The files also included offers made by Epstein to introduce Mr Mountbatten-Windsor to a “beautiful” 26-year-old Russian woman named Irina.
Of course we all know blacks are geniuses who invented everything and are not capable of debauchery. Maybe we should forget about Soka Forest in Ibadan or Otokoto in the East or how our politicians do worse things and our courts allow them to go scott free.
The ranking is based on four indicators: deadliness, risk to civilians, geographic spread of violence, and the number of armed groups. Countries on this list are classified as facing extreme levels of conflict.
Tensions have escalated between Ogun and Ondo states over the ownership of Eba Island, an oil-rich territory in the South-West, following President Bola Tinubu’s approval of drilling activities at an abandoned oil well on the island.
The Ogun State Government reaffirmed its territorial claim over Eba Island, located in Ogun Waterside Local Government Area, dismissing Ondo State’s competing assertions as misleading and potentially inflammatory.
In a statement on Sunday, Governor Dapo Abiodun’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Kayode Akinmade, said the island falls squarely within Ogun State based on historical, legal, and administrative records.
Tensions have flared between Ogun and Ondo states over Eba Island, a coastal territory in the South-West, recently identified as hosting hydrocarbon resources.
Ogun described recent claims by Ondo State as misleading and capable of provoking avoidable communal tension.
Akinmade said, “The Eba Island, where the approved oil well is located, falls squarely within Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State. Boundaries between states and local governments in Nigeria are constitutionally defined and properly documented by the National Boundary Commission. Official boundary maps and records clearly situate Eba Island within Ogun State.”
According to Akinmade, Eba is a long-established community within Ogun Waterside, whose status predates Nigeria’s independence and has remained unchanged through successive political and administrative reorganisations, including the 1976 state creation exercise that carved Ogun State out of the former Western State.
“Since 1976, there has been no constitutional amendment, judicial pronouncement or federal gazette that altered the boundary placing Eba outside Ogun State,” he said.
He clarified that there are two distinct locations known as “Eba”: one near the Ondo State forest reserve and the larger Eba Island, where the President approved drilling, which lies entirely within Ogun State’s coastal corridor.
Akinmade noted that the federal approval followed extensive due diligence by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and other federal agencies, which confirmed the well’s location within Ogun State before clearance was granted.
“The deployment of national security assets, including naval formations around the drilling site, further demonstrates federal recognition of Ogun State as the host state,” he said.
Providing historical context, Ogun State said that in October 2024, the Molokun of Atijere in Ondo State formally approached the Osobia of Makun-Omi in Ogun Waterside, seeking permission to conduct business activities on Eba Island.
The request was declined and reported to Ogun State, NNPCL, and security agencies.
“This engagement amounted to a tacit acknowledgement of Ogun State’s jurisdiction over the area,” the statement said.
Ogun State also rejected claims based on colonial documents from 1919 and 1920 as misleading, pointing instead to Colonial Government Gazette No. 660 of April 29, 1950, which clearly defined the boundary between the former Ijebu and Ondo provinces. The government cited lease agreements, historical community records, and survey documents—including the Olokola Free Trade Zone Survey Plan—as further proof that Eba Island is part of Ogun State. Administrative validation by the Independent National Electoral Commission, which registers the polling unit at LA Primary School, Eba, under Makun/Irokun Ward in Ogun Waterside, was also highlighted.
While cautioning against misinformation, Ogun State called for restraint and responsible engagement.
“The facts are clear, and the law is settled. Eba Island, where the approved oil well is located, is in Ogun State,” the statement concluded.
However, Ondo State rejected Ogun’s claim, insisting that the island belongs to Atijere in Ilaje Local Government Area.
In a statement on Sunday, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa’s Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy, Allen Sowore, accused Ogun of issuing misleading public statements and media briefings.
“It must be clearly stated that mineral resources, including oil wells, are assets of the Federal Government, domiciled within different states of the Federation. This position is firmly grounded in Item 39 of the Second Schedule (Part I) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), which places oil fields and oil mining on the Exclusive Legislative List,” Sowore said.
He emphasised that while host states and communities are recognised, territorial claims must be established by historical records, documentary evidence, and statutory or judicial determination.
“Ownership of land or territorial location of petroleum resources is not established by press statements or shifting public narratives. Rather, such matters are determined by empirical facts, historical records, documentary evidence, established administrative practice, and, where necessary, judicial or statutory determinations. In this case, the oil deposit in question is situated in Atijere, Ondo State.”
Sowore reiterated that the landowners in the area are Ilaje indigenes, and that the village has existed since at least 1937.
“Eba Island has historically fallen under the Atijere Native Court Authority. River Ufara, which runs through Imakun into Oluwa River, serves as a natural demarcating feature/boundary between Ilaje land and Ijebu land. Ogun and Ondo States are distinct entities with clearly defined administrative and historical boundaries and a long record of cordial relations. Recent attempts to misrepresent facts regarding an oil deposit situated within Ondo State—even to federal authorities—are unacceptable.”
The Ondo government called on the National Boundary Commission and relevant federal agencies to release authoritative records to resolve the boundary controversy.
It is typically free except in cases where the accused is charged with a felony and there is a serious likelihood of him becoming a fugitive from justice. I'm sure you read the story and you can see that the suspect has committed this same offence in several different states under the alias of "Kay" before he was finally apprehended in California.
TGreatGatsby: The sheriff’s office said he is currently being held with a $100,000 bail in the Santa Barbara County Main Jail on multiple felony charges...
But ignorant Nigerians will always be screaming bail is free when they hear about a bail bond put on an offender. The type of offence/scenerio determines the cost of a persons bail after arrest.
Meanwhile the United States alone has more than all African countries put together.
Of course for tactical and strategic purposes, the big boys like the US and China will never reveal the true strength in depth of their air forces so if they reveal any figures, one should instinctively know that the real figure is signing higher than what they reveal to the public.
Africa will always be at the bottom of the pile as long as we have prioritised mediocrity over progress.
For example, over the past 5 years, Nigeria has consistently allocated more money for Hajj pilgrimage than it does for science and technology.
In fact over the past 5 years, the Federal government of Nigeria has spent almost 3 times as much on subsidising Hajj pilgrimage as it did on science and technology.
Santa Barbara County authorities have arrested a man who they believe sexually abused patients while working at a nursing home.
The investigation into Kayode Agbolade Ogunba, a certified nursing assistant, began early last November when the facility in Goleta reported that he sexually assaulted two patients while working there, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.
Ogunba was involved in similar allegations in the Los Angeles area, and he is believed to have previously worked in other states, including Washington and Texas, according to authorities.
Ogunba was arrested last Tuesday in Los Angeles on a Santa Barbara County arrest warrant.
He may have gone by the name Kay in professional or personal settings, investigators said.
The sheriff’s office said he is currently being held with a $100,000 bail in the Santa Barbara County Main Jail on multiple felony charges, including sexual penetration and elder abuse.
Is this a joke? There is a Church in Egypt where muslims go for spiritual deliverance because their imams failed to deliver them from demonic oppression.
phadul: There is no such thing as ghosts. But there is the Djinn (which others that do not know them call them demons )according to the holy Quran and they are real a whole chapter in the quran talks about them! The sooner they realize this the more they will understand their problem is going to be solved by calling a Muslim Djinn specialist chaplain not a priest! As you have to know what you are dealing with to even know how to exercise it!
NHS called in exorcist after frightened hospice staff reported seeing ghosts
An NHS trust contacted an exorcist after staff reported seeing ghosts, including a “girl in a red dress” at a Norwich hospice.
The site was previously used as a children’s hospital, and after a series of paranormal incidents, staff fear that it may still be home to the spirits that once lived there.
The NHS has reportedly asked for the help of deliverance ministers, or exorcists, to carry out ceremonies using holy oil.
Exorcisms have become recognised in mainstream culture since the popularization of the 1970s hit horror film, The Exorcist, which tells the story of a little girl who is possessed.
The iconic 1970’s horror film The Exorcist brought the concept of possession and exorcisms into the mainstream.
The paranormal incidents occurred at Priscilla Bacon Lodge, located near Colman Hospital, which was previously home to the Jenny Lind Children’s Hospital. It is now used as a hospice by the Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust.
Sources have said there have been concerns about “paranormal incidents” at the hospice, including repeated sightings of a “small child in a red dress”.
They reported a “difficult time” at the site and asked for “some holy oil” from Norwich Cathedral.
The NHS trust reportedly contacted Norwich Cathedral for holy oil to carry out a ceremony at the reportedly haunted hospice.
The chaplain explained that this would be used to conduct a religious service to soothe the fears of staff and patients who believed the site was haunted.
The following week, another email was sent to the Diocese of Norwich, which confirmed they were in “conversation with a member of the deliverance team”.
A “blessing of the building” was then carried out, the trust said, but claims no exorcist ever visited the hospice in person.
The trust also refused to discuss what paranormal activity patients and staff have reported seeing.
After the paranormal incidents were reported, Priscilla Bacon Lodge moved into new premises in 2023.
The former children’s hospital is now no longer in use, despite being briefly converted into a therapy unit.
This one is a houseboy, not a governor. He knows that he lacks the mental capacity and competence to actually achieve anything meaningful for Edo State, so like a good houseboy, he has decided it is better to serve the real oga who appointed him than to serve the people of Edo State.
Someone should tell him that there is something prophetic and symbolic about his oga's recent fall and one day it will be his turn to fall like his oga.
Keir Starmer showed a bit of light-hearted deference to Xi Jinping with an unusual sporty gift ahead of their meeting in Beijing.
The PM gave the Chinese President a football that was used in last weekend’s match between Manchester United and Arsenal at the Emirates stadium.
It wasn’t just any match. The visitors managed to beat the Gunners with an 87th minute goal from Matheus Cunha, putting a dent in their hopes of winning the title.
So, the present was a gesture of humility from Starmer, a passionate Arsenal fan, to Xi, who is reportedly obsessed with Manchester United.
The Chinese leader may not appear to be a likely devotee of English football, but reports of his fondness for the Red Devils go back a while.
On his own official visit to the UK in 2015, there were fears of a diplomatic incident when his tour of Old Trafford was scrapped in favour of a look around the Etihad stadium… home of bitter rivals Manchester City.
According to ESPN, the decision was made by ‘avid City fan’ Sir Richard Leese, who was the leader of Manchester Council at the time.
What will Starmer get out of his trip?
Pressure has mounted on Starmer to get some major deals from his China visit – and it’s not just due to the mild humiliation of the football gift.
Figures including Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch have questioned the logic behind putting on a show of friendship with the Chinese at a time when concerns about espionage dominate headlines.
In the past few months, focus has shifted from the collapsed China ‘spy’ case; an MI5 warning about recruiters in Parliament; the verdict in the trial of British citizen Jimmy Lai; and approval for the controversial embassy.
Starmer has argued he is merely a ‘British pragmatist’ who wants to forge connections with the world’s second-largest economy to give the UK a boost.
In his meeting, the PM told Xi he wanted a ‘more sophisticated’ relationship with Beijing, with the President acknowledging ‘twists and turns’ in recent years.
On his way out, Starmer said ‘really good progress’ had been made on whisky tariffs and illegal migration – with a focus on China’s role in making parts for engines used on small boats.
He later announced British citizens will be able to travel to China visa-free for visits of less than 30 days, a move he said would help UK businesses ‘expand abroad, all while boosting growth and jobs at home’.
The PM also told reporters his team had raised the case of Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy campaigner who is jailed in Hong Kong, and concerns over the treatment of the Uighur minority.
He said: ‘Part of the rationale for engagement is to make sure that we can both seize the opportunities that are available, which is what we’ve done, but also have a mature discussion about issues that we disagree on.’
A woman in West Virginia was arrested after allegedly trying to recruit people to assassinate President Donald Trump, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
Morgan Morrow, 39, has been charged with one count of terroristic threats.
Deputies said Morrow was recruiting individuals to pursue and assassinate Trump and that further details will be released as the investigation continues.
The sheriff’s office also said that the posting of Morrow’s arrest on its Facebook page was “not meant to be a political-oriented statement.”
The post, which gained thousands of reactions and shares within 12 hours, said, “This is an active criminal investigation with documented and troubling concerns.”
Morrow is in the South Central Regional Jail; no bond has been set.
The Taliban has formally entrenched a class-based justice system in Afghanistan under a newly enacted Criminal Procedure Code signed by its supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, a move that has sparked outrage among human rights organisations and renewed international concern over the direction of the country's legal and political order.
The new code, issued on January 4, 2026, and circulated to courts across the country, has been obtained by Rawadari, an Afghan human rights organisation that monitors violations and advocates for accountability. While the document spans 119 articles across three sections and 10 chapters, critics say one of its most alarming features is the explicit legalisation of social hierarchy within the justice system itself.
Hierarchy-Based Division
At the centre of the controversy is Article 9, which divides Afghan society into four categories:
1. Religious scholars (ulama or mullah),
2. The elite (ashraf),
3. The middle class; and
4. The lower class.
Under this system, punishment for the same crime is no longer determined primarily by the nature or gravity of the offence but by the social status of the accused
According to the code, if an Islamic religious scholar commits a crime, the response is limited to advice.
If the offender belongs to the elite, the consequence is a summons to court and advice.
For those in the so-called middle class, the same offence results in imprisonment.
But for individuals from the "lower class", the punishment escalates to both imprisonment and corporal punishment.
Human rights groups said this provision effectively grants clerics and religious figures near-total immunity from meaningful criminal accountability while exposing poorer and more marginalised Afghans to harsher and more violent penalties.
"This is not a justice system; it is a legally codified hierarchy of privilege," Rawadari said in a statement, warning that the code destroys the principle of equality before the law and replaces it with institutionalised discrimination.
Return Of Slavery?
Legal experts note that the move marks a sharp departure even from basic concepts of modern criminal law, where punishment is supposed to be proportionate to the crime and based on individual responsibility, not social background. By contrast, the Taliban's new code openly embraces social stratification as a legal principle, turning courts into instruments for preserving and enforcing a rigid social order.
The class-based system is compounded by another deeply controversial element-- the code's repeated references to "free" persons and "slaves".
In several articles, including provisions on punishment, the law explicitly distinguishes between free individuals and enslaved ones, a terminology that human rights advocates say amounts to the legal recognition of a status that is absolutely prohibited under international law.
Slavery is banned in all circumstances under peremptory norms of international law, yet the Taliban's code treats it as a normal legal category.
Words Over Proof?
Beyond social hierarchy, the new Criminal Procedure Code also strips away many of the most basic safeguards of due process. The document does not recognise the right to a defence lawyer, the right to remain silent or the right to compensation for wrongful punishment. It relies heavily on "confession" and "testimony" as the main means of proving guilt, while removing the requirement for independent investigation and failing to set clear minimum and maximum penalties for crimes.
Rights groups warned that this legal framework dramatically increases the risk of torture and forced confessions, particularly in a system where judges and law enforcement operate without oversight or accountability.
The code also significantly expands the use of corporal punishment, including flogging, and introduces vaguely defined offences such as "dancing" or being present in "gatherings of corruption", giving judges sweeping discretion to detain and punish people for ordinary cultural or social activities.
A Human Rights Challenge
For many observers, however, the formalisation of class-based justice is the clearest signal yet that the Taliban is not merely imposing harsh laws, but reconstructing the entire legal system around privilege, loyalty and religious status. "By placing clerics and religious elites above the law, the Taliban has effectively announced that some people are untouchable, while others are permanently disposable," Rawadari said.
The organisation has called for the immediate suspension of the code's implementation and urged the United Nations and the international community to use all available legal and diplomatic mechanisms to prevent its enforcement. It has also pledged to continue monitoring the situation and to publish regular reports on how the new legal framework is being used in practice.
As Afghanistan becomes increasingly isolated and its internal repression deepens, critics say the new criminal code sends a stark message - under Taliban rule, justice is no longer blind, it is stratified, selective and firmly aligned with power.
It's real. This video is on the TRT (Turkish Radio & Television) official YouTube account, so it couldn't be AI. Plus the incident was reported in numerous official sources across the world.
What is wring with these our men in the uk? If its not s3x offender it’s mvrder case😒
Daniel Odubanjo, 27, was arr3sted in the UK after he trapped a woman in a train toilet and s3xually assaulted her before s3xually assaulting young girl.
The British Transport Police has secured a six-year jail term for a Nigerian based in the United Kingdom, Daniel Odubanjo, for sexually assaulting a woman during a train journey.
PUNCH Metro learnt on Tuesday from a statement published on the BTP website that Odubanjo was sentenced by the Chelmsford Crown Court on January 12 for offences including false imprisonment and sexual assault.
According to the statement, Odubanjo’s trial followed a report by a woman who said the convict assaulted her while she was using a train toilet.
The statement narrated that on November 29, 2024, the victim, while using the train toilet, heard a bang on the door and assumed another passenger was waiting to use the facility.
It added that as she finished and opened the door, she was confronted by Odubanjo, who allegedly forced himself on her, dragged her back into the toilet and assaulted her.
The statement read, “But instead, she came face to face with Odubanjo, who pushed her back inside the cubicle and locked the door, forcefully grabbing her wrists and sexually assaulting her.
“In the struggle that ensued, the woman, who was 21 at the time, managed to open the door and attempted to get the attention of a fellow passenger, but Odubanjo grabbed her and pulled her back into the toilet, where he continued the sexual assault as she screamed for help.
“It was only when she lied about her age, claiming to be 14, that Odubanjo let her go. In an extremely distressed state, she approached a member of staff and left the train at Chelmsford, where she reported the incident to BTP.”
The police said that moments after the first incident, Odubanjo approached another teenager, sat opposite her and asked a barrage of inappropriate questions.
“When he left to use the toilet, the teenager moved seats to sit closer to other passengers and told them what had happened. However, Odubanjo returned, sat next to her and sexually assaulted her.
“A nearby passenger intervened and pulled Odubanjo away from the girl. The train was met by BTP officers at Hatfield Peverel station, just outside Chelmsford, where Odubanjo was arrested,” the statement added.
Following investigations, Odubanjo was charged, arraigned and later found guilty by the court.
The statement added, “Following a British Transport Police investigation, Daniel Odubanjo, 27, of King Avenue, Clapham, was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday, January 12, for one count of false imprisonment and two counts of sexual assault after being found guilty following an earlier trial.
“He was sentenced to six years in prison, ordered to pay a victim surcharge, and handed a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, which prohibits him from being under the influence of any substance while on public transport, at stations or on Network Rail property.”
Odubanjo joins a list of Nigerians convicted of crimes in the UK.
PUNCH Metro reported in November 2025 that the United Kingdom’s National Health Service Counter Fraud Authority secured a three-year conviction against a Nigerian doctor, Richard Akinrolabu, for offences bordering on fraud by false representation amounting to £268,000.
Akinrolabu was employed as a trust-grade specialist registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Princess Royal University Hospital and, between 2018 and 2021, allegedly reduced his workload under false pretences while engaging in another job.
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