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A Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, yesterday sentenced two Senior Secondary School (SSS 3) leavers Udochukwu Anyanwu and Udo Chibike (also known as Lasis), to seven years imprisonment each for breaking into a church and stealing a piano. Justice Yetunde Adesanya sentenced them after they pleaded guilty to a plea bargain […]

In Uyo, A four-year-old girl, Aisha Rayanu, who was abducted from her School by one Favour Nwachukwu, has been rescued by operatives of the anti-child theft section, State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCIID, Akwa Ibom State Police Command. Speaking during the parade of the suspect, yesterday, at the Police Headquarters, Ikot Akpan-Abia, the Police […]

A 44-year-old artisan, Mustapha Abiodun, is currently cooling off inside one of the cells at the State Police Command, Ikeja for impregnating his teenage daughter in Alagbado area of Lagos. The victim parents are divorced started living with her father two years ago when she was 14 years, but her father started abusing her sexually […]

Troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), have successfully overrun and captured the stronghold of the Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists at Ukuba/Camp Zairo, in Sambisa Forest. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the troops also seized weapons from the terrorists. Onyeuko said the […]

A 33-year-old tailor Lucy Jacob, who allegedly sold her customer’s lace materials worth N65,000, on Thursday appeared before a Kaduna Magistrates’ Court. The defendant, who resides at Sabon Tasha, Kaduna is charged with breach of trust and cheating. She pleaded not guilty. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp Chidi Leo, told the court that the complainant, Ms […]

A 40-year-old man, Musa Godwin, was on Wednesday docked in a High Court in Kaduna State for allegedly defrauding job seekers of N22 million. Godwin is charged with obtaining money by false pretence and fraud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kaduna. The EFCC Counsel, Precious Onyeneho, told the court that the defendant […]

A Magistrates’ Court in Ilorin, yesterday, ordered that a farmer, Mufutau Adekola, be remanded in Oke-Kura Correctional Centre for allegedly murdering his mother and brother. The police charged Adekola with culpable homicide contrary to the provisions of Section 221 of the Penal Code Law. Magistrate Ibrahim Dasuki, who did not take the plea of Adekola […]

    The police team prosecuting the case of alleged murder of a postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Mr. Timothy Adegoke, yesterday closed its case against the owner of Hilton Hotels and Resorts in Ile-Ife, Dr. Rahman Adedoyin, and six of his workers who are standing trial at an Osun State High […]

  The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 52-year-old father of four, Okeke Adolphus Anayochukwu, with black liquid cocaine at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA). Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said this was the first time such has happened. […]