A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered that a 33-year old teacher, Emmanuel Okoriko , be remanded in a correctional centre for alleged armed robbery. The police charged Okoriko , who lives in Otukpo Local Government Area of Benue…
Less than a week after the convoy of the Kogi State Governor ,Yahaya Bello was attacked by gunmen, no fewer than four persons were allegedly kidnapped a few metres from Banda community of the state. The kidnapped persons among them…
EFCC has arrested 20 suspects, including an ex-convict in Ilorin over cybercrime offences. Its spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren stated on Tuesday that the agency once secured the conviction of Raji Babatunde, over similar offences. The latest arrests at Egbejila, Airport…
Edo High Court on Tuesday sentenced 19 persons to prison for engaging in internet fraud popularly known as “Yahoo Yahoo”. The convicts in separate judgements by Justices Efe Ikponmwonba and Mary Itsueli in Benin, were found guilty of the charges…
The Police command in Lagos State has arrested three men suspected to be members of a ‘one chance’ gang, operating along Oshodi–Gbagada Expressway, Lagos. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos.…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned one Umar Abubakar, for offences bordering on alleged forgery and employment scam. Abubakar was docked before Honourable Justice Hafsat Abdulrahman of Adamawa State High Court 1, sitting in…
Bayonle Adegbola The Ogun 1 Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said its operatives impounded no fewer than 6,924 bags of smuggled foreign parboiled rice, equivalent to 11 trailer loads, between the months of April and May. The…
An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday, ordered the remand of a former Speaker of Ekiti House of Assembly, Dele Olugbemi, and one Tajero Adebayo in the Ado-Ekiti Correctional Centre over cases involving fraud and attempted murder. Olugbemi, 48, and…
A professor at the University of Ibadan, Opeyemi Isaac Ajewole, has been killed by suspected assassins. It was gathered that the don was killed while returning to his home in the Moniya area of Ibadan on Monday evening. His corpse…
By Sodiq Adelakun The University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Tuesday morning confirmed the killing of a 200-level student of the Department of Metallurgical and Material Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Adekunle Agboola, who was shot outside the University premises on Saturday…
