The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted over 2.3 million tablets of illicit pharmaceutical opioids and other psychoactive substances meant for distribution in seven northern states. The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in…
Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta A 49-year-old man, Amoda Bola of Idi Oro, Ode Remo in Remo North Local Government has been arrested by men of Ogun state police command for turning her 14-year-old daughter (name withheld) to sex worker and subsequently…
Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta Ogun State Police Command on Friday, alerted the residents of the state over the presence of a prowling serial killer around Remo land, in Ogun East senatorial district of the state. The yet-to-be indentified serial killer, according…
A Makurdi Upper Area Court on Friday remanded two persons, Thomas Huna and Matthew Gbuusu, for alleged illegal possession of firearms. The Magistrate, Mrs Rose Iyorshe, remanded the duo at the Federal Maximum Correctional Centre, Makurdi, and adjourned the case…
…Rescue infant, six others By Idibia Gabriel, Kaduna A suspected female informant of bandits, one Hajiya Bilkisu, has been lynched while seven of the bandits terrorising Mariri community in Lere LGA of Kaduna state have been arrested by troops of…
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court on Thursday slammed a 37-year jail term on one Moses Joseph for defiling a minor. Taiwo, in her judgment, said that from the substantial evidences presented before the court, she found…
Chief Magistrate Patricia Adetuyibi sitting at A Family Court in Iyaganku, Ibadan, on Thursday remanded men, James Thomas, 35, and Segun Adesina, 61, for alleged rape of 14-year-old girl. Adetuyibi, who did not take the plea of the defendants due…
Operatives of the Edo Police Command have busted a suspected ritual shrine in Benin and arrested three suspects with 20 mummified bodies. The command announced this on Thursday in Benin in a statement issued by its Deputy Public Relations Officer,…
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ibadan on Thursday granted a 29-year-old herbalist, Ganiyu Rilwan bail of N10 million for alleged fraud of N20.5 million. Reports state that the defendant Rilwan, a resident of Muslim area in Ibadan was…
By Matthew Denis, Abuja The Executive Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa has disclosed that the commission has recorded a total of 2220 convictions in the 2021 year. The Chairman made the disclosure during a workshop…
