By Mike Adebayo, Ado-Ekiti An Ekiti State High Court situated in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital has sentenced a forty nine year old Akinola Ademola to death by hanging. The convict was arraigned before Justice Lekan Ogunmoye in December, 2020 for…
A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, on Wednesday, convicted one Abdulrahman Wasiu for offenses bordering on cybercrime and retention of proceeds of unlawful activities. The Ilorin Zonal Command of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) secured the conviction.…
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have reportedly abducted Ugu ward 9 chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State. The victim, Mr. Godwin Aigbogun, 55, was said to be returning from his farm…
Mr Aliyu Abubakar, a defence witness in the trial-within-trial of the former Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke told a Federal High Court, Abuja that an EFCC officer threatened him to indict former President Goodluck Jonathan in alleged money laundering. Abubakar,…
The Police Command in Ekiti State has arrested 15 suspected armed robbers, cultists and drug dealers in their hideout in Ado-Ekiti. DSP Sunday Abutu, the command’s spokesperson, disclosed this in a statement in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday. The suspects include Musa…
The Police Command in Oyo State, on Tuesday confirmed the abduction of Alao-Akala’s farm Supervisor, Mr Christopher Bakare, in Ogbomosho. The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Adewale Osifeso, confirmed the incident on Tuesday in Ibadan. Adewale said that the command…
Justice Aminu Bappa-Aliyu of a Federal High Court, Gusau, on Tuesday adjourned until July 26, a suit challenging the credibility of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Primary election in Zamfara. Jouirnalists reports that the PDP Governorship Primary in the…
Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court in Ibadan on Tuesday sentenced a 25-year-old drug dealer, Adeyinka Ismail, to two years imprisonment for trafficking 49.9 kg of marijuana. Delivering judgment, Agomoh, held that she sentenced Ismail based on the…
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday remanded an unemployed man, Daniel Olaniyan, 32, who pleaded guilty to attempted burglary to be remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre. The Magistrate, Mrs. O. A. Odubayo, remanded the defendant following a guilty…
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered that a 38-year-old man, Aliu Dauda, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly defiling a nine-year-old girl. The police charged Dauda, who resides in Moba Aboki area of Ajah, Lagos…
