Crime

Electrician bags six-month jail term for cheating

A Grade 1 Area Court in Shagari quarters, Abuja,  on Tuesday sentenced a 29-year-old Electrician, Sunday Adebanyo, to six months imprisonment for cheating a lottery house of N37,000. Adebanyo, who resides at Dutse Makaranta, Abuja, was sentenced after he pleaded…

Man jailed one year for N6m fraud

A Kaduna Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced a 43-year-  old businessman, Tunji Adebiyi, to one year imprisonment for defrauding one Mr Felix Samson of six million naira on the pretext of selling an apartment to him. The defendant, a resident…

Unemployed man faces murder charge

A Lagos High Court at Tafawa Balewa Square on Monday remanded an unemployed man, Toafeek Yekini, at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre, for allegedly stabbing a man to death. Yekini, whose address was not provided, is standing trial on a charge…