Five oil thieves have been convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment in separate judgment by the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. While Justice Phoebe M. Ayuba convicted and sentenced Peter Listen, Monday Nwibe to six months imprisonment each…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested a suspected fake soldier, Hayatu Galadima and his accomplice, Hamisu Adamu. They were in possession of hard drugs, ammunition and communication equipment suspected to be for use by bandits…
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya, is set inaugurate three new security exercises, Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, stated on Sunday in Abuja. The exercises to carried out nationwide are: “Golden Dawn”, “Enduring Peace” and…
Unknown gunmen on Friday kidnapped Dr Ibrahim Garba, Permanent Secretary, Niger State Ministry of Transport and his son. Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Monday Kuryas, made this known in an interview with newsmen in Minna on Saturday, NAN…
No fewer than ten persons were said to have been set ablaze and many others were slaughtered while ten women were abducted by bandits in Kachiwe village Sarkin Pawa ward, Munya local government area of Niger State. The bandits destroyed…
…As Australia pledges support to EFCC The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has expressed his readiness to work with the National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, in ensuring that Nigeria has a credible national identity…
The republics of Niger and Benin have called for effective collaboration with Nigeria to end banditry in the three neighbouring countries. Alhaji Assoumana Ahmadou and Ky-Samah Bello, Governors of Dosso State, Niger Republic, and Governor of Alibori State, Benin Republic,…
Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin on Thursday, September 30, 2021 imposed 28 years imprisonment on a self-styled Alfa in Ilorin over offences bordering on fraud and obtaining by false pretence, contrary to Section 1(1) (a)…
An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Kano, on Thursday, adjourned until Oct.14, the trial of a Kano cleric, Abduljabbar Nasiru-Kabara, charged with blasphemy against the Holy Prophet Muhammad Reports state that the plea of Nasiru-Kabara, who is facing a four…
Two bank security guards who allegedly stole N2.4 million from an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) were on Wednesday charged before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. The defendants were: Friday Audu, 43, of No. 1, Oyewole Compound, Iyana Ipaja and Haruna…
