Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Usman Alkaki-Baba, on Tuesday hosted a special feast with officers and men of the Command in Borno, to mark the Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The maiden IGP feast was designed to enable the high ranking police…
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday ruled that a former governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, has a case to answer in the N29 billion fraud charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission…
By Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta A suspected member of a kidnapping gang, Waliu Oloyede who allegedly abducted a military officer last Friday around Odo-Pako, Ota, in Ado-Odo/Ota local government of Ogun state has been arrested by operatives of Ogun state police…
A Lagos High Court sitting at Tafa Belewa Square, on Monday dismissed an application seeking to discharge a Danish, Peter Nielsen, accused of killing his Nigerian wife and daughter. Nielsen’s counsel, Mr Olasupo Shasore (SAN), had prayed the court to…
A 20-year-old sales representative, Kelechi Amuchi, was on Monday arraigned at an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing his employer’s money and clothes worth N2.43 million. Amuchi, whose residential address was not given, is being charged with alleged conspiracy…
An angry mob on Monday evening meted out jungle justice on three suspected motorcycle thieves in Ayobo area of Lagos. The three suspects, who allegedly stole two brand new motorcycles at Olorunsola, Ayobo, Ipaja, Lagos were set ablaze after lynching…
An Abakaliki Magistrates’ Court Monday ordered the remand of three persons at the Correctional Centre for allegedly stealing goats. The defendants, Monday Effia, 42, Amaechi Ofoke, 35, and Uchenna Omaka, 36, were arraigned by the Ebonyi Command of the Nigeria…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Cross River has arrested six suspected cultists with two locally made pistols. Commandant of NSCDC in C/River, Mr Samuel Fadeyi, who disclosed this in an interview with journalist in Calabar, said…
A 36-year-old housewife, Rukayat Abdulkareem told an FCT High Court in Kubwa that she did not stab her husband’s mistress’ 17-year-old boy to death. The police charged Abdulkareem with a one count charge of culpable homicide. Being led in defence,…
The Ilorin Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction of three persons arrested by the anti-graft agency in Ado Ekiti for offences bordering on cybercrime and prosecuted before Justice Mohammed Sanni of the Federal…
