The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), says it has rescued four female victims of human trafficking in Jigawa. The Comptroller, Mr Isma’il Abba, told newsmen in Dutse on Friday, that the victims were rescued on Thursday at Gurai village in Babura…
Serie A club Spezia were given a four-window transfer ban by FIFA for breaking rules relating to the signing of underage players, the world football governing body said Friday. Spezia were deemed to have brought “several Nigerian minors into Italy…
…Fish out perpetrators, Akeredolu gives matching orders to security operatives By Akintunde Jacobs, Akure No fewer than three persons including the Public Relations Officer of a private University in Ondo state, Olubunmi Afuye, have been reportedly shot dead by some…
Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of $3,719,855.94 found in the account of a company, Enerbett International Ltd., to the Federal Government. Justice Aneke gave the order,…
Justice O.A. Musa of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Bwari, Abuja on Thursday convicted the trio of Lawal Umar, a 45 year-old property agent; Alexander Danjuma, a 43-year-old mechanic and Theophilus Omambala, a 47-year-old engineer for giving false information…
By SAKA Laaro, Ilorin The Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kwara State Command, has prevented further bloody clashes among some Fulani family members in Ikoroku area, Kaiama local government area of Kwara state. According to…
…recovers 843kg Skunk, Cocaine Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have busted three major interstate drug cartels supplying illicit substances to some states in the North, recovered skunk and cocaine weighing over 843 kilograms and arrested at…
A Zuba Upper Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday ordered that a 28-year-old labourer, Nura Taimu, be remanded in custody for allegedly injuring a woman. The police charged the defendant, of Yarkasuwa Galadima Gwarinpa, Abuja, with Joint act, causing hurt, mischief…
A Kano State High Court on Wednesday sentenced a security guard, Ibrahim Sale, to six years in imprisonment for gross indecency in assaulting an 8-year-old girl. Sale, who resides at Darmanawa Quarters, Kano, was arraigned on a three-count charge of…
Justice Peter Kekemeke of the FCT High Court, Nyanya, on Wednesday sentenced a 29-year-old pastor to life imprisonment for raping a 17-year-old girl. The convict, Stephen Kalu, a pastor of Adoration Ministry, Karshi, Abuja, was arraigned before the court by…
