By Kayode Tokede The Federal High Court, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State has sentenced a trader, Mr. Chinonso Ugochukwu to one year imprisonment for pirating The Holy Bible and other books. Ugochukwu was found guilty on two-count- charge, bordering “on pirating,…
Tobi Adetunji. The Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), has appealed to commercial vehicle drivers plying Owode-Ijako road, on the Abeokuta-Lagos Expressway, to cooperate with its personnel to minimise gridlocks along the axis. Mrs Tope Oseni, Owode-Ijako Unit TRACE…
Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, South-West Nigeria, Ngozi Onadeko, has vowed that the masterminds of the attack on a Fulani community in Igangan, Ibarapa local government area of the state, will be brought to justice. Settlements belonging to Fulanis…
Human and environmental rights activist, Ann-Kio Briggs, has called on the Ijaw ethnic group to throw its weight behind the Interim Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr. Efiong Akwa. The Niger Delta activist, who spoke to newsmen…
The former Chairman of the disbanded Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla, has been arraigned in court by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), on allegation of offences…
The Cross River Government security outfit, “Operation Akpakwu”, has demolished the “Save side hotel” at 8miles area in Calabar for harbouring suspected kidnappers that have been terrorising the state. Speaking after the exercise, Mr Henry Okokon, the Security Adviser, South,…
The Nigerian Navy said it detained and handed over a suspected smugglers’ vessel to the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), for switching off its transponder. Capt. Suleiman Mohammed, First Lieutenant, Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, Port Harcourt, told…
Two panel beaters, Olawale Olaniyi and Kehinde Sulaiman, on Friday appeared before a Tinubu Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing a Honda Element Jeep worth N3 million. Olaniyi, 50 and Sulaiman, 38, of no fixed addresses, are facing a two-count…
The Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested four police officers who allegedly harassed and extorted N70,000 from a 16-year-old student on Wednesday at NGAB Junction, Isheri Area of Lagos State. The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr…
The Police on Friday arraigned a 33-year-old FedEx Red Star Express staff, Wisdom Jackson, before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing N2. 2 million from his office account. Jackson, a resident of Shogunle in Oshodi, Lagos, is being tried…
