The Police Command in Zamfara has confirmed the kidnap of six children of one Alhaji Sani Gyare and one other in Kadauri village, Maru Local Government Area of the state. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Shehu Mohammed, confirmed the…
A 47-year-old man, Anthony Ogbevon, on Friday, approached the Edo Judicial Panel of Inquiry for Victims of SARS and Related Abuses in Benin, seeking financial compensation of N50 million. In seeking for the compensation, Ogbevon alleged that he was wrongly…
Two teenagers, Davidson Ayo (16) and Adedayo Pelumi (18), were on Friday, arraigned before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged house breaking and stealing. The defendants, of unknown addresses, are facing a two-count charge of house breaking and stealing.…
A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano on Friday, awarded 12 strokes of cane and and a fine of N10,000 to Umar Yahaya, 25, for dealing in hard drugs. Yahaya, who resides at Fagge Quarters Kano, was convicted on two-count charge…
A Kano Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered that two men; Jabir Idris,25, and Salisu Hamisu,32, be given 12 strokes of cane each for theft of mobile phones. Idris, a resident of Jakara Quarters, and Hamisu of Dandishe Quarters all in…
A 31-year-old former bank staff, Kazeem Adeleye, on Friday appeared in Chief Magistrates’ Court in Tinubu, Lagos, for alleged N28.3million fraud. The police charged Adeleye, whose address was not given with three counts of conspiracy, fraud and theft. The prosecution…
Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on Thursday dissolved a 15-year-old marriage between a businesswoman, Fatima Akinpelu and Azeez, on grounds that he wants to use his wife for money ritual. Delivering judgment, Chief Ademola Odunade, the court’s President held that…
A 35-year-old man, Femi Adesaji, on Thursday appeared in a Magistrate Court in Ota, Ogun, for allegedly tampering with a prepaid meter belonging to Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company(IBEDC). The police charged Adesaji, who lives in Ota with three counts of…
A widow, from Nkek, in Ukanafun Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, Mrs Mfon Udoidiong, has said that a policeman, Mr Idongesit Ekanem, killed her son on Sept.9, 2017, for failure to give him N100 he demanded. She made the…
By Saka Laaro, Ilorin Kwara state Police Command has arrested a 24-year-old lady, Medinat Ibrahim, for faking her own kidnap, alongside two other accomplices. The state Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Lawal- Bagega, made the disclosure on Wednesday in Ilorin, the…
