Crime

Extortion: Customs hands over officer to Service Police

By Austine Emmanuel, Kaduna The Nigeria Custom Service, (NCS) Federal Operation Unit Zone “B” Kaduna has handed over an Officer to the Service Police, following an alleged extortion of N500,000 from a car buyer. The Comptroller Federal Operations Unit (FOU)…

Court orders arrest of popular Kano musician

A Kano State High Court has ordered the Police to arrest a popular Hausa musician, Ado Isa Gwanja. The court sitting presided by Justice Aisha Mahmud affirmed the earlier ruling by an Upper Sharia Court Bichi which ordered the musician’s…

Kaduna court jails internet fraudster, company

Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna has convicted and sentenced one John Yakubu to three years imprisonment for internet fraud. He was jailed on Friday,  February 23, 2024, after pleading guilty to a one-count…

Thugs’ assault woman, children

A woman and her four children aged 19, 17, 16 and 15 years were allegedly assaulted on Thursday, 18th May, 2023 by hoodlums around 11 pm on their way home at Ojoo area, Ibadan. According to the victim, Mrs. Olaojo…

Unemployed man remanded for armed robbery

Fatai Kasali A 38-year-old unemployed man, Lukmon Jimoh, has been sent to the Kirikiri Correctional Centre by an Ikeja Magistrate Court. He is accused of robbing a man at gunpoint and has been denied mercy by Magistrate M.F. Onamusi. Mrs.…