The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has intercepted two suspected fake military officers in a new VIP edition of Toyota Hilux Jeep loaded with a total of 394 compressed parcels of illicit drugs concealed in different parts of the vehicle. The suspected fake military officers; Mohammed Nura and Abubakar Dahiru, were intercepted by vigilant…
An Ex-Oyo court registrar already serving a jail term, has been sentenced to fresh three years in prison over a dud cheque. On Friday, February 12, the EFCC secured the conviction of a former Deputy Chief Registrar of the Oyo State High Court, Mutiat Omobola Adio. She was convicted after pleading guilty to…
A Nigerian man, Yusuf Suleiman, has been killed 28 days after his wedding to his wife, Ramatu Idris, in Dutsen Abba ward in Kaduna state on February 4. Ramatu in an interview with NAN, recounted how she was made a widow days after she became wife to her now-deceased husband. “There were about…
A new law decriminalizing same-sex sexual relations went into effect Wednesday, Feb 10, in Angola. The new law overturned a colonial-era “vice against nature” provision that was seen as a ban on homosexual relations. The changes were passed in January 2019 by Angola’s parliament, but was not signed into law by the country’s…
A magistrate court in Kano state has remanded a mother of four, Fatima Hamza, in prison custody over the death of her 16-year-old housemaid. It will be recalled that Mrs Hamza was arrested after being accused of beating the late Khadija Rabiu to a pulp and inserting dried pepper and metal object in her vagina for not…
A 35-year-old security guard, Patrick Akpan, has been arraigned before the Lagos Magistrate court in Yaba for allegedly beating his three-year-old daughter to death on December 27. 2020. The police had charged Akpan before the court for manslaughter. The prosecution counsel, ASP Thomas Nurudeen, told the court that Akpan committed the offence in Jakande Estate, Lekki…
The deceased, Mika Luka One Ibrahim Raymond arrested by the police in Plateau State has revealed that he killed his friend, Mika Luka, a 24-year-old tricycle rider and buried him in an uncompleted building because of money. The suspect, a security guard in the Millionaires’ Quarter area of Jos metropolis, made the revelation at the State…
The Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) has arrested two men, Abdulmumuni and Mohammed Sani, for their involvement in the recent killing at Miango community, Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau state. It will be recalled that suspected Fulani militia ambushed and killed two natives in Miango community, Raphael Bawa and Mabo Aga on Februray 2, 2021.…
The Kano State Police Command has arrested two suspects in connection with the brutal murder of a vigilante in Bebeji Local Government Area of the State. Spokesperson of the command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, February 5, said the culprits killed Ibrahim Shuaib and made away with…
A Sokoto State High Court has sentenced a middle-aged man, Aminu Ibrahim, to four years imprisonment for raping a 9-year-old girl. Ibrahim was convicted on January 28, 2021, by the court presided over by Honourable Justice Muhammad Muhammad. The convict was dragged before the Court by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). …
