Men of Ogun state police command in the early hours of Saturday, February 27, arrested two armed robbery suspects while operating at Shagamu interchange area of Lagos/Ibadan expressway. The two suspects, Solomon Aghofure a 30 years old indigene of Delta state, and Emmanuel Mathew a 37 years old indigene of Abia State were arrested when the…
A man has been sent to prison over failure to produce the suspect he stood for as surety. Mr. Gajah Omayulele Lovely was arraigned before Justice G. O. Imadegbelo of the Edo State High Court sitting in Benin City on Tuesday, February 23. According to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr.Lovely…
A woman believed to be a commercial sex worker has been arrested by the police in Ebonyi state for allegedly trying to sell her baby for N40,000. The 32-year-old woman identified as Victoria Chukwube, was arrested while trying to sell her four-month-old baby boy to raise money to start a business of selling drinks. Ebonyi state police…
Salihu Yahaya, an ex-aide of former Governor of Adamawa state Boni Haruna, has been arraigned before an Upper Area Court III in Yola for allegedly calling his former wife, Maryam Tabah, an adulterer. Maryam Tabah had accused her ex-husband of spreading lies of her being an adulterer after they seperated. She alleged that Yahaya who she was married to…
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…
