A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Wednesday, ordered the remand of three men, who allegedly had unnatural sexual intercourse with 11 underaged boys. The police charged Uzaifa Rabiu, Aminu Ahmed and Mohammed Bello, all residents of Jakara Quarters, Kano, with committing unnatural offences. The Chief Magistrate, Auwal Yusuf-Suleiman,...
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The Chief Judge of Taraba, Justice Joel Agya, on Friday sentenced Yusufa Adamu and Adamu Abdullahi to death by hanging for kidnapping Balkisu Kambe and Maryam Musa in Gashaka Local Government Area of the state. Agya, while delivering the judgement in Jalingo, said the prosecution had proven...
The police command in Niger State on Friday said it arrested a man who allegedly impregnated a 15-year old in an uncompleted building in Tayi Village near Minna. The command’s spokesman, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, disclosed this to journalists in Minna. He said that the teenager (name withheld) was...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Thursday sentenced a 100-level university part-time student of Computer Science, Emmanuel Victor, to 18 months imprisonment for online dating scam. Justice Rahman Oshodi sentenced Victor to 18 months’ imprisonment, after he pleaded guilty to the charge of possession of fraudulent document, leveled against...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Nigerian Army troops have neutralized a notorious terrorist leader, Maikusa, who is identified to be the second-in-command in the hierarchy of the terrorists’ cell in Katsina state, led by the infamous terrorist known as Modi Modi. Troops gunned down Maikusa and three other...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have arrested a middle aged deportee in Ondo State over alleged visa scam. NSCDC Commandant in Ondo State, Mr Oluyemi Ibiloye, paraded the suspect before newsmen on Tuesday in Akure. Ibiloye said the suspect was arrested in Akure after he...
Freeman and Ali were arrested in New Jersey on February 17, 2021, and have appeared before a Manhattan Federal Court. Asante and Aning were also arrested the same day (February 17, 2021) but in Virginia, with authorities saying they had been arraigned before the United States District Court...
An Ikeja High Court on Friday has ordered that hearing notice be served on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the case of a businessman, Chief Cletus Ibeto, charged with N4.8 billion fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Oyindamola Ogala ordered that...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Monday played host to participants of United States of America Air War College at the Armed Forces Complex in Abuja. While welcoming the participants who were on a study tour of the DHQ , the Chief of the...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, has declared that as the Armed Forces of Nigeria and other security agencies continue to work tirelessly to improve the nation’s security, the non-kinetic efforts of the military have produced appreciable outcomes complementing its kinetic...
At least 15 Catholic worshippers have been killed in a Burkina Faso village when gunmen attacked a community as they gathered for mass at a church in the country’s conflict-hit northern region, church officials said. Sunday’s violence in the village of Essakane was a “terrorist attack” that left 12...
On 14 February the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) confirmed that two of its soldiers had been killed in a militant attack on its base in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) North Kivu region earlier that day. The attack was carried out by the M23 rebel group...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Zonal Coordinator, Sokoto Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Abubakar Sabo has decried that lecturers in Nigeria’s universities have been on same salary regime since 2009. Professor Abubakar, who made the disclosure at a press conference held in...
The policep command in Cross River on Thursday paraded a 30-year-old man who allegedly macheted his lover for failing to show up in his house on the last Valentine’s Day. The police alleged that Amber Ubung carried out the act when his lover, Blessing Onawu, 25, reneged...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC (EFCC), Abuja Zonal Command has arrested 11 suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as yahoo boys. EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Mr. Oyewale said the suspected yahoo boys were...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Matawalle, has reiterated the ban on unauthorised use of camouflage uniforms in the country. Matawalle stated this in a statement issued by the Director, Information, Press and Public Relations of the ministry, Mr Henshaw Ogubike He...
The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) has arrested a Director of Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Ltd, Mr James Nolan, on Jan. 27 in Italy. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reliably gathered that Nolan, an Irish national, who jumped bail in 2022 in the ongoing 9.6 billion...
A 28 year-old man Sikuru Morufu was on Thursday arraigned before a Mapo Chief Magistrate Court in Ibadan for allegedly stealing N3,000 from a commercial sex worker. The Presiding Chief Magistrate, Mrs O.O. Latunji had admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N100,000 with two reliable...
Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, on Monday, convicted and sentenced the trio of Aisha Alkali Wakil ( a.k.a Mama Boko Haram) Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Soyade to ten years imprisonment. The defendants were jailed upon being arraigned by the...
Some hoodlums on Monday attacked officials of NAFDAC who were on enforcement operation against substandard drugs in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the officials were attacked by the hoodlums during a raid at Area 1 motor park. The hoodlums harassed the enforcement officers...