An Ado-Ekiti High Courta has sentenced 22-year old Femi Dipo to 27 years imprisonment for breaking into three boutiques and stealing N200,000 cash, clothes, perfumes and other items. The convict, whose address was not given, was arraigned before Justice Blessing Ajileye on July 19, 2022 on a five...
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A Moroccan has been accused of knifing a pensioner to death in a UK street apparently in “revenge” for the Israel-Palestine conflict was turned down for asylum in Germany, his housemate told investigators. Ahmed Alid, 45, attacked sleeping Christian convert Javed Nouri at their shared accommodation in Wharton...
A Federal High Court in Lagos State, on Friday, sentenced convicted cross dresser, Idris Okuneye (alias Bobrisky), to six months in prison for abuse of the Naira. The court did not give the cross dresser an option of fine. Bobrisky was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial...
A German Magistrate has issued a detention order for a man suspected of stabbing a 4-year-old girl in a supermarket, police and the public prosecutor said on Friday. The 34-year old was ordered to be taken to a psychiatric hospital for attempted murder combined with dangerous bodily harm....
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, granted an interim order sought by the Department of State Service (DSS) to detain Emmanuel Osase, a Nigerian suspected to be a member of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for 60 days. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order...
The Nigerian Army has said a minor explosion occurred in a farmland near the Mammy Market within the Ikeja Cantonment in Lagos on Monday. The Director, Army’s Public Relations, Maj.-Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja. Nwachukwu said the explosion was suspected to have...
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, has said the sacrifice and courage are at the core of the professional calling as members of the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN). Musa said this in his Easter Message on Friday in Abuja. He expressed profound gratitude to...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – Despite the unfortunate loss of 17 soldiers in Delta state, troops of Nigerian military sustained the war on insecurity across the country, neutralizing 212 terrorists and other criminal elements as well as and arresting 252 persons in the last one week. Troops also...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a man, Ugochukwu Onuoha, to life imprisonment for defiling a five-year old minor, his neighbour’s daughter. Justice Rahman Oshodi, in his judgment, held that the prosecution had established beyond reasonable doubt, the charge of defilement against Onuoha. Oshodi...
The Police on Tuesday arraigned a 21-year old man, Mustapha Abubakar in a Karu Grade 1 Area Court, sitting in Abuja for allegedly stabbing neighbour with scissors. The defendant, who resides at Kugbo International Market, Abuja is being tried for criminal force without provocation and voluntarily causing hurt...
The arraignment of four suspects allegedly involved in the kidnapping of University of Abuja (UniAbuja) lecturers and their children in 2021 was, on Monday, stalled due to the commencement of Federal High Court (FHC) vacation. The matter, which was on number one on Justice Donatus Okorowo’s cause list,...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) says the abducted Kuriga students were rescued through coordinated search and rescue operation conducted by the military in collaboration with local authorities and government agencies. The primary and secondary school students abducted on March 7, were rescued in the early hour of Sunday. The...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Adm. Emmanuel Ogalla, has approved the appointment of Commodore Aiwuyor Adams-Aliu as the new Director of Naval Information and official Spokesperson for the Nigerian Navy. This Chief of Policy and Plans (Navy), Rear Adm. Joseph Akpan, disclosed...
A High Court in Ado Ekiti on Thursday sentenced a 28-year-old Ayodeji Alomoge to death by hanging for killing his wife’s lover. The convict was arraigned before Justice Jubril Aladejana in April 2023 on one count charge of murder. Delivering judgment, Justice Aladejana said:”to me, rivalry between men...
The police on Wednesday brought a 20-year-old man, Monday Ojo, before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court for alleged housebreaking and stealing of a pot of soup and other items. The defendant, who has no fixed address, is standing trial on a two-count charge of housebreaking and stealing....
Gunmen kidnapped the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (P on Friday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Aziegbemi was kidnapped at a spot close to his residence at the Government Reservation Area in Benin City. His abduction happened less than a month after the party’s...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Abakaliki on Friday ordered that a 35-year-old man, Monday Ikeagwu, be remanded in a correction centre for allegedly threatening to kill his own mother. The police charged Ikeagwu with threat to life and stealing N625, 000 belonging to his mother, Jacinta. The Magistrate,...
There was confusion on Thursday at a Federal High Court, Abuja, following amended charges filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), against Alli Bello, Daudu Suleiman, and the immediate-past Governor of Kogi. In the amended charge filed before Justice James Omotosho, the EFCC alleged that the...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Thursday sentenced a man, Nurudeen Nasiru, to life imprisonment for introducing porn video to his neighbour’s 13-year old daughter and sexually assaulting her. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution had...
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,...