An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a 32-year-old software engineer, Chukwudi Anyanwu, to life imprisonment for defiling his neighbour’s 13-year old minor (name withheld). Justice Rahman Oshodi in his judgment on Tuesday held that the prosecution proved the charge of defilement against Anyanwu. Oshodi...
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National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu has said terrorism related deaths have drastically reduce in Nigeria from about 2,600 monthly to less than 200 currently. Ribadu made this known in an interview with newsmen on the sidelines of the High-Level African Counter-Terrorism Meeting, which opened on Monday in...
The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Christopher Musa, has commiserated with the Government and people of Kenya over the death of the country’s Chief of the Defence Forces, Gen. Francis Ogolla. The Kenyan Defence Chief and nine other senior military officers were killed in a helicopter crash...
The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has arrested a suspect over the murder of an elderly couple, Adebola Ezekiel, 80 and his wife, Abiodun Ezekiel, 79. The Commissioner of Police in charge of the FCT, Mr Benneth Igweh said this during a media briefing on...
An Osun High Court sitting in Osogbo, on Thursday, sentenced two convicts to death by hanging for armed robbery and murder . The convicts, Wasiu Afolayan, 36, and Kola Adeyemi 34, were arraigned on a five-count charge bordering on conspiracy, attempted robbery, armed robbery, possession of firearms...
By PAUL EJIME – Nigeria’s former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida, who was instrumental in the formation of ECOMOG, the regional Ceasefire Monitoring Group set up by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to end the civil war in Liberia, has made a strong case for...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – Press Release On Ongoing Military Operations By The Armed Forces Of Nigeria As At 14 March 2024 The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), has declared that the prerequisite of ongoing counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations by the military across the country is “defeating the...
By PAUL ADAJI, Abuja – The Nigerian Navy has expressed concern over the upsurge in cases of stowaways in Nigerian waters. Director of Information at the Naval headquarters, Commodore A. Adams-Aliu, who made this known in a statement, noted that between August 2023 and April 2024 alone, the Nigerian...
The trial of a pastor, Mr Emmanuel Orekoya, docked at the Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court for defiling his 17-year old daughter was stalled on Wednesday because of the absence of prosecution witnesses. Orekoya was first arraigned on Feb. 27 before Justice Abiola Soladoye on a...
A 42- year old woman, Ihuoma Onunyere, was on Wednesday docked in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing N2.1 million from her late boyfriend’s account. The defendant, a businesswoman, who resides in 16, Joseph Harrison St., Iwaya area, Yaba, Lagos, is charged with theft. She, however, pleaded...
The 11th prosecution witness, Dr Richard Somiari, in the alleged murder trial of Chidinma Ojukwu, said the DNA blood sample found on Chidinma’s red dress matched that of the victim, Usifo Ataga. Somiari, a Director and Consultant for the Lagos State DNA and Forensic Centre, gave his evidence...
A prosecution witness, Mr Gafar Ademolake, on Tuesday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how his 72-year-old father-in-law, Muritala Adebayo, (alias Oloriebi of Ajah) allegedly defrauded him of three cars and some millions of naira. Ademolake, who was led in evidence by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
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...
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...