An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama in Jos, on Monday sentenced a 19-year-old  cobbler, Umar Mohammed and a 20-year-old driver, Umar Lawal to two years imprisonment for extorting a phone from a man. The Judge, Lawal Suleiman however, gave them an option of fine of N10, 000 or six months for conspiracy and N40, […]

The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested 178 suspects in Kano metropolis for violating the law against street begging from September to November 2020. The Commander-General of the board, Mr Harun Ibn-Sina, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Monday. ”The suspects were arrested along Alu Avenue, […]

By Ndahi Marama – Maidugiri Notwithstanding recent killings of farmers and other attacks, statewide records on the 27 local government areas since 2011, indicate clearly that President Muhammadu Buhari has still performed better in handling Borno’s security challenges, the state’s governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has declared. Zulum stated this on Sunday, while addressing northern elders […]

By Peter Duru, Makurdi No fewer than three suspected armed bandits were Sunday night reportedly gunned down in a gun battle with troops of the joint military spike operation codenamed Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, at Adaka village, a suburb of Makurdi, the Benue state capital. Vanguard gathered from an eyewitness that the armed bandits stormed […]

The member representing Ibadan northwest/ Ibadan southwest federal constituency in the house of representatives, Hon Adedeji Olajide, on Saturday said he had concluded arrangements to sink no fewer than 50 motorised boreholes in the constituency. Apart from this, the lawmaker said he had designed programmes and projects in the critical areas and the areas being […]