A 34-year-old, Dan Ismaila, was on Thursday docked at an Abeokuta Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly forging receipts and stealing N1.39 million belonging to his employer, Mutual Benefits Life Assurance Ltd.

A bank robbery that occurred in Igede Ekiti, headquarters of Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area area of Ekiti State, late on Wednesday claimed two lives, while others sustained varying degrees of injury.

A robbery gang suspected to be cultists, engaged a team of policemen in a gun battle, in Owode area of Lagos Wednesday night, at the end of which one of them was gunned down.

A 29-year-old businessman, Oluwatobi Idowu, was on Thursday docked before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly obtaining N8 million from Daniel Oyemosu with false pretext of securing him visa.

Four suspected internet fraudsters were, yesterday, arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, for allegedly defrauding customers of a bank of about N1 billion.

KATSINA—An octogenarian herbalist, Hussaini Musa, was, yesterday, paraded by the Katsina State Police Command in connection with the beheading of a Police officer attached to 56 PMF, Special Duty, Operation Safe Haven, Jos, Plateau State.

Seven months after a notorious robbery kingpin and his gang killed a Police sergeant in Akala axis of Lagos State, officers in Area D Command, Mushin, have arrested the kingpin in an operation coordinated by the Commander in charge of Area D, ACP Akinbayo Olasoji.

Not fewer than three suspected cultist including an aged herbalist have been arrested by the Katsina State Police Command for killing a police officer, identified as Sergeant Unana Ishaya attached to Operation Safe Haven, Jos, Plateau state.

A 54-year-old man, Tajudeen Oladega, was on Wednesday arraigned for allegedly obtaining the sum of N60 million from a new generation bank under the pretext of constructing a filling station.

Two housekeepers — Favour Sunday and Christopher Ikpam — who allegedly stole their employer’s 10,000 pounds (N4.7 million), on Wednesday appeared in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court.

A 28-year-old farmer, Amisu Bello, is to serve six months in prison after a Magistrates’ Court in Minna, Niger, convicted him of stealing 13 crates of egg.

The Catholic Diocese of Orlu, is in the news again, albeit for the wrong reason. One of its priests, Rev. Fr. Jude Chidi Egbom, was gruesomely murdered by armed hoodlums. This happened when the Local Ordinary, Most Rev. Augustine Tochukwu Ukwuoma, was attending a meeting of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, in far away Sokoto State.

A 31-year-old member of a notorious robbery gang, Olatunde Adetunji, arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, has said their armourer normally covered their bag of guns with baskets and sacks, where she sells tomatoes and pepper in the market.

The Police Command in Plateau said gunmen had killed a 62-year-old man, John Atu, and injured three members of his household at Kwall village of Miango District in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau.

A 35-year-old man, Samuel Gbodogbe, was on Monday brought before a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly raping a 67-year-old woman, Mrs Ayinke Ogunade.