A Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State on Thursday sentenced a tenant, Ahmed Sulaiman to two weeks imprisonment over contempt. The Judge, Murtala Nasir, however, gave him an option to pay a fine of N15,000. He said the offence contravened the provisions of Section 299 of the Sharia Penal Code Law of Kaduna […]

A businessman, Segun Akintomide, 42, on Thursday appeared in a Gwagwalada Magistrates’ Court, FCT, for allegedly buying a stolen Honda CRV. The police charged Akintomide of starlight village, Madalla, Niger, with receiving stolen property. The Prosecution Counsel, Dabo Yakubu, told the court that sometime in 2019 the defendant bought a Honda CRV for N250,000 from […]

No fewer than 30 persons have been reported dead, killed by the inferno that resulted from the fuel tanker that lost control, rammed into vehicles and exploded around Felele area of Lokoja, Kogi State capital.

Some students of Kogi State Polytechnic, a school bus conveying primary and secondary school students, residents and passers-by have reportedly been consumed by a fire sparked by a fuel tanker explosion on Wednesday at Felele area of Lokoja, Kogi State capital.

By Evelyn Usman A staff of one of the nation’s electricity distribution companies, DISCOs, has been arrested by the Police in Lagos for allegedly drugging and defiling a 14-year-old girl in the Ejigbo area of Lagos. The suspect (name withheld), had gone to install prepaid meters for some residents of Akinwunmi Street, Ile-Epo area of […]

The Commissioner of Police, FCT, CP Bala Ciroma, has ordered an investigation into the murder of one Ifeoma Abugu, a graduate of the Institute of Management and Technology, IMT, Enugu.

Stakeholders Forum on Police Accountability, SFOPA, Lagos State, has honoured the outgoing Public Relations Officer of the state’s Police Command, Superintendent Bala Elkana, for outstanding performance in police accountability and public relations.

Awka— A 16-year-old suspected cultist was among the 81 criminals paraded by men of Anambra State Police Command on Monday. He had brought a double-barrelled gun to his (secondary) school compound at Igboukwu in Aguaata Local Government Area of the state.

By Dirisu Yakubu, Abuja The rains they say are showers of blessing but for residents of First Avenue, a riverside community located along the Kuje road, in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT; this appears not to be the case at the moment. This is because the torrential rains in the nation’s capital in the past […]

By Wole Mosadomi – Minna More startling revelations have come out of the ongoing screening of all categories of civil servants in Niger State as 80% of staff of the state Ministry of Education have been uncovered to be in the service for several years with forged certificates. Already, the principal actor of a syndicate […]