By Evelyn Usman Five persons including a 15-year-old boy have been arrested in Ojo Area of Lagos for stealing female underwears. A 15-year-old boy who was among the arrested suspects confessed to have been stealing female underwears in the area for about a year. The teenager, Chukwajekwu Eziigbo, was arrested alongside three other teenagers and […]

At least one person has been confirmed dead, following Saturday’s fire that gutted the Mgbuka Obosi Spare Parts Market in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), however, learnt that the deceased, identified simply as G.O.D and Chairman of Zone 11 in the market, did not die in the inferno. […]

By Ozioruva Aliu – Benin City The Benin Magistrate Court 6 sitting in Benin City has sentenced a 26 years old David James to three years imprisonment without option of fine for vandalizing electricity equipment owned by Benin Electricity Distribution Company Plc. The accused was sentenced on a two-count charge of stealing armoured cable wires […]

The police on Friday arraigned one Oguntola Adisa in an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives in Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro-Abeokuta, of N2.7 million. Adisa, who resides at No. 7, Olupeju Avenue, Obada Oko, is facing a three-count charge of fraud, stealing and conspiracy. The Prosecutor, Insp Olu-Balogun […]

An unemployed man, Faniyi Ajibola, 27, who allegedly stole two bottles of Holy Communion wine, soaps and sachet of salt worth N46,000 from a Church in Mushin, Lagos, on Friday appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. Ajibola, who resides in Mushin, Lagos, is charged with theft and breach of peace, but he pleaded not […]

By David Odama – Lafia A man, Yahaya Orogu has been hacked to death by unknown assailants in Nasarawa State. The deceased whose body was found lifeless by the roadside in Amaku village,  Doma Local Government was seen with deep cuts inflicted on his head and other parts of the body. Residents in the area, […]

Shina Abubakar – Osogbo The Osun State Police Command on Wednesday disclosed that it arrested one Ojo Ibrahim while trying to steal some electrical appliances in a transformer. The man, it was gathered was in the thick of his operation when power was restored to the transformer. He was said to have committed the alleged […]

By Ugochukwu Alaribe – Umuahia The Police in Abia State has confirmed the arrest of a member of a kidnapping gang on the wanted list of the Intelligence Response Team, IRT. The suspect identified as Darlington Olewumbu, a native of Obazu Mbieri in Mbaitoli council of Imo State, is said to be a member of […]

An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ court in Ibadan on Wednesday, ordered that a 32-year- old Odunayo Aliu,who allegedly took and sent nude images of a his girlfriend, be remanded in a correctional centre, pending legal advice. The police charged Aliu, who resides in Odeku, Ibadan, with making pornographic images and sending it to people. Chief Magistrate […]

A commercial bus, on Tuesday, crushed a teenager (name withheld) around Wazobia axis of Ogere toll gate on the Lagos/Ibadan expressway. Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Spokesperson of the Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abeokuta. Akinbiyi said that the accident, which occurred at about […]