A man has been arrested by the police for beating his wife into a state of coma after he caught her having s*x with another man in their matrimonial bed. The 35-year-old man in Ghana, Kofi Bandoli, was arrested by Awutu Bereku district police station. It was gathered that the man went to work and […]

An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State, on Thursday, remanded a 48-year-old policeman, Apalowo Ola, who allegedly murdered a 27-year-old-man in a Lagos night club. Chief Magistrate, Mr M.A. Ajiferuke, who did not take the plea of Ola, ordered that he should be remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Facility for 30 days, pending […]

An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court, Isabo, Ogun, on Friday sentenced a 42-year-old man, Mutiu Babatunde, to three months imprisonment for defrauding a woman of N858,000. The Magistrate, Mrs Adenike Adeniji, sentenced Babatunde after she found him guilty of the seven-count charge bordering on conspiracy, obtaining money under false pretences and unlawful conversion. Adeniji held that the […]

A police officer in Umuaka village in Imo state allegedly shot dead an 18-year-old boy for retaliating when the officer slapped him. Awuzie Duru, 18, was allegedly killed within the premises of a new generation bank branch at Umuaka on Sunday, December 1. According to reports, Awuzie, popularly known as Aboy, from Isiozi Aka in […]

A 40-year-old man, Abiola Okubote, on Friday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly beating up a woman. Okubote, who resides at 8, Aluko Close, Oshodi in Lagos State, is being tried for assault and causing a breach of the public peace. The prosecutor, ASP Clifford Ogu, told the court that the defendant […]

Two farmers on Friday appeared before an Okitipupa Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ondo State over alleged forcible entry into farmland and stole logs of wood valued at N400,000. The farmers, Sunday Sobijor, 22,  and Peter Marcus, 35 whose addresses were not given are facing a three-count charge bordering on felony, trespassing and stealing. The prosecutor, […]

The Federal High Court sitting in Owerri has ordered the forfeiture of Dews of Hope hospital allegedly owned by an aide to the immediate former governor of Imo State and serving senator, Rochas Anayo Okorocha. Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC initially secured an interim forfeiture of the property on August […]

The police in Jigawa on Friday said they had arrested a herdsman, Usman Lamido, 30, in connection with the killing of a farmer, Abubakar Dauda, along Adyani Feeder Road in Guri Local Government Area of Jigawa. The spokesman for the police in the state, SP Abdu Jinjiri, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in […]

By Davies Iheamnachor – Port Harcourt A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has sentenced a former Branch Manager of the defunct Cooperative Development Bank, Aba, Abia State, Adekunle Oyeobu, to two and half years in prison for granting unauthorised loans to three different customers. The ruling was contained in a matter […]

Chief Ademola Odunade, the President of a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan, on Friday dissolved the 11-year-old marriage between one Kazeem Amzat and wife, Adijat, over sex starvation and adulterous lifestyle. In his judgment, Odunade held that the court had done everything possible to settle the problem between Kazeem and Adijat, all to no avail. […]