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. […]

A serial rapist, Joseph McCann has been convicted at the Old Bailey for a string of rapes after he went on cocaine and vodka-fuelled rampage. Metro UK reports that a jury found him guilty of all 37 counts against 11 victims he targeted across London, Hertfordshire and the North West between April 20 and May […]

The Kaduna Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested one Mallam Abdulrashid Imam for defrauding one Arc. Mohammed Dewu of N3million and $24,000 USD.  Dewu had alleged in a petitioner that, sometime in October, 2019 the suspect fraudulently collected money from him claiming to have the supernatural ability to impact Qur’anic knowledge […]

No fewer than 17 persons escaped death in a multiple crash involving three vehicles on the old Enugu-Onitsha expressway in Anambra. The accident occurred on the Nkpor/Umuoji stretch of the road. Mr Pascal Anigbo, the Public Enlightenment Officer of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) confirmed the crash to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). […]

Police in Anambra State arrested a 34-year-old pastor who allegedly had unlawful carnal knowledge of a fifteen-year-old girl at a hotel. The pastor in charge of Mount Zion Deliverance Ministry, Ugamuma village, Obosi allegedly lured his daughter to a hotel along Eze Iweka road Obosi under the false pretence of making deliverance prayers for her. […]

By Soni Daniel – Abuja Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami said the Federal Government will comply with Wednesday’s Federal High Court ruling mandating his office to retrieve billions of Naira paid to former governors as pensions. Malami said his office will, however, be guided by the public interest in […]

An EFCC witness on Monday testified before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin how he paid the embattled General Manager of Kwara State Television Authority (Kwara TV), Alhaji Abdulfatai Adewale Adebowale a sum of N2.3 million. The witness, Sulyman Abdulkareem said the money was for four plots of land […]

Ben Agande – Kaduna The detained leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem El Zakzaky has been transferred to Kaduna correctional centre from the custody of the Department of state services where he had been held for several months. His transfer followed an order by the Kaduna State high court Judge, Gideon Kudafa […]

…28 suspects nabbed By Olasunkanmi Akoni A paramilitary officer, Mr Innocent Okoro, an official of the Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, on Thursday, sustained severe injury when the taskforce team was allegedly attacked by 14 commercial motorcyclists, popularly called “Okada” riders at under bridge, Oshodi area of the state. Chairman of the […]