The Director, Kaduna State Fire Service, Mr Paul Aboi, on Wednesday, announced that the state recorded 32 fire incidences in Kaduna, Zaria and Kafanchan, resulting in one death, in June. Aboi added that four persons sustained injuries while three others were rescued by fire fighting personnel with property worth N87,000 destroyed and N581,000 worth saved. […]

Three men on Wednesday appeared in a Gwagwalada Magistrates’ Court, FCT, for allegedly damaging a bus belonging to a transporter. The police charged defendants, Okechukwu Alaribe, 38, Whyworry Peter, 27, and Nnoso Iwakor, 25, with criminal conspiracy, force and assault and mischief. The prosecution counsel, Dabo Yakubu, told the court that the complainant, Elochukwu Izundu, […]

A Magistrates’ Court in Gwagwalada, FCT, on Wednesday ordered that a driver, Danlami Ogah, 24, be remanded in police custody, for killing 10 cows and three sheep worth N2 million. Ogah, who pleaded guilty to the charges, is to be remanded in police custody pending judgment and sentencing. The Police had charged the defendant, who […]

The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested 20 children in Kano for violating the law against street begging. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Lawal Ibrahim, Public Relations Officer of the board in Kano. It quoted the Commander General of Hisbah, Dr Harun Ibn-Sina, as saying that all the 20 children, who […]

THE Presidency, on Tuesday, stated that it got the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, due to “cross-border cooperation” in a well-coordinated “international operation”.