The FCT Police Command has reunited 15 children, who were victims of trafficking, with their parents on Monday. In February 2020, the children aged between two and 13 years, were deceptively taken from their parents in Lapai in Niger State by one Emmanuel Abraham, 30, and Nkechi Udoh, 53, under the pretext of providing them education.

A businessman, Abideen Adebayo, on Tuesday urged an Ile-Tuntun Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve the 27-year-old marriage between him and his wife, Sherifat. He told the court that Sherifat and two of their four children were in the habit of bettering him, hence his request for divorce. “Sherifat is such a disobedient and troublesome […]

Zamfara state has scaled back a curfew imposed on Jangebe town where hundreds of schoolgirls were abducted last month, residents said Tuesday. The 279 girls were abducted on February 26 from the Government Secondary School in Jangebe by bandits. They were released five days later, in the latest mass kidnapping to target schools. But a […]

Hundreds of Nigerian refugees returned home from Cameroon on Monday, seven years after they were displaced by Boko Haram jihadists and forced to seek shelter across the border, the UN said. Xavier Bourgois, spokesman of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Cameroon, said the returnees comprised “100 families, that is to say 342 people”. […]

A 39-year-old man, Ikechukwu Chokuba, who allegtedly falsely presented himself as an army officer and assaulted a police officer, was on Monday brought before an Ejigbo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Chokuba, whose residential address was not given, is standing trial on a three-count charge bordering on assault and impersonation. The prosecutor, Insp. Benedict Aigbokhan, told […]