The Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Ahmadu Ali(rtd), Thursday told the House of Representatives that the agency’s biggest problem in trying to stem arms smuggling is border communities ganging up against his officers.

A Grade I Area Court in Mpape, Abuja, on Thursday, sentenced a businessman, Aminu Shittu to nine months imprisonment for receiving stolen property. The Judge, Salihu Ibrahim, sentenced Shittu after he pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property. Ibrahim gave the convict an option to pay a fine of N20, 000. Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, M.M […]

A 41-year-old woman, Edith Oteri, who allegedly sent fake bank credit alert of N30,000 to another, on Thursday appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. The police charged Oteri, with fraud and theft under Sections 314 and 287 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. She pleaded not guilty to the charge. The Prosecution […]

By Chioma Onuegbu – Uyo Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Etinan, has nullified the ancient traditional practice in Etinan Local Government Area, which prohibits women and female children the rights to inherit their fathers and relatives’ landed property. Justice Pius Idiong delivered his judgment in the case brought before the court by eight […]

All the 279 Zamfara schoolgirls released by kidnappers this week were on Wednesday reunited with their parents, in an emotional event overshadowed by chaos and shooting by security forces, an AFP reporter saw. Angered by officials’ insistence on a formal handover before parents could leave with their children, mobs began throwing stones at officials outside the […]