A Karu Grade I Area Court on Wednesday, ordered a 25-year-old tailor, Yesmin Abdullahi, to sweep the court premises for two weeks for stealing a pack of Milo, chocolate malt beverage. Abdullahi, who resides in Gwarimpa, Abuja, pleaded guilty to criminal trespass and theft and begged for leniency. The judge, Inuwa Maiwada, did not give […]

A housewife, Maryam Muhammad, on Wednesday, prayed a Shari’a Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna to dissolve her 20-year-old marriage to her husband, Abdulhamid Yakubu. The complainant, a resident of Kontagora road in Kaduna metropolis, told the court that her husband had abandoned her sexually for almost 11 years. “He doesn’t take care of me, […]

Two unemployed men, who allegedly obtained N51 million from a woman under false pretences, were on Wednesday docked before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. The defendants: Rasheed Agboola, 30, and Ibrahim Adewale, 27, live on Owoyemi Street in Ajegunle area of Lagos. The duo are being tried for conspiracy, stealing and obtaining money on false […]

By Shina Abubakar – Osogbo Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen were reported to have killed a traveller and abducted others. The incident occurred on Tuesday evening at Ajebamidele village along Osogbo-Ibokun road around 7:30pm. A villager, Rufu Adekunle told Vanguard that the gun-wielding herdsmen blocked the road and stopped vehicles travelling along the route with […]

The Police Command in Rivers, on Tuesday, debunked rumour of gunmen’s attack on a bus filled with students of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic, Bori, in Khana area of Rivers.