A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that a 23-year-old labourer, Shehu Abbas, be given 12 strokes of cane for stealing a Tecno phone valued at 56,000. Abbas, resident of Kawo in Kaduna State, was convicted after pleading guilty to the charge of theft and begged for leniency. The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, said the […]

A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced a 25-year-old carpenter, James Gabriel, to three months’ imprisonment for buying a stolen Tecno cell phone. The convict, a resident of Sabo Tasha Kaduna, had pleaded guilty to a charge of dishonestly receiving and purchasing stolen property and begged for leniency. Magistrate Ibrahim Emmanuel sentenced him to […]

A Central Area Court, sitting in Kasuwan Nama, in Jos on Tuesday, dissolved the union between Maryam Usman and Rabiu over the latter’s alleged deceit. Delivering judgment, a panel of judges, presided by Ghazali Adam and Hyacenth Dolnanan, granted the divorce to the petitioner, Usman. They held that Rabiu lied to her when he promised […]

The Benue State Police Command has confirmed the killing of a student of Benue State University,  Jessica Agee, by gunmen. The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Catherine Anene, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday that the student was killed at her residence at Gadyo Villa in Makurdi on Monday night. According […]

A 25-year-old man, Gaddafi Abdullahi, on Monday prayed a Shari’a court in Kaduna State to recover N68,000 dowry from his former fiancée’s brother, Abu Tanko. The complainant, who resides in Rigasa, Kaduna, told the court that he sought Tanko’s sister, Rabi’s hand in marriage and paid N60,000 dowry and N8,000 as an introduction fee. “A […]