A Jos Magistrates’ Court on Friday sentenced a 28-year-old trader, Senlong Sule, to one year imprisonment for damaging the windshield of a tricycle. Magistrate Shawomi Bokkos summarily sentenced Sule after he pleaded guilty. Bokkos, however, gave the convict an option to pay a N20,000 fine and also ordered him to pay N35,000 as compensation to…
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested four suspected armed robbers terrorising Ikorodu and its environs. The Command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest in a statement issued on Friday. He said the suspects were arrested by the CP’s Tactical Squad on Thursday at about 1.00 am through credible information. Hundeyin said the suspects,…
A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Apo, on Thursday, granted bail in the sum of N50m to a former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye. The court had ordered his remand in the Kuje Correctional Service pending the hearing of his bail application over an alleged $6 billion fraud in connection to the Mambilla Hydroelectric…
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has called for the collaboration and assistance of traditional rulers in combating oil theft in Rivers State. The NDDC Executive Director of Finance, Boma Iyaye made the call during the Commission’s interactive session with members of the Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers, on Tuesday in Port Harcourt. The…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has secured the conviction of one Benjamin Ikaa who was arraigned before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment for his involvement in $1.6million cryptocurrency fraud. The commission disclosed this in a statement shared on its social media on Thursday….
Bandits have again kidnapped a director, Centre for Research of the Federal University Gusau in Zamfara State, Bello Janbako. Janbako, who is also a senior lecturer at the university’s Department of Islamic Studies, was kidnapped in his residence in Damba Gusau, the state capital on Wednesday. A resident of the area, Nasamu Garba told newsmen…
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, says the Nigerian Army has arrested the soldier who ranted against Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for ordering the arrest of his colleague for driving against traffic on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway. Lagbaja, who addressed journalists on Tuesday in Enugu, said the Army is displeased with the conduct…
The Jigawa State Police Command has apprehended five suspected vandals, drug dealers and thieves. DSP Lawan Shiisu Adam, the command’s Public Relations Officer, confirmed that the police recovered a Dane gun, knife, gunpowder, charms, vandalised cable wire, Illicit drugs, and food items, among others, from the suspects. He further explained that on 1st January 2024…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos, on New Year’s Day, intercepted a consignment of colorado, a very strong strain of cannabis, concealed in boxing kits imported from the United States of America. The spokesperson for the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi, revealed that a weeklong intelligence-led…
No fewer than 25 persons have given eyewitness accounts bordering on allegations of sexual assault, physical abuse, faked miracles and trauma -allegedly suffered in the hands of a late Nigerian pastor, Temitope Joshua, aka TB Joshua, BBC reports Monday. Joshua, one of Africa’s most influential religious leaders and richest pastors, had the world at his…