An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court sitting in Isabo, on Wednesday, remanded a 25-year-old woman for allegedly causing grievous harm to a 12-year -old girl by inserting a piece of burning firewood into her private part. The defendant, who resides at No 6 Isewo Dotin, in Obada-Oko area in Abeokuta, is facing …
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Abba Kyari, the suspended deputy commissioner of police who was granted a three-week bail to bury his mother, is back in prison for alleged drug deals. The federal high court sitting in Abuja denied him bail after the expiration of the temporary bail. Justice Emeka Nwite in his ruling held …
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The ongoing face-off between the Police Service Commission, PSC, and the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, over the recently conducted recruitment exercise for constables into the Force on Wednesday took another dimension as the workers of the Commission under the umbrella of “Joint Union Congress of the Police Service Commission” called …
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The officers of the Special Operation Unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have seized cocaine and methamphetamine consignments worth over N4.1 billion in Aba, Abia state. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, June 16, …
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A police officer, along with two suspected armed robbers, was reportedly killed as security operatives comprising police, and the military foiled a deadly bank robbery attack in Abuja. The marauding gunmen had, on Thursday evening, attempted to rob a commercial bank, First Bank, with explosive devices in Abaji, a suburb …
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THE Delta State High Court sitting at Asaba on Tuesday sentenced Inspector Ubi Ebri of the Nigeria Police Force to death on a murder charge. The court presided over by Justice C. D. Diai convicted and sentenced the Inspector to death for killing a phone dealer, Mr Onyeka Ibeh, in …
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The Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, sentenced 12 internet fraudsters to various jail terms. While Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu convicted and sentenced 11 internet fraudsters – Nwaeke Vitalis Ndubisi, Kingsley Goodnews, Inyang Victor, Ekere-Obong Adams, Usang Enang, Ogudu James, Arinze …
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THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has through the Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, recovered 20 properties, 10 vehicles, and three princely wristwatches from two brothers, Olisaebuka Eze and Onyeka Nnadozie Eze, for a petitioner, Arthur Eze. In a final forfeiture ruling on Friday, June 7, 2024, by a …
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THE Police Command in Katsina State has confirmed the killing of no fewer than 20 people, four police officers and two operatives of the state-owned Community Watch Corps by some suspected bandits. ASP Abubakar Sadiq-Aliyu, the command’s Public Relations Officer, disclosed this in a statement in Katsina on Monday. According …
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A Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in the Apo area of Abuja has sentenced a staff of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Quadri Ismail Adeyinka, to seven years imprisonment for committing international passport fraud. The Immigration officer was sentenced to prison after he was arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices …
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