TWO High Courts sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State have sentenced five persons, including a house help, to death by hanging for the death of a woman and a National Youth Service Corps member, Mrs Helen Ibiba Bobmanuel and Sampson Worlu. READ ALSO While Justice Silverline Iragonima convicted and sentenced one Telema Amaso, a house…
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Former Chrisland Schools Supervisor, To Spend 60-Years In Prison For Sexual Assault On 4-Year-Old
A Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has upheld the 60-year sentence handed to a former supervisor at Chrisland School, Victoria Garden City, Lagos Adegboyega Adenekan for defiling a two-year-old pupil of the school. Delivering judgment in the appeal on Monday, the three-member panel led by Justice Mohammad Garba unanimously affirmed the judgment of the…
60-Year-Old Raped In Niger
A MAN has been arrested in Niger State for stealing into a 60-year-old woman’s apartment while she was asleep, and raping her. Sani Garba, 32, committed the offence in Kuspa area of Suleja Local Government Area of the state, police said. The 60-year-old reported the assault and the suspect, who lives in the same community…
Return Mompha’s International Passport, Wristwatches , IPhone — Court Orders EFCC
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered anti-graft agency, EFCC to release all items seized from BDC operator, Ismaila Mustapha aka Mompha. These items include five luxury wristwatches, an apple iPod, an iPhone 8 device and a pair of sunglasses, which were among other items found on him on his arrest last October…
Gunmen Ambush Prison Officials, Free Six Suspects
Gunmen believed to be herdsmen have attacked a convoy of correctional officials near Plateau High Court, Barkin Ladi, freeing six criminal suspects. The convoy was said to be conveying 14 suspects charged with crimes ranging from murder to kidnapping and rape, The Nation learnt. READ ALSO An eyewitness said as the convoy arrived the court…
Police Arrest 4 Teenagers After Car Snatching Operation In 2016
It was reported that 4 teenagers were arrested by Accra Police in Ghana after a car theft in 2016. READ ALSO They were apprehended after an alarm was raise at the point where they went to sell the said car as scrap. Read the report from 2016 below; Police in Fadama in the Greater Accra…
Musician In Police Net For Alleged Rape Of 12-Year-Old Girl
A musician in Imo State, Uba Obinna Agbaso, popularly known as ‘Ababanna’ is currently cooling off in a police division at Agbala in Owerri North council area of the following his alleged rape of a 12-year old girl. Ababanna, who allegedly serially raped the underaged girl, was said to have forcibly had carnal knowledge of…
Notorious Criminal Alleged To Be Son Of Lagos Sovereign Is Arrested During Operation
Police operatives from Satellite Town in Lagos have apprehended the notorious leader of a gang and he reportedly claimed he was the son of a Lagos monarch. The man identified as Yusuf, AKA Prince, was arrested at Abule Oshun where he allegedly led his gang to a warehouse to rob and extort the owners. READ…
I Only Got N500 For Killing Assignments From My Boss — Ibadan Serial Killer Confesses
The suspected brains behind the series of killings perpetrated in Akinyele Area of Oyo State, 19-year-old Sunday Sodipe, has said that the only financial reward he got each time he killed for his herbalist trainer was the paltry sum of N500. Sodipe, who said he was taken to a herbalist named Adedokun Ajani for apprenticeship,…
NDDC: I Was Pressured To Spend N10b As Christmas ‘Palliatives’ — Nunieh
The immediate past Acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Joy Nuniel, told on Friday of how pressure was mounted on her to give out Christmas palliatives last year to the tune of N10 billion. Had she yielded, each of the states under the operations of the commission would have collected a minimum…
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