Crime

Oladega appeared before an Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos facing a four-count charge bordering on obtaining under false pretext, fraud and issuing a dud cheque.

Two housekeepers — Favour Sunday and Christopher Ikpam — who allegedly stole their employer’s 10,000 pounds (N4.7 million), on Wednesday appeared in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

Osaretin, a meat seller, told the News Agency of Nigeria that she got to the ATM stand by 6am to withdraw cash for her to get to the abattoir early.

A woman, Maimuna Mamman, and her son, Husseini Mohammadu, were on Wednesday remanded in police custody over the alleged killing of one Safiya Abubakar.

The plea of Lazarus, who is facing a two-count charge of sexual assault and rape, was not taken because of the nature of the offences.

The Enugu State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of an Enugu-based Methodist cleric, Rev. Kenneth Okafor, over his alleged involvement in the murder of a monarch in Enugu State.

The students were said to have been killed by the suspected cult members during a graduation party in the Judges Quarters area of the town on Tuesday when a fight broke out at the party

The eyes of of the policeman were among exhibits recovered from the suspects

The accused, including Kazeem Agbabiaka, 40; Abdulrasheed Ojonla, 45; Femi Oyebode, 30; Babatunde Oluajo, 50; and Adebiyi Kehinde, 42, are being tried for conspiracy and fraud.

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Wednesday mourned the demise of his Special Adviser on Investments, Sunday Ozege, who was killed on Tuesday by suspected gunmen along the Benin bypass in Edo State.

A 28-year-old farmer, Amisu Bello, is to serve six months in prison after a Magistrates’ Court in Minna, Niger State convicted him of stealing 13 crates of egg.

The Nigerian Army on Tuesday said it had neutralizes five Boko Haram insurgents in separate operations in Bama Local Government Areas (LGA) of Borno.

Joshephine Obi, the agency’s Commander in the state who confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Dutse on Tuesday, said the exercise took place on Sept. 6 in Dutse.

The UK Minister of State for Immigration, Caroline Noakes, made the assertion during her visit to some facilities of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons in Lagos

Market Development in Niger Delta II, a DFID funded two-year programme using market systems to raise the incomes of at least 155,000 poor people, 50 per cent of whom will be women, will hold workshops on ways to reduce human trafficking.

In its continuous effort to rid the state of illicit drugs and banned substances, the operatives of Lagos State Police Command, attached to Maroko Division, on Sunday at about 12pm while on routine anti crime patrol, intercepted a…

Human rights group, Global Amnesty Watch, has urged the Federal Government to adopt a total clampdown on fleeing elements of terrorist group, Boko Haram sect.

The President of the Chemical Society of Nigeria, Prof. Sunday Okeniyi, has commended agencies of the Federal Government on the campaign against substandard as well as fake drugs and chemical products.

An Italian Catholic Priest who was working as a Missionary in Niger Republic has been kidnapped, a Vatican news agency reported on Tuesday.

The accused, a resident of Alafia Street, Ikeja, is facing a two-count charge of reckless driving and manslaughter to which he pleaded not guilty.