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Justice Lekan Olatawura of the Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti, on Tuesday sentenced former Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) official, Olukayode Dayo, to life imprisonment on rape charges. The 39-year-old convict was charged with one count of rape on March 13, 2022. He was charged with desecrating a 13-year-old girl in the state. Prosecutor Julius Ajibare told …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested two members of a drug cartel behind the production and distribution of the deadly psychoactive substance, methamphetamine, popularly called “mkpuru mmiri” in Imo State. NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. He said a 42-year-old syndicate leader, Joachin Mbonu, and his …

Michael Mowete, a school bus driver, has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing a three-year-old girl (name withheld). The ruling was delivered on Tuesday by Justice Rahman Oshodi at the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court. In his ruling, Justice Oshodi stressed the strength of the prosecution case in proving the charges beyond a reasonable doubt. …

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Monday, handed over the baton of office to the newly crowned Elempe Tapa, Oba Titiloye Oyekanmi, during a ceremony held at the Elempale Community Senior High School in the city. Representing the governor, Deputy Governor Bayo Lawal emphasized the important role of Elempe in fostering unity, peace and progress in the society. He …

A man, whose identity is still being withheld, on Monday, climbed a pole on Katampe Hill in Abuja, declaring his readiness to sacrifice his life to solve the problems facing Nigerians. According to a suicide note found at the base of the ship’s mast, he demanded the restoration of fuel subsidies among other measures to alleviate the hardships facing Nigerians. …

Kaduna State Police spokesman Mansir Hassan has confirmed the abduction of two journalists, AbdulGafar Alabelewe, Chairman of the NUJ State Council Correspondents Chapel, and three members of his family by gunmen on Saturday night. According to Hassan, those who were kidnapped were Blueprint Newspaper correspondent Abdulraheem Aodo and his wife. In a statement on Sunday, a police spokesman said the …

Justice Oyindamola Ogala of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Thursday, July 4, 2024, adjourned the further hearing to October 24, 2024 in the alleged N4.8 billion fraud case involving Cletus Ibeto, Chairman, Ibeto Energy Development Company. Ibeto together with Ibeto Energy Development Company and Odoh Holdings Ltd will be arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Eradication …

Police officers on Thursday killed nine suspected kidnappers in a gunfight in the state’s Ladipo area. Spokesperson of the state police command, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to journalists at the command headquarters in Ikeja on Friday. He said: “It gives us great pleasure to inform the people of the state that the Lagos State Police Command under the leadership of …

An unidentified man on Saturday dived into the Gbodofon River in Osun State. An eyewitness told reporters that the middle-aged man complained that he was tired of life and jumped into the river in the state capital, Osogbo, at 10:30 am. “I saw him coming towards me on the bridge and seemed to mutter something in Yoruba that sounded like …

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Friday handed over a convict to the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) in Imo State. The state commander of NSCDC, Mr. Matthew Ovye, handed over the 28-year-old suspect shortly after he paraded the suspect and one other person before journalists in Owerri. Ovye said the suspect, Chinonso Kalu, was arrested by NSCDC …