Crime

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Court remands Lagos pastor for defiling teenager

An Ikeja magistrates’ court on Thursday remanded a 50-year-old pastor, Lawrence Omoniyi, in the Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling a

Police neutralise 3 gunmen, recover arms

The police in Ebonyi State have neutralised three and arrested two suspected gunmen. This was contained in a statement on Wednesday by SP Onome Onovwa

Trader jailed 2 years for stealing 2 cows

A magistrates’ court in Jos, Plateau State, on Thursday, sentenced a 32-year-old trader, Abdullahi Shuaibu, to two years in prison for stealing two co

Kano man remanded for stabbing police officer

A magistrate’s court sitting in Gyadi-Gyadi, Kano, has remanded one Salim Sani for allegedly stabbing a police officer, Nazifi Abdullahi, with a knife

4-year-old boy’s genitals, tongue, eyes removed in Abuja

The corpse of a four-year-old boy, Eleazar Ishiya, has been found inside a manhole adjacent to Mr Biggs at the Jabi area in Abuja three days after he