Crime

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I sell stolen cars to officers – ‘Naval rating’

A 50-year-old naval rating, Oyewole Femi, who is the head of a car snatching syndicate that operates in Lagos and its environs, has confessed to selli

Phone snatcher nabbed in Kubwa

A suspected phone snatcher was on Wednesday afternoon nabbed in Kubwa, a satellite town in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Police nab 11 over lynching of man mistaken for motorcycle thief in FCT council

The police in the FCT have arrested 11 suspects in connection with the lynching of a man identified as Salihu, by a mob, which mistook him for a motor

Farmer breaks into Abuja church, steals pulpit

A Dei-Dei Grade I Area Court, Abuja on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old farmer, Salisu Sule to 12 months imprisonment for stealing church glass pulpi

1 killed in Kogi robbery attack

Tension has gripped residents of Akpanya community in Igala Mela/Odolu LGA of Kogi State following the killing of one Peter Abah in a robbery attack.