Crime

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Court frees 2 friends accused of raping 11-year-old girl

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Thursday discharged and acquitted two friends, Michael Isaac and Oluwaseyi Samuel, charged wit

Human trafficking: Woman bags 3 years jail in Benin

The Benin Division of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria has sentenced a human trafficker, Fatima Joy Odiri Joseph, to three years imprisonment

Student, 15, arraigned over threat to kill woman

A 15-year-old male student, Ogunbona Damilare Kehinde, has been arraigned before a magistrates court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, for criminal inti

Mom, daughter, 1 other jailed three years for selling baby

The Benin Division of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria yesterday sentenced a woman, Mrs Ebere Okafor, her daughter, Peace Okafor, and one Ms O

Court remands kidnappers of UI ex-DVC

An Iyaganku magistrates’ court sitting in Ibadan on Thursday ordered that six men be remanded in a correction centre for kidnapping a former Deputy Vi