Crime

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Bandits kill 1, free 12 abducted Abuja farmers

Bandits have shot dead one and set free 12 farmers they abducted at Kutunku and Gasakpa communities in Gurdi Ward of Abaji Area Council of the FCT. Ci

6 arrested as son hires cultists to kill Ogun monarch

The police in Ogun State have arrested six suspected members of Eiye cult group over attempted murder of the Oba of Gbokotoland in Yewa North Local Go

Man, 59, charged with destroying structure

A businessman, Leonard Okejiri (59), has been charged before an Abuja magistrates’ court for destroying a makeshift apartment better known as “batcher

Hoodlums raid houses in Abuja suburb, stab 2 residents

Hoodlums on Sunday attacked residents of Ikwa village near Zuba in Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT, stabbed two persons and dispossessed residents

Man remanded for using pieces of carton as money to buy clothes

A magistrates’ court in Maikunkele, headquarters of Bosso LGA of Niger State, has remanded a 26-year-old man, Hassan Sule, of Kuta, Shiroro LGA, for u