Crime

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Attempt to kidnap Kano village head foiled

The police and members of vigilante group in Kano State have foiled an attempt to kidnap the village head of Garin Babba village, Abdulmuminu Mudi, of

Woman, daughter beat up landlord in Ondo

A 54-year-old trader, Mrs Kike Adefeyinti, and her daughter, Oke Adefeyinti (29), were on Wednesday arraigned before an Okitipupa magistrates’ court,

I’m too poor to settle N96,500 debt, man tells court

A debtor, Ibrahim Shua’ibu, on Wednesday, told a Sharia court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, that he was too poor to settle a N96,500 debt he

3 Benue farmers accused of killing, throwing 70-year-old man in river

A magistrates’ court in Makurdi on Wednesday ordered the remand of three farmers, Orngu Shuhu, Ityonenge Azungur and Andrew Ber, in the correctional f

Bandits hit Ango Abdullahi’s family again, abduct daughter-in-law, four children

One month after Sadiq, one of the sons of Elder Statesman Ango Abdullahi, was released from captivity, bandits have abducted the daughter-in-law of th