Navy shuts down ‘illegal’ maritime academy, arrests proprietor
The Captain of the Nigerian Navy Ship Jubilee in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, has closed down an illegal maritime institution, and arrested four perso
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Ex-cop to hang for murder in Bayelsa
A Bayelsa State High Court in Yenagoa has sentenced one Corporal Vincent Olama, a dismissed police officer, to death by hanging for killing a 17-year-
Sexagenarian, 2 teenagers docked over sodomy
The police in Lagos on Friday arraigned a sexagenarian, Rabiu Tanko, and two teenage boys, Mohammed Samiu, and one other alleged to have been engaged
Man, 34, remanded for clubbing man to death
An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Lagos, on Friday, remanded a 34-year-old man, Idris Habib, accused of bludgeoning a man to death. Habi
Teenager’s rape: Victim’s family cries foul over suspect’s bail
The family of a serially-raped teenager in Benue State on Sunday raised alarm on suspicion of clandestine bail granted an accused, Andrew Ogbuja, who