Crime

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Phone thief nabbed inside Kwara varsity mosque

A magistrates’ court in Ilorin, Kwara State, has remanded one Abdulazeez Abdulkadir for phone theft. The prosecutor, Gbenga Ayeni, told the court that

Kano judge remands fellow judges, registrars, cashier over N500m inheritance

A magistrates’ court in Kano has ordered the remand of a cashier with the Kano State Sharia Court Division, Hussaina Imam and 14 others, including jud

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