Crime

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Unemployed man jailed 3 years for stealing kitchen sink

A Karu Grade I Area Court in Abuja on Tuesday sentenced a 24-year-old unemployed man, Emmanuel Elom to three years imprisonment for stealing a kitchen

Police raid baby factories, rescue 10 pregnant victims in Rivers

The police command in Rivers says it has rescued 12 victims of child trafficking during a sting operation on two suspected baby factories in the state

I was tortured for 20 days in Kwara army barracks, extorted of N1m, man tells court

A ‘kidnap’ victim, Abubakar Ahmed, on Monday in Ilorin, told a Kwara State High Court that he spent 20 days at the army barracks and paid N1m to regai

Court remands man for stealing handset

A Kano Sharia Court in Fagge on Monday ordered that a 25-year-old man, Faruk Ibrahim, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly stealing a ha

4 freed abductees narrate ordeal

Four people abducted at Paze, a community in Byazhin area on the outskirts of Kubwa town in the FCT, have regained their freedom. The victims, who wer