Crime

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NDLEA chief urges youths to stay off substance abuse

The Ogun State commander of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Mrs Ibinabo Archie-Abia, has advised youths to stay away from drug abuse

Niger civil servant jailed 1 year for diverting intending pilgrims’ money

A senior magistrate court in Minna, Niger State, has sentenced a staff of the Niger State Pilgrims Welfare Board, Abdullahi Mohammed, to one year in p

After collecting ransom, kidnappers kill 1 of abducted Abuja wedding guests

Kidnappers have shot dead one of the 16 abducted wedding guests in their captivity after collecting foodstuffs, drugs and wines worth N437, 000 from t

3 dead, many injured in week-long cult war in Lagos

No fewer than three members of two rival secret cult gangs, Aiye and Eiye, were said to have been hacked to death in a bloody war that erupted between

Ex-boyfriend caught at married woman’s house, pretending to be a relative

A Shari’a Court sitting in Kano on Wednesday, ordered the remand of two brothers, Saifullahi Hamisu, Mujahid Hamisu and one Hassana Surajo, in a corre