3 charged over assault, body harm in Ekiti
The police in Ekiti State have arraigned three persons at the Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti over an alleged assault and conduct likely t
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Kano court sentences man for stabbing mother, brother
A man, Abubakar Auwal, has appeared before the Kano Magistrate’s Court 47 for allegedly stabbing his mother and brother over a disagreement. The suspe
After 10-year imprisonment, boy sentenced to death for stealing fowl may be pardoned
The Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has intervened in the case of Segun Olowwokere, who was arrested in 2010 at the age of 17 and sentenced to d
27 arrested over street begging in Lagos
Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Taskforce have apprehended 27 persons for alleged unlawful act of street begging. Mr Tokunbo Wahab, the St
‘How I killed ex-Niger perm sec’
An 18-year-old Fatiyah Abdulhakeem of Tayi village via Bosso Minna, Niger State, has told the police how he was directed by some staff of the late ret