Crime

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Alleged incitement against Kwara gov’t: Court grants journalists bail

A magistrates’ court sitting in Ilorin on Wednesday granted bail to Dare Akogun and Abdulrasheed Akogun, two detained journalists in Kwara State. They

Man jailed for unlawful export of banned drugs

Justice Daniel Osiagor, sitting at the Federal High Court in Lagos, convicted and sentenced a 49-year-old man, Chukwu Kingsley to 10 years’ impr

Man, 47, docked over N1.6m fraud

One Akin Faleye, 47, was on Thursday docked in an Iyaganku magistrates’ court, Ibadan for allegedly defrauding a man of N1,615,000. Faleye, whose resi

Man arrested selling fake dollars in Lagos

A 38-year-old bureau de change operator, Haruna Garba, has admitted to helping a syndicate involved in the minting of fake currencies to sell fake dol

Gunmen kidnap Nasarawa poly lecturer

Gunmen have reportedly kidnapped a lecturer of the Isa Mustapha Agwai I Polytechnic (IMAP) Lafia, Nasarawa State, Mr Shammah Yakubu. Yakubu, who is wi