Crime

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Court remands farmer for damaging police post in Benue

A Makurdi magistrates’ court in Benue State on Tuesday remanded a farmer, Jiir Godwin, of Tombo village in Logo LGA for damaging a police post. The po

8 arrested for cultivating hemp in Ekiti

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Ekiti State have arrested eight suspects and recovered 1,465kg of Indian hemp on the

Man jailed 9 months for stealing 2 goats

An area court in Jos, Plateau State, on Tuesday, sentenced a 20-year-old unemployed man, Pius John, to nine months imprisonment for stealing two goats

2 Tiktokers bag 20 lashes, to clean court’s toilets for posting ‘Ganduje sleeps a lot’

The No Man’s Land Magistrates Court, Kano, has ordered 20 lashes to be administered on one Mubarak Isa Muhammad and Nazifi Muhammad Bala, including sw

Plateau, Benue, Nasarawa rated high in human trafficking

Plateau, Benue and Nasarawa have been rated as states with the highest cases of human trafficking in Nigeria. This was disclosed on Saturday by speake