Crime

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6-year-old girl raped in Lagos, suspect remanded

An Ikeja magistrates’ court in Lagos on Thursday ordered that a 32-year-old man, Joseph Edeh, be remanded in a correctional centre for raping a six-ye

Kwara man stabs 2 ‘peacemakers’ to death

A 28-year-old man, Habeeb AbdulGaniyu, has been arraigned before a magistrates’ court sitting in Ilorin for stabbing two persons to death after they p

Kano bizman bags 7 years jail over N6.5m fraud

A Kano-based businessman, Jamilu Sule, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment with no option of fine following a petition written against him

Boyfriend leads operation to rob lover N9.5m in Kwara – Police

An Ilorin magistrates’ court sitting in Kwara State has remanded one Rubabat Sanni for robbing his Beninese lover, Zubera Bio Gbengagi, of the sum of

Dumped mutilated corpse: Abuja Pastor, son moved to police CID

Police detectives in Kubwa, a suburb of Abuja, have moved the two suspects arrested over the mutilated female corpse dumped in the area to the command