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Ogun state bus pilot scheme

Ogun launches Gateway Bus Pilot scheme [Video]

The buses come with free WIFI and are air-conditioned. Government has also built a number of bus stops in Abeokuta…
Tanko Gambo Biye also jailed for 10 years

Kaduna man Mark Paul bags one year jail for Internet fraud

Paul fraudulently presented himself as Peter Weller, an American Bitcoin manager, to his victim, one David Fred, on Facebook and…
The Osun Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Adegboyega Leye, made this known in a statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, Mrs Agnes Ogungbemi, in Osogbo.

FRSC records 12 deaths in Osun

 The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC ), Osun Command, said no fewer than 12 people lost their lives in various…

Tanko Gambo jailed 10 years for misappropriation of 900k

Two petitioners alleged that he collected the sum of N900, 000 from them, to register them with the Association of…
President Goodluck Jonathan and the vehicles involved in the crash

Wike support group sympathises with Jonathan over fatal crash

“While it is relieving to know that H.E. Goodluck Jonathan is unhurt, we share his apparent shock and grief over…
One of the convicts

Court sends three internet fraudsters to jail in Edo

Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of three internet fraudsters, before…
Rape cases increase in Lagos

Edo man Michael Ogoke jailed 14 years for rape

The 57-year-old was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment without option of fine, for raping a 7-year-old girl, by Magistrate E.…
EFCC witness, Idi Musa, narrates in court how the sum of N35bn was found in two bank accounts linked to Ismaila Mustapha, (a.k.a Mompha)

Court adjourns Mompha’s trial

Mompha was arraigned by the EFCC on January 12, 2022, on eight counts bordering on conspiracy to launder funds
Furera Abubakar

Court sends 107-year-old woman to prison

A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court, has ordered 107-year-old herbalist Furera Abubakar, and Isah Hassan, 17, to be remanded in prison…
Police nab Abuja-based lawyer, Victor Giwa, who has alleged been avoiding facing trial for forgery, impersonation of his senior colleague

Edo SAN applicants beg for extension of registration date

The lawyers in Edo said the call became necessary due to the difficulties experienced in the online application process, adding…
female teacher

Principal, 2 others docked for beating female teacher

The defendants also allegedly threatened to kill the teacher after collecting her Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) card, phone worth N82,000…
James Brown declares 3-day fast for Bobrisky

ICYMI: Bobrisky, James Brown at risk of going to prison

The bill which was read for the first time on the floor of the House on Tuesday, April 5, seeks…
Nigerian

Collins Okechukwu jailed for life for raping student at UNILAG

Delivering judgement, Justice Abiola Soladoye, who described Okechukwu as a “pathological liar,” held that prosecution proved the charges of rape and robbery…
Faces of internet fraudsters jailed

Faces of 10 internet fraudsters sent to prison in Calabar

The convicts were arraigned by the Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on one-count separate…
Nigerian atheist Mubarak Bala

Mubarak Bala atheist in Kano jailed for blasphemy

Bala pleaded guilty to committing blasphemy against Allah (SWT) and Prophet Muhammad (SAW) against the advice of Justice Farouk Lawan…
Florence Babalola

EFCC docks ex-Kwara radio staff Babalola for false information

Babalola, 51, was arraigned on a two-count charge before Justice Muhammed Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin.
CSP Gladys dragged her husband, ACP Abayomi Faniyi to divorce court in Ibadan over allegations of domestic violence and infidelity

My husband’s manhood not working – Mother of 5 tells court

She also told the court that they have been living apart for a year and that the court should grant…
Murder

2 Kaduna men docked for stealing employer’s valuables worth N20m

The defendants allegedly stole their employer’s wrist watches, bangles, bracelets, diamond set, rings, necklaces, pendants and camera all valued N20…
Fraud

Lagos developer drags two to court for allegedly stealing N26m property

Police Prosecuting Counsel, Jimoh Joseph told the Court in the Charge marked M/19/2022 that the defendants committed the offence on…
Olu of Warri presents a POS machine to one of the residents

Olu of Warri empowers 1000 residents with POS machines

The Olu urged the beneficiaries to make the best use of the PoS machines, assuring them of more empowerment in…
The arrested suspects

Ogun police uncover Indian Hemp plantation, arrest seven suspects

The command's spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement gave the name of the suspects as Nelson Enu, Patrick Emmanuel,…
Illustration for a female corps-member

Trial of hotel manager for rape of corps member begins today

The manager of the hotel, located around GRA Area in Osogbo, was arrested by the police for raping a female…
Nwonwu

Togolese cook Jackson lands in prison for stealing employer’s €1,900 jewellery

Police alleged that nemesis, however, caught up with Jackson when the complainant reported the incident to the Divisional Police Officer,…

17 people burnt to death in Kano fire

Abdullahi disclosed that the fire service was able to save 126 lives and properties worth N123.6 million in 166 fire…
The convicted fraudsters

Six internet fraudsters land in jail in Ilorin

The EFCC prosecuted five of the defendants before Justice Sani, while only Olagoke was tried before Justice Akinpelu of the…
The suspect

Abuja woman Sahura arraigned for alleged N5m fraud

The defendant allegedly fraudulently collected the sum of N5.5 million from Aminu Tasiu and Bawagana Mohammed for conversion to United…
DSS alerts on relocation of terrorists displaced during military operations in North East to North west and North central, nab 5 suspects

Nursing mother among 6-man kidnap syndicate busted in Ondo

The Department of State Service (DSS) on Monday paraded a nursing mother and five other members of a six-man kidnap…
Police restore normalcy after Okada riders clash with hoodlums

Okada riders, hoodlums in brutal clash, one dead

Officers of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) were quickly drafted to the scene of the clash to restore normalcy.
DSS raises alarm over plan to disrupt peace in Nigeria

How DSS impersonator Adeniyi Adedeji duped business operators in Osun

By Joshua Oladipo The Department of State Services (DSS) arraigned one Adeniyi Adedeji at a Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defrauding…
Ogun Police Commissioner, CP Lanre Sikiru Bankole: orders investigation of 25-year-old Bisi Omoniyi for using cutlass to hack Akinyemi Alani who he met at the house of his lover to death in Ogun

After Buhari’s order, Ogun police crack 22 suspected cultists in 48 hours

President Muhammadu Buhari had recently ordered the police and other security agencies in Ogun to wade in a halt the…