Judiciary & Crime

THE State Police Command has vowed to rescue the three abducted workers of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and arrest their abductors. Spokesperson Abimbola Oyeyemi today told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that police…

A POLICE officer has been shot dead at Warawa Divisional Police Headquarters in Kano. Inspector Ya’u Yakubu was said to have been killed by one Sergeant Basharu Alhassan, his colleague at the division. While confirming the incident,…

THREE officers have been shot dead by hoodlums and their corpses set ablaze. The officers attached to Umutu Divisional Police Headquarters, were killed at a checkpoint along the Obeti/Oliogo Road in Ukwuani Local Government Area of the…

THREE members of staff of Obasanjo Holdings at Kobape village in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State have been abducted. Gunmen took the three workers of former President Olusegun Obasanjo captive yesterday. Those…

The Police says it has arrested the killers of Pa Defwan Dariye, the father of former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye. The 93-year-old was killed after his abductors collected N10 million ransom from his family. The leader of…

COUNSEL for Department of States Services (DSS), I. Awo, today, told the Federal High Court that he could not continue hearing in a case instituted against the DSS by 12 supporters of Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as…

POLICE operatives in the state have arrested 19 suspected kidnappers. The spokesman of the state police command, ASP Lawan Shiisu, confirmed the arrest of the suspects in a statement today in Dutse. Shiisu said the suspects were…

MAXWELL Opara, one of the lawyers for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has dragged the Department of State Services before the Federal High Court Abuja for allegedly violating his fundamental human right. In…

GUNMEN have killed three farmers in Bassa Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the three victims were on their way to the farm when they were shot dead by the gunmen this morning . According to reports, the…

GUNMEN have kidnapped the elder brother of the Aecretary to Katsina State Government. Kabir Muhammed, brother of the Katsina SSG Mustapha Muhammed, was taken captive by gunmen on Wednesday while he was working on his farm in Daftau…

THE State Police Command yesterday paraded 12 suspects, including three repentant bandits, for various offences including robbery, cattle rustling and kidnapping. The three repentant bandits are Abdullahi Mai-Rafi, 43; Abbas Haruna, 34;…

Police in Ekiti have arraigned a herdsman, Abdullahi Bande, at the Ado-Ekiti Magistrates’ Court for alleged kidnapping. He was arraigned for allegedly kidnapping one Adebusuyi Ebenezer at Ilawe-Ekiti on August 26. The police…

THE Department of State Security today failed in its attempt to further keep four aides of Sunday Adeyemo, also called Sunday Igboho in its custody has failed, as the court turned down the request. Details later...

The Police yesterday arraigned chairman of The Osun Progressives, a faction of the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, Lowo Adebiyi, and six other members of the group for alleged conspiracy and assault. All the accused…

EMBATTLED National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has reacted to a court injunction barring him from parading himself as chairman of the opposition party. Secondus said he is not of afraid of the…

Gunmen have reportedly killed five people in Bassa Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the victims were killed when gunmen attacked Chando-Zrrechi (Tafi-Gana) village last night. The National President of the…

THREE students of the University of Jos (UNIJOS) were killed by hoodlums during a reprisal attack along Bauchi-Ring Road in Jos, on Sunday. The incident occurred just 24 hours after gunmen killed 22 travellers along Rukuba Road, Jos…

THE police have declined reports that the special investigation panel set up by the inspector-general of police Usman Baba to probe deputy police commissioner Abba Kyari has submitted its amended report. Kyari was suspended and placed…

Gift Agenoisa, a JSS1 student of Mary Immaculate Secondary School, Ado- Ekiti, has dragged the Ekiti Government, before a state High Court, seeking N15 million in damages for breach of fundamental rights. In a suit number HAD/01/CR/2021…

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared Instagram celebrity Oluwasegun Opaogun alias Opa6ix and four others wanted for internet-related fraud and other allegations. Opasix, a native of Abeokuta, Ogun State is…

A Yaba Magistrates’ Court today ordered that Chidinma Ojukwu, prime suspect in the murder of the CEO of Super TV Usifo Ataga be remanded for 30 days. Chief Magistrate Adeola Adedayo also remanded Ojukwu’s co-defendant Adedapo Quadri on…

NO fewer than 13 people, including seven wedding guests, a pastor and his wife were abducted in two kidnapping incidents that occurred between Kwara-Ekiti axis on Saturday evening. Police sources said that seven guests who were returning…

UNKNOWN kidnappers yesterday killed one person in an attempt to abduct a Swiss expatriate identified as Andred Beita along Ibese-Itori Road. It was gathered that the kidnappers, after exchanging fire with the police escort attached to a…

Gunmen last night attacked the Divisional Police Headquarters in the Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State. The attack claimed the lives of four persons which included a police Inspector and three of the attackers. The gunmen also…

A MAGISTRATE’S Court in Yola yesterday remanded Aminu Yar’Adua, 36, son of late former President Umaru Yar’Adua in prison for allegedly killing four people in an auto crash in Yola. Yar’Adua, a student of the American University of…

The Supreme Court has affirmed Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, as Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker-National Convention Planning Committee. A seven-man panel of the apex court headed by Justice Emmanuel Agim,…

TWO suspected kidnappers have reportedly been shot dead while collecting ransom in Sabongida town in Gassol Local Government Area of the state. According to Daily Trust, the suspects had abducted an elderly man identified as Alhaji…

THE Adamawa State Magistrate Court yesterday sentenced the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Youth Leader in the state, Ikamu Hamidu Kato, to one year in prison for insulting President Buhari and Secretary to the Government of the Federation,…

A SENIOR Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has described the fresh terrorism charge filed against the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim el-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, by the Kaduna State government as…

Gunmen have killed seven persons and burnt 250 houses in some communities in Miango chiefdom of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State. Spokesperson of the Iregwe Development Association (IDA) Davidson Malison in a statement on…

THE Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar has sacked the lawmaker representing Cross River North, Stephen Odey. The court declared declared Jarigbe Agom Jarigbe as the duly elected senator. The court also ordered the Independent National…

NIGERIAN Instagram celebrity Ramon Abass aka Hushpuppi has agreed to plead guilty to the fraud charges filed against him by the United States government. Hushpuppi was arrested in June in Dubai, UAE and extradited to the US where many of…

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission yesterday interrogated a former governor of Nasarawa Tanko Al-Makura and his wife Mairo Al-Makura, over alleged breach of public trust and misappropriation of billions of naira by his…

THE National Chairman of the People's Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has sued a former Commissioner of Information in Edo State, Prince Afegbua, at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory for alleged libellous publications…

THE State Police Command has released 47 out of the 48 Yoruba Nation agitators arrested early this month in the state. The secessionist campaigners were arrested during a Yoruba Nation rally held in Ojota area of the state on…

THE State Police Command today arraigned 48 Yoruba Nation protesters, at a Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba for their roles in a rally by Yoruba Nation promoters at Ojota, Lagos. Among those arraigned was one Tajudeen Bakare (a popular…

Uduak Akpan, the prime suspect in the murder of a graduate of the University of Uyo (UNIUYO) has pleaded guilty to murder at a State High Court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom.  Akpan todag pleaded guilty to causing the death of Iniubong Umoren.…

SUSPECTED murderers of Dr Terkula Suswam, the elder brother of the former Governor of Benue State, Senator Gabriel Suswam, has been arrested in Nasarawa State. Suswam was killed in March at Ayin village, Logo Local Government Area of…

THE residents of Mpape Phase 2, a community near the highbrow Maitama District, Abuja, have received a letter purportedly written by armed robbers notifying them of an impending attack. Although the proposed date for the attack was not…

THE judge in the case of Omoyele Sowore, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, has indicated that she is no longer interested in presiding over the trial involving the publisher of SaharaReporters and co-defendant Olawale Bakare. Justice Ojukwu, who…

GUNMEN killed at least six policemen during an attack on a police checkpoint in Enugu State last evening. An eyewitness told journalists the criminals attacked the checkpoint located along the Obeagu Uno-Amodu – Umueze Amechi Road in…

THE State Police Command have arrested the suspected kidnapper of a soldier, Waliu Oloyede, at Odo-Pako Ota, in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area. Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement…

JUSTICE Mohammed Mohammed of the Sokoto State High Court has granted a final forfeiture of N1.3 traced to the account of one Aishatu Bandado Magaji to the Federal Government. The Head of Media and Publicity, Economic and Financial Crimes…

JUSTICE Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, yesterday, granted the request of a former Minister of Special Duties and Inter-governmental Affairs, Kabiru Turaki, for medical attention in Turkey. The judge granted the application…

A Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Zamfara State House of Assembly members from impeaching the Deputy Governor, Matadi Aliyu Gusau, over his refusal to defect from the People's Democratic Party (PDP) to the All…

A NOTORIOUS bandit leader, Turji, yesterday went on rampage in Shinkafi Local Government Area of the state, holding a lot of villages as hostages over the arrest of his father. According to a report by Daily Trust, about 150 locals were…

Justice Eno Isangedighi of the Akwa Ibom State High Court, Ikot-Ekpene, on Friday sentenced two police officers and three others to death for kidnapping in the state. The quintet were arraigned by the state government for kidnapping an…

A FEDERAL High Court in Lagos has acquitted an ex-president of the Nigerian Bar Association, Paul Usoro, of money laundering charges to the tune of N1.4 billion. Justice Rilwan Aikawa gave the judgment today while ruling on Usoro’s…

A HIGH Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), yesterday, stopped the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) from arresting the Elegushi of Ikate Kingdom in Lagos Oba Saheed Elegushi and two others. Justice Gafar Safari gave…

The Upper Area Court Zuba in Abuja, yesterday, issued a criminal summons against an ex-Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Charles Soludo. The summons originated from a criminal complaint brought before the court by a man named…