Category: Legal
Police confirms 12 people killed in an explosion in Rivers on Friday morning
04 Mar 2023
The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed that 12 people were killed in an early Friday morning explosion in Rumuekpe, Emoha Local Government Area of the state. SP Grace Iringe-Koko, the command’s spokesperson, said in a statement in Port Harcourt that preliminary investigation revealed that the victims were scooping crude product when the site caught […]
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Court discharges and acquits a 55-year-old lecturer accused of rape
04 Mar 2023
Dr Ayinde Olukayode, a 55-year-old university lecturer, was discharged and acquitted of alleged rape by Justice Adekunle Adeleye of an Ado-Ekiti High Court. Olukayode, an Ekiti State University (EKSU) lecturer, has been on trial for alleged rape in violation of Section 31 (c) of the Child’s Rights Law, Cap C7, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012. […]
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Ondo: Police charge a driver with kidnapping and murdering a businessman
04 Mar 2023
Idowu Adekanye, a middle-aged driver, was charged on Friday by the Ondo State Police Command with the murder and kidnapping of a businessman named Omololu Olowosoyo in Ondo State’s Irele Local Government Area. Adekanye committed the crime on January 14, 2023, along the Ore-Irele road, according to Police Prosecutor Taiwo Oniyere, and was charged with […]
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Policeman kills self after shooting girlfriend
04 Mar 2023
.A policeman, Olalere Michael, on Thursday committed suicide after shooting his girlfriend, identified simply as Tosin to death on the premises of a private school located on Agba Dam Housing Estate, Gaa Akanbi, in the Ilorin area of Kwara State. the policeman who was attached to the Kwara State Government House, Ilorin, and his lover […]
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Police arrest 11 suspects caught with 9 human dry skulls, intestines and other body parts
04 Mar 2023
Police in Oyo State have arrested 11 suspects in possession of nine dry human skulls, one fresh human head, intestines and other human body parts. SP Adewae Osifeso, spokesman of the command, disclosed this on Thursday while briefing journalists. He explained that discreet intelligence gathering carried out on February 22, by a police monitoring unit […]
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Rivers: Police arrest man over the deaths of two people on election day
03 Mar 2023
Detectives from the Egbeda Police Division in Rivers State’s Emohua Local Government Area arrested James, an alleged repentant cultist, in connection with the death of two people in Ubimini Community last weekend. James, also known as “Cross and Die,” is accused of orchestrating the crisis that erupted in the Ubimini community during the Presidential and […]
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Prophet sentenced to 21 years in prison for defiling his 10-year-old stepdaughter
02 Mar 2023
Prophet Anwana Peter Essien, pastor of Restoration Bible Church, Itiam Street, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for defiling his 10-year-old stepdaughter. The Prophet, a native of Afaha Ise in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area, defiled his victim, a JSS 1 student, on August 9, 2019, when her mother […]
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Court remands leader of the house of reps for homicide and arson
02 Mar 2023
A Kano State Magistrates’ Court has remanded the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Doguwa, at a correctional facility over charges of culpable homicide and arson. Doguwa was taken before Court 58 of the Magistrate’s Court in Nomansland area of the state metropolis Wednesday evening following his arrest at the Malam Aminu Kano […]
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NSCDC arrests 19 people for allegedly looting a rice truck on the Kano-Zaria road
01 Mar 2023
About 19 suspects who allegedly looted a rice truck in Kano on Sunday have been apprehended by operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC. According to DSC Ibrahim Idris-Abdullahi, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, the suspects attacked the truck on the Kano-Zaria road. According to him, the truck is registered UGG 532 […]
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