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Poisonous salt in circulation in Lagos, two businesswomen nabbed

  Two businesswomen, who allegedly repackaged industrial salt for human consumption, have been hauled up before a Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The accused,...

2023 Presidency: Hurdle cleared for Atiku as court dismisses suit challenging his Nigerian citizenship, eligibility

    The coast is now clear for former Vice- President Atiku Abubakar to contest the presidential poll in 2023 as a Federal...

Couple bags three years in jail for starving, incarcerating 12-year-old niece in fridge for eight months

Emmanuel Bassey and his wife, Esther, have been sentenced to three years imprisonment by the Sokoto Magistrates’ Court for starving and confining their...

UK Court to 64-year-old Nigerian serial rapist: You are guilty as charged

  Guilt-racked 64 year-old Nigerian and serial rapist, Adeyinka Oluwaseyi Ajose, is to spend 18 years behind the bars, a United Kingdom court...

INEC Returning Officer, Professor Ogban is guilty as charged, bags 36 months for rigging

  “If I lose my source of income, it means all of my dependents I have mentioned will suffer, especially the condition of...

Chaos In Owerri As Police Arrest Former Imo Gov. Rochas Okorocha, aides

  By Boye Ajayi Operatives of the Imo State police command have arrested a former governor of the state, Sen. Rochas Okorocha, reports...

Sexagenarian hubby, wife caught dismembering interred corpse, faces trial

  A couple who allegedly dug up a corpse and dismembered it with others still on the run, is facing trial in Osun...

EFCC suspect forges own death certificate to escape justice, beaten to his game

    A man, who announced his own death and forged death certificate to escape justice, has been beaten to his own game by...

Kogi monarch, 10 others to cool their heels in prison over alleged culpable homicide

A 69-year-old traditional ruler in Adavi Local Government, Asema Uka (Otumi-Ajoko) of Kogi State, Momoh Nasir and 10 others have been remanded in...

Carrot thief banished from circulation for two years

Guilt-racked carrot thief is to spend the next 24 months behind the bars, a court ruled on Thursday. The 25-year-old trader, Abba Arando,...

Alleged filling station robber, 22-year-old Agbaje, behind bars in Osun

By Boye Ajayi For allegedly robbing a petrol station manager of N1.2 million at gun-point, a 22-year-old, Tunde Agbaje, is to spend the...

SPDC appeals judgment for its asset sale 

  SPDC says it has filed an appeal and an application for a stay of execution of enforcement of the purported sale of interests...

Pedophilic rape: Sexagenarian gets multiple stoning judgment

  Caught on the wrong side of the law for ravishing an underage girl, 60-year-old Mati Abdu is to die by multiple stoning,...

Sowore heads for Appeal Court on bail condition restricting him to Abuja

  Omoyele Sowore, the convener of #Revolution Now protests and publisher of SaharaReporters, has filed an appeal against the judgment of an Abuja...

Sowore’s bail perfected, to breathe air of freedom today — Falana

Omoyele Sowore, the convener of #RevolutionNow Movement and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, have met their bail conditions, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), told the Federal...

EFCC misled court into granting temporary forfeiture order — Saraki

  Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has said that the EFCC may have misled the court into granting an order for...