A 15-year-old boy was on Thursday arraigned in a Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly stealing a neighbour’s motorcycle valued at N170,000. He denied committing the offence, while the Chief Magistrate, Mr Aro Lambo, granted him bail in the N50,000. Lambo also ordered him to produce two sureties in like sum. The defendant, who […]
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A 22-year-old housewife, Rashidat Adewuyi, told an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court in Ibadan on Friday that her father-in-law slept on the same bed with her and her husband whenever he visited them. Rashidat made the statement on Friday when she testified in a divorce petition filed by her husband, Lukman Adewuyi. She said her marriage of
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A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Friday ordered that 28-year-old man, Ibrahim Yunisa, be given six strokes of the cane for stealing a ladder. Yunisa, of no fixed address, had pleaded guilty to a one-count charge of theft and begged for leniency. The Judge, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, told the convict that he mitigated
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A giant python attacked an Indonesian man, nearly severing his arm before hungry villagers chopped up the reptile and ate it, a police chief said Wednesday. Security guard Robert Nababan crossed paths with the giant creature while patrolling an oil palm plantation in the remote Batang Gansal subdistrict of Sumatra island on Saturday. “The python
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Pictures have emerged on social media where a Losperfontein Correctional Centre warder is seen to be intimate with a prison inmate. The incident has caused the employee to take her own life on Monday morning and a suicide case had been opened. Correctional Services spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo said it is unclear how the pictures were
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A Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano on Tuesday remanded five men in prison over the alleged kidnap and stoning 70-year-old Usman Danbuba to death. The accused were Wada Mohammed, 30, Ya’u Muhammad, 22, Musa Inusa, 35, Sale Buba, 27, and Sule Garba, 45. They are facing a five-count charge of criminal conspiracy, hostage taking,
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Social media user lamented the horrible state of Umuahia Central School, Ohuhu in Umuahia North LG, sharing pictures of the unfavourable and unconducive working environment of the school premises. He also questioned the state government’s decision to build new schools without taking care of the dilapidating ones. He said that “In this school, children learn
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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ogun on Thursday said that it had taken safe delivery of a baby girl whose mother was in transit along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. The Public Education Officer of Corps in Ogun, Mrs Florence Okpe, said in a statement in Abeokuta that the FRSC Accident and Emergency Clinic in Sagamu
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Ifeoluwa Dada The Executive Chairman, Egbe Idimu Local Council Development Area, Hon Kunle Sanyanolu Olowoopejo, has reassured the Nigerian Automobile Technician Association (NATA) Egbe – Idimu branch his cooperation. The Chairman stated this while addressing members of the association in his office on Thursday after they had raised eyebrow about what was perceived as plan
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The Police in Enugu State have nabbed nine suspected serial rapists, specialised in raping female members of a church at the outskirts of Enugu. The Spokesman of the command, Mr Ebere Amaraizu, a Superintendent of Police, disclosed this in a statement in Enugu on Sunday. Amaraizu said that the arrest was made possible by a
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