Tuesday 19 April 2016

NDLEA arrests four suspected ritualists, 50 others in Delta


Operatives of the Delta State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Monday arrested four persons suspected to be ritualists within Ogwashi-Uku, Ubulu-Uku and Benin Asaba Expressway while on routine patrol.

Court remands alleged killer of 25-year-old man


An Akure Chief Magistrate Court has ordered for the remand in prison of a man, Sunkanmi Gabriel for allegedly stabbing to death a 25-year-old man, Ojo Akintoye with a broken bottle.

Man wrongfully jailed for 33 years freed


A former US sailor was acquitted Thursday with the help of DNA evidence after spending 33 years in prison, erroneously convicted of raping a woman and killing her husband in 1982.

Lagos trader lands in court for bypassing electricity meter


A fifty-eight-year-old trader, Ejide Ogunmiluyi, is currently facing prosecution before an Ijede Magistrate’s Court, Ikorodu, Lagos, over allegations of bypassing electricity meter in her house to avoid paying electricity bills to Ikeja Electric.

Man, 20, jailed three years for stealing N300,000


An Evbouriaria Magistrates’ Court in Benin, Edo State, has sentenced one Joseph Nanchang, to three years imprisonment for stealing the sum of N300,000.