Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two suspected kidnappers of couple in Bisodun village in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the state. In a statement on Wednesday, police spokesperson in the state, Superintendent Abimbola Oyeyemi said that the suspected kidnappers had reportedly invaded the community on Tuesday and abducted a couple, Mr and Mrs Ojo. Oyeyemi …

The Justice Department of the United States has announced the final resolution of two civil cases seeking the forfeiture of various luxury assets that were the proceeds of foreign corruption offenses and were laundered in and through the United States. Documents from the Justice Department showed that the laundry cases involved former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, and …

Kano State Governor-elect, Abba Kabir Yusuf (popularly known as Abba Gida-Gida) of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has said that his wives and children would not have any role in the governance of the state. In his acceptance speech after receiving his certificate of return on Wednesday, Yusuf alluded to the perceived overreaching influence of the first family of …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency paraded two sisters and the spouse of one of them before newsmen in Katsina on Tuesday for being in possession of six kilograms of Indian hemp. The narcotics agency’s commander in Katsina State, Mohammed Bashir, told newsmen that one of the women, Rabi Musa, 45, was arrested for being in possession of three kilograms …

Residents of Kori-Oja and Bisodun villages, as well as neighbouring communities in the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State are living in fear over increasing cases of kidnapping in their area. Some of the residents expressed fear, lamenting that reported cases of kidnapping made it difficult for people to go about their daily business. A community leader in the …

A teenager has narrated how she was allegedly raped and deflowered by one Pope Paul, a youth pastor in the Deeper Life Bible Church in Lagos state. The 19-year-old survivor appeared before the sexual offences and domestic violence court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday. The survivor said the abuse started when she was 15 years old and living with …

A rival group clash at Agbowo junction, opposite the University of Ibadan main gate has left a suspected cultist dead. It was gathered that the cultist identified as Eboto has been allegedly shot dead by a rival cult group on Monday night by some rival cultists who stormed the area in the afternoon and were allegedly hunting one another over …

A domestic worker, Joseph Ogbu, was sentenced to death by hanging by a Lagos State High Court on Monday for the murders of his employer, Adejoke John, 89, and her daughter, Oreoluwa, at their house in the Surulere neighborhood of the city. The verdict was delivered by Justice Modupe Nicole-Clay after she determined that the defendant had committed three charges …

The Lagos State Police Command on Monday arraigned a 52-year-old man, Kamarudeen Adeniyi, before a Badagry Chief Magistrates’ Court for alleged forgery and stealing in the state. The defendant is facing four-count bordering on forgery, stealing, malicious damage, and a breach of public peace. The police prosecutor, ASP Clement Okuoimose, told the court that the defendant committed the offences sometime …

An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Monday, ordered the remand of twin brothers, Kehinde Sunday and Taiwo Sunday, both 19 years old, in Ado-Ekiti Correctional Centre over alleged house breaking and stealing. The defendants, of unknown addresses, are facing a two- count charge of house breaking and stealing. The Police Prosecutor, Inspector Olubu Apata told the court that the defendants …