The refusal of a commercial bus driver to part with N20 bribe caused him his life as a police patrol team attached to Sapade area on the Lagos Ibadan Expressway shot and killed him instantly. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY gathered that the patrol team had flagged ...
Unknown gunmen, last night stormed Malali community, a suburb of Kaduna metropolis, killing at least three people. Though, the Kaduna State Police Command could not confirm any death arising from the attack, sources told LEADERSHIP SUNDAY that two pers...
A Karu Area Court in Mararaba, Nasarawa State, on Friday ordered a 50-year-old welder, James Ujah of Gwandara Masaka, to be remanded in prison custody for allegedly raping a 10-year-old girl. Police prosecutor Inuwa Magida told the court th...
The police on Friday arraigned two drivers, Ibrahim Adamu, 23, and Bala Umaru, 18, before an Abuja Chief Magistrates’ Court for alleged theft. The drivers ply their trade at the Jabi Motor Park in Utako District, Abuja. Prosecutor Sani Yusuf told...
A 30-year-old housemaid, Mary John, was on Friday arraigned before an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly stealing her employer’s belongings, worth N35.1 million. The accused, who resides with her employer, Esohe Kadiri, at ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, arraigned Mr. Abdullahi Mohammed (alias Dan Hadeja), 72, before Justice Abubakar Tijjani of the Federal High Court II, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on a one count charge of obtaining the...
Unidentified gunmen, yesterday, launched an attack on MTN, Airtel and Visafone masts in Zaria area of Kaduna State and Mubi in Adamawa. In Zaria, the gunmen riding on three separate motorcycles set ablaze the three masts belonging to the three te...
Following discoveries by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) of some fraudsters who parade themselves as Officers of the Corps requesting members of the public to send recharge cards to them supposedly to be used to assist victims of road crash has st...
An Oshodi Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Thursday remanded at the Kirikiri Prisons, a commercial motorcyclist who pleaded guilty to stealing a motorcycle . Magistrate Olagbegi Adelabu remanded Musa Liadi (27), after he admitted that he stol...
A Jos Area Court on Thursday sentenced a 23-year-old student, Mustapha Shuaibu, of Government Secondary School, Dass, Bauchi State, to one month imprisonment or an option of N1,000 fine for criminal misappropriation and t...
A salesgirl, Abidemi Idowu, 27, was on Thursday docked at a Somolu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, charged with stealing N1.2 million belonging to her employer. Idowu, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge. The Prosecutor, ASP Akinlebi Adeg...
Measures have been taken to ensure adequate security of lives and property in Sokoto and its environs following reported threat by terrorists to attack the city. One of the steps taken by the federal government yesterday was the mass deployment of secu...
One of the robbery victims of last Sunday’s mayhem that left three policemen and seven others dead has given up the ghost at Gbagada General Hospital in Lagos. LEADERSHIP gathered that the victim, Sikiru Abiodun, died on Monday night during a sur...
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Lamorde, has lamented that some banks hamper its investigations on fraud by refusing to tender useful details regarding customers being prosecuted for graft by the commission. ...
Stakeholders are convening a National Information Security Conference (NgSecure 2012) on October 11 and 12, at the International conference Centre in Abuja on to design strategies to ensure greater cyber security. The forum is being put tog...