Health workers and security personnel at the Kubwa General Hospital yesterday downed tools, refusing to attend to patients in protest against the shoddy treatment meted out on them by some people. As a result of the protest, LEADERSHIP gathered that pa...
Two employees were on Monday arraigned in Lagos over the alleged theft of three truck-loads of the company's products, Gino tin tomatoes and Bama Mayonnaise, valued at N31 million. Akeem Akinbola (31), of No. 61c, Bale Aiyetoro St., Ajegu...
A video editor with the DBS Media Company, Lagos, Michael Falade, was on Monday arraigned before a Surulere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly stealing N575,870 belonging to the company. Falade, 20, of 50 Wosilatu St., off Pako Aguda, Surul...
A Yaba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday sentenced 21-year-old office assistant, Segun Adeyemi, to one year imprisonment for stealing three laptop computers valued at N300,000. Magistrate Patrick Adekomaya handed down the sentence, follo...
The Kwara Police Command on Friday arrested a man alleged to be circulating `killer’ text messages to the public. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Kayode Fabode, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin that the man (names wi...
Imo Police Command on Friday said that it had rescued a nine-month-old baby boy from suspected traffickers in Lagos. The child was abducted on Nov. 23, 2011 by five armed men along with a little girl at gunpoint from the City...
The Rivers State Police Command has said it arrested 173 suspected robbers and 72 suspected kidnappers between April 1, 2012 and August 31, 2012; while a total of 26 suspected robbers and 10 suspected kidnappers were also killed within the same period....
Executive director, Africa Network For Environmental and Economy Justice (ANEEJ), Rev. David Ugolor and nine others were yesterday arraigned before a Benin Magistrate Court, Evbuoriaria, Oredo local government area of Edo State, in connection with the ...
Human rights lawyer, Mr Festus Keyamo, has called on the federal government to arrest, immediately, the former Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Senator Andy Uba, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and Chibuike Achigbu and charge...
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) on Thursday in Abuja urged the Federal Government to consider State Police in the ongoing constitution review. The National Publicity Secretary, Mr Rotimi Fashakin, who said this in an interview with the News Agenc...
The Bauchi State police command has disclosed that one of its officers (name withheld) has been apprehended and detained in a cell for allegedly having anal sex with minors. The State Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Ladan, revealed that the officer wa...
President Goodluck Jonathan has declare open a three-day meeting of eminent Nigerians for an indepth talk on insecurity in the country. The event will be held at the Unity Hall of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) Ku...
The Police on Tuesday arraigned a 20-year-old taxi driver, Idris Ahmed of Piwonyi village, Airport Road, Abuja, before an Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court for joint act and theft. Police prosecutor Paul Anigbo told the court that the case was repo...
An Ojo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday sentenced a 28-year-old man, Sunday Eze, to 14 months imprisonment for attacking one Mr Izuchukwu Okafor with a broken bottle. Magistrate T.O Shomade also sentenced Eze of No. 11 Omotosho St., Sabo, A...
A sixteen-year-old girl who was lured to a maternity home in Okwue area of Asaba along-side other girls, has narrated how they were promised N50,000 each to make babies for the operators of the home. She made the revelation after operatives of Asaba Vi...