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Grade 1 Area Court, Karu, FCT, on Thursday sentenced Ola Omo, of Asokoro, Abuja, to 10 months imprisonment for stealing wine and biscuits. The accused was apprehended after he broke into a shop and stole six bottles of different brands of wine and 10 packets of assorted biscuits, all valued at N27,550. The accused pleaded […]

An American teenager has become an overnight high roller after wrongly receiving a $31 000 deposit into his bank account. The Georgia 18-year-old apparently received the money after a teller made the error handling the money of a man with the same name. The real owner of the money only realised the error days after

The Chief Accountant of Home Science Association School, Ikoyi, Lagos, western Nigeria, Adetoye Adegoke, 50, has been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court for allegedly defrauding 92 students of the school of N13,164, 855. Adegoke was arrested by operatives of the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, of the Nigeria Police, Milverton Road, Ikoyi, Lagos and arraigned

The ICPC on Tuesday re-arraigned ex-Senator David Iornem before an Abuja Federal High Court for allegedly duping some unsuspecting Nigerians of over N200million through foreign universities admission racket. Iornem was arraigned before Justice Ahmed Mohammed on a 14-count criminal charge bothering on extortion and money laundering. Counsel to ICPC, Mr Ebenezer Shogunle, told the court that

It has been revealed that no fewer than forty-four persons will be awarded 1st Class Honours certificates at the 43rd Convocation Ceremony of the University of Nigeria (UNN), Nsukka which will take place on Friday and Saturday this week. Vice chancellor of the institution, Professor Bartholomew Okolo, disclosed this on Monday while briefing reporters as

Witnesses of a train collision that killed a teenage boy and left his girlfriend in critical condition said the boy saved the girl from certain death by pushing her away from the tracks. Mickayla Friend, 16, is in critical condition after the accident, which happened Friday around 7 p.m. when she and her boyfriend, Mateus Moore, were

Etisalat is the best telecoms network in the country. This is according to the Telecom Consumer Parliament (TCP), an alternative dispute resolution arm of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The award was bestowed on Etisalat by a panel of judges during the 10th anniversary celebration of the Parliament in Lagos. Members of the panel pointed

Borno state has ordered all of its schools to be shut to protect children after Islamists killed dozens of pupils in an attack last month, an official from the state Education Ministry and several parents said on Friday. Security officials said the militant Boko Haram group had shot or burned to death at least 29

For alleged beating, unlawful assault and causing grievous bodily harm to a 10-year-old cousin over bed-wetting, an aunt, Joy Amadu, was docked in an Ebute Metta court. The Kogi State-born Amadu, who works as a security guard reportedly hit her cousin with a wooden object and inserted ointment, Aboniki, in her eyes and private part

A teen has died after he was fatally shot in the head and leg by an unknown assailant on Saturday night. Kristjan Ndoj, 15, died on Thursday morning at Bridgeport Hospital, after several days on life support. The shooting happened after Ndoj, a junior student at Shelton High School in Connecticut (USA), is alleged to