The Ekiti State High Court, Ado-Ekiti, on Thursday sentenced one Owoeye Ojo to death by hanging for attempted murder and armed robbery. Ojo was arraigned on a four-count charge of attempted murder and armed robbery on August 25, 2023. The prosecution told the court that the defendant with others, while armed with guns, axes and…
The Magistrate Court in Apapa has freed the 17-year-old minor, Alabi Quadri, who went viral ahead of the 2023 general elections for standing in front of the convoy of former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Quadri was wrongfully detained for months on a trumped-up charge of armed robbery. He was discharged on Wednesday,…
Gunmen on Tuesday attacked the family house of the Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, in Obeiba Community of Okehi Local Government Area of the state. The State’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Miller Dantawaye, who confirmed this to journalists on Thursday in Lokoja, said the incident occurred on Tuesday night. He said: “The command has…
Chidinma Ojukwu, the prime suspect in the m#rder of Super TV CEO, Michael Usifo Ataga, today, April 17, recounted how she discovered Ataga’s lifeless body in a short-let apartment in Lekki on June 15, 2021. Testifying before Justice Yetunde Adesanya of a Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, the former 300-level Mass…
President John Dramani Mahama has extended an invitation to the transitional leaders of the Confederation of Sahel States (AES); comprising Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger for the launch of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), scheduled to take place in Ghana. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa,…
