A cleric, Adewale Adelu, and five others have been sentenced to death by hanging over their role in armed robberies in Ondo state. The Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure said the convicts, Adelu, including Ikechuckwu Maduagwu, Fayemi Olubusuyi, Ropo Adeleye, Dele Otopka, and Bayo Omotosho were found guilty of attacking and robbing two commercial banks in Akure, the state capital and Idanre 13 years ago. The robbery incidents occurred at the defunct Diamond...

The Nigerian Army (NA) on Tuesday smoked out terrorists in Yadi Forest in Kidandan village in Kaduna. The “deep clearance operations”, according to the NA spokesman Major General Onyema Nwachukwu on Wednesday, led to the killing of one of the terrorist gang members. The terrorist fighter was killed in the heavy firefight between the soldiers and the outlaws. Other gang members subsequently took to their heels to avoid meeting a similar fate. “During the operation,...

Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested no fewer than 10 suspected human traffickers, including eight females and two males for stealing six children from different locations in the country for transactional purposes. Umar Nadada, the State Commissioner of Police disclosed this in Lafia while parading 57 suspects arrested for committing various crimes in the state. He said 45 children had been stolen and sold by the 10-member syndicate to clients who paid huge sums of...