In a verdict delivered on Monday, 6 May 2024, an Ekiti State High Court sentenced three men to death by hanging for armed robbery. The convicts, identified as Oyebanji Sola, 31; Jimoh Azeez, 31; and Ogunlade Babatunde, 28, were found guilty of robbing occupants of a private student hostel located along Federal Polytechnic Road, Ado Ekiti, on 3 October 2018. Justice Lekan Ogunmoye, who presided over the case, stated that the prosecution successfully proved the...

Petitions against “brazen act of corruption and human rights abuse” going on at the SCID Awka under the watch of  Mr Fakorade Awka-based lawyer, Mr Richard Okonkwo, has called on the Nigerian Police authority to beam searchlight on the activities of a Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of the Anambra State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID Awka, Mr Akin Fakorade in order to bring sanity and professionalism back to the department that will ensure safety of...

Operatives of the Anambra State Police Command have arrested no fewer than seven persons for suspected cultism and armed robbery in the State. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ikenga Tochukwu disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen. According to him, the gang members were arrested at about 10.pm on Friday when the officers swooped on them. He said a cut-size double barrel gun, one tricycle without a reg number, and some hard drugs...