KANO — The National Council of Women Societies (NCWS) has called for justice for Hanifa Abubakar, a five-year-old pupil, murdered by the proprietor of Noble Primary School, Kano. The National President of NCWS, Mrs. Laraba Shoda, made the call in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Shoda described the incident as tragic and demanded that the accused be brought to book for terminating the life of an innocent child placed in his care for academic...
MAIDUGURI — Mallam Ari, Commander in charge Kirta Wulgo in Borno State, and mercenaries fabricating Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) for ISWAP have been killed in the attack. A Super Tucano airstrike of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) operation under Operation Hadin Kai eliminated an Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) leader and foot soldiers, including foreign fighters. A military officer told PRNigeria that the location was targeted after intelligence revealed scores of insurgents converging at...
YOLA — An Upper Area Court 4 sitting in Yola, Adamawa state on Friday convicted an 18-year-old Abubakar Mohammed a member of Shila groups that have been terrorizing residents of the state capital by snatching their cell phones. The court sentenced the accused to 7 years in prison for extortion without option of a fine. Abubakar of Rumde ward in Yola North Local Government Area was earlier arrested for extorting an infinix cell phone valued...
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has granted amnesty to 50 convicts serving various jail terms across the country. Some of the convicts granted amnesty are Benue indigenes while others are indigenes of other states who committed the offences in Benue state and were convicted before being moved to Jos Correctional Center to serve their jail terms. Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of the state, Barrister Michael Gusa who briefed journalists Thursday, January 20th, 2022...
LAGOS — A Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos has sentenced a businessman, Ofure Siakpere to life imprisonment for defiling and impregnating his 14-year-old in-law (name withheld) in his care. The accused was sentenced after finding him guilty of a charge of defilement contrary to Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015. The convict was 35-years old when the offence was committed. Justice Abiola Soladoye, while passing the judgment,...
ABUJA — The Nigerian Senate has challenged the military and other security agencies to closely monitor and effectively block the escape routes being used by bandits and fleeing terrorists to forestall their relocation to safe havens in the country. This was just as it urged the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, to provide food and other livelihood support amenities to affected villages and those that are internally displaced in Mariga, Mashegu, Kontagora and Borgu Local...
UMUAHIA — Abia State High Court presided over by Justice Benson Anya has ordered the Nigerian government to pay the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, the sum of N1 Billion over infringement of his fundamental rights. According to the court the damages to be paid to Kanu were for the invasion of his house. The judge stated that the defence counsel did little or nothing to defend the evidence...
UMUAHIA — A High Court sitting in Abia State has ordered the Federal Government to pay the sum of N1 billion to the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, as well as tender him an apology. The embattling leader of the IPOB had approached the Court to demand N5 billion over the invasion of his father’s house by the military on September 10, 2017. According to Kanu’s lawyer, Aloy Ajimakor,...
YOLA — The Chief Judge, Adamawa state, Justice Nathan Musa has observed that most of the provisions of the panel code are not in tandem with the Adamawa State Administration of Criminal Justice 2018, especially the provision relating to mandatory sentences. The Chief Judge made the observation while inaugurating a seven-man committee for the review of the Adamawa State panel code law 2018 and the Administration of Criminal Justice 2018 held on Tuesday at Murtala...
ENUGU — The annual remembrance of Nigerian fallen heroes every 15th of January tagged Armed Forces Remembrance Day, AFRD, was celebrated across the 36 states of the Nigerian federation and the Federal Capital Territory on Saturday. AFRD is a day set aside yearly to celebrate personnel of the Nigerian Army Forces-Army, Navy, and Air Force- and the Nigeria Police Force who died in the line of duty. On Saturday, the Enugu State Governor, military personnel,...
