Five female students of Federal University, Dutsinma in Katsina State were abducted from their off-campus hostels by gunmen on Wednesday morning. The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, in Katsina, ASP Abubakar Aliyu, said the hostel attacked is behind Mariamoh Ajiri Memorial School, Dutsinma. Aliyu said the attack occurred at 2:00 a.m. He confirmed the arrest of an alleged informant to the terrorists, and said efforts are ongoing to rescue the victims unhurt. It is the...

While the Police are awaiting the result of the autopsy conducted on late singer Mohbad, an inquest (official investigation to find out the cause of death) will begin this Friday (Sept. 29). The inquest, convoked by the chief coroner in Lagos State, Justice M.A. Dada, will take place at a magistrate court in Ikorodu, Lagos, The West African Pilot News learned. The setting up of the inquest was in response to a series of demands...

A repentant Boko Haram member Musa Dauda has been arrested by Borno State Police Command for alleged killing and burying his ex-wife, Hafsat Musa. The suspect was said to have on Sept. 12 invited 45-year-old Hafsat to meet with him on her farm at Muhammed Goni stadium, Maiduguri. ASP Sani Kamilu, Borno State Police spokesman who stated in Maiduguri on Friday said Hafsat was nowhere to be found after honoring the invitation. “The case was...

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, sitting in Kubwa, Abuja presided over by Hon. Justice Asmau Akanbi-Yusuf on Monday convicted and sentenced Dr. Abubakar Mustapha Danraka, Ph.D. to life imprisonment for Sodomy under Section 1 of the VAPP Act of 2015. A statement on Tuesday by the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) spokesman, Vincent Adekoye and made available to newsmen. The statement described the conviction as a historic and...

The Adamawa State Jail Delivery Committee has sentenced a middle age man, Nafiu Sabe to 6 months imprisonment for stealing 6 cartons of Maltina drinks in Yola, the state capital. The conviction followed voluntarily confession to the crime which he was arrested and remanded. The Committee headed by the Adamawa State Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Hapsat Abdulrahaman sentenced the accused when it visited Jimeta correctional center where the accused was awaiting trial. The convict, Nafiu...

Adamawa State Jail Delivery Committee has discharged 223 out of 461 inmates including women awaiting trial at Yolde Pate New Medium Security Custodial Centre in Yola South local government area. In the same vein, the committee discharged 26 convicted inmates out of 178 serving various jail terms at the correctional center and admitted 52 to bail. Addressing those discharged, the Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Hapsat Abdulrahaman who headed the committee warned them not to commit...

Anambra State commissioner of police, CP Aderemi Adeoye has said that five out of seven local government areas in Anambra South Senatorial Zone have been freed from the grip of insurgents. The commissioner who spoke to journalists in Awka at the weekend said the command is working to totally end terrorism in the state, but have been very tactical in the fight, to avoid what he described as collateral damage. Adeoye said the command has...