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A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday, remanded a 26-year-old trader, Jemilu Sule, over alleged membership of a cult group and killing of a woman and her housemaid. The defendant who resides at KM 3, Naka Road in Makurdi, is facing a two-count charge of belonging to an unlawful society to wit cultism and culpable

A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court has ordered that eight persons be remanded at the Nigeria Correctional Service Centre, Makurdi, for their alleged

A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court has ordered that eight persons be remanded at the Nigeria Correctional Service Centre, Makurdi, for their alleged involvement in cult activities and the murder of one Sunday Ogah. The suspects are Destiny Ogwu, Friday Alagi, Sunday Ode, Ogbada Ominyi, James Abah, Joseph Ogilewu, Israel Agwu and John Ogor. They all

The complainants said that the victims were kidnapped at Opirikwu/Ijegwu road in Obi Local Government Area to an unknown destination.

Two children of the same parents have been dragged before a Kwara State Magistrates’ Court for the alleged murder of their uncle. The suspect

A Kano High Court has sentenced a Nigerien, Sulaiman Abdullahi, 27, to death by hanging for the 2017 killing of 30-year-old Yahya Badamasi. The court,

Court remands 20-year-old student over murder. A Makurdi Magistrates’ Court Monday ordered that a 20-year-old student, Austin Ife be remanded

Court remands farmer over attempted murder. A Makurdi Magistrates’ Court has ordered that a 41-year- old farmer, Akember Ikpior, be remanded

A Makurdi Magistrates Court on Friday ordered that a 41-year-old farmer, Akember Ikpior, be remanded in a correctional centre for an alleged attempt to

American sugar mummy, one other jailed for cybercrime in Kwara. Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin