A Benin Magistrate’s Court on Thursday sentenced a 21 year-old man to three years imprisonment for raping a 10 year-old girl. The man, Femi Ali, was charged on the one count-charge and convicted of rape under Section 358 of the Crimin...
One of the thugs suspected to have invaded Media Trust’s Kano regional office allegedly to set the complex ablaze was yesterday arraigned before a Kano magistrate’s court. The firm publishes the national daily, Daily Trust. A news report, w...
Panic on Tuesday night gripped the people of Birniwa Local Government Area of Jigawa State following an attack allegedly unleashed on a police divisional office by dozens of unknown gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram in which a teen...
Armed robbers yesterday in the early hours waylaid passengers around Ubulu-nor along Benin-Asaba Expressway Delta State and stole about N1.2 million from the passengers who were on their way to the Onitsha market. Reports said that the robbers had bloc...
A total of 35 people were killed, 14 others wounded, while 47 houses and places of worship were destroyed in the Boko-Haram- related violence in some parts of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital and environs between July and August las...
Six Nigerians have been arrested in India for defrauding hundreds of people through text messages and emails. According to news reports from India, the six Nigerians: Yoha Fred Jihan, 33; Tovy Evaka, 34; Yehike Enavhoro, 25; Amadin Jefferi, 31; Jarvis ...
If information at the disposal of LEADERSHIP is something to go by, then operatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will soon be in Nigeria to help combat the threats that the Islamic Sect, Boko Haram has posed to lives and properties in t...
Fellow Nigerians, it has become necessary to address you on recent events in some parts of the country that have threatened our collective security and shaken the foundations of our corporate existence as a nation. 2. You are all awar...
Five persons have been reportedly killed in cult related war in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta which occurred last Friday. Reports indicated that a 36-year old man identified as Emeka and father of four was reported to have been involv...
By unseemly installments, the dream of a new nation grounded on the egalitarian precepts of its founding nationalists is being destroyed by shadowy crisis entrepreneurs alleging injustice and chanting quirky mantras as they barbarously pluck at the del...
Bloody clashes by rival cult groups in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, have left no fewer than six persons dead. This was just as the newly-posted Commissioner of police, Mr Haruna John, had in a media briefing condemned the spate of cult activities ...
Unknown gunmen suspected to be armed robbers yesterday morning shot dead a young lady and two officials of the State Traffic Management Agency (TIMARIV) in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. When LEADERSHIP visited the scene of the incident...
There was palpable tension yesterday in Gombe town following the explosion of locally made bombs on Wednesday night at a relaxation spot, Tunfure Resort, in the outskirts of Gombe metropolis. Speaking to newsmen, the manager of the resort, ...
A Magistrates’ Court in Jos,Plateau State, yesterday sentenced a 24-year-old man, Yilsen Samuel, to 12 months imprisonment for breaking into a beer parlour. Samuel, who broke into the beer parlour located at CBN Road in Jos metropolis, at 3...
Mixed reactions have trailed the call by the Governors Abiola Ajimobi and Rauf Aregbesola, of Oyo and Osun States, respectively to reopen the unresolved case of the murder of former Attorney General of Nigeria and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola ...