Drivers Petition IGP Over Extortion In PH
The Rivers Drivers Transport Co-operative Union Limited, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police (IGP), over the incessant mounting of illegal roadblocks, extortions and...
Scavenger Bags Jail Term For Drug Trafficking
A Federal High Court in Lagos last Monday sentenced a scavenger, Alhaji Zidam, 24, to 12 months imprisonment for trafficking 150 grammes of narcotics.
Zidam...
Police Arraign Man For Alleged Membership Of Cult Group, Possession Of Illicit Drugs
The Benue Police Command on Monday arraigned one Jerry Tersoo in a Makurdi Magistrates' Court for allegedly belonging to a cult group and being...
Phone Thief Jailed 1 month
A 25-year-old unemployed, Ayobami Micheal, is to spend the next one month in Kirikiri Prisons, Lagos,
for stealing phone worth N60,000, an Ikeja Chief Magistrates'...
Plea Of Guilty
By entering a plea of guilty, a defendant is admitting his/her guilt thereby forfeiting her right to a trial. Section 218 of the criminal...
CP Assures Improved Security In Rivers Judiciary
The Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr Zaki Mohammed Ahmed, has promised to ensure improved security in the state judiciary as well as to...
Breach Of Peace: Court Remands APC Chieftain, Others
An Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court in Osun State yesterday remanded in Ilesa prison an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Mr Fatai Oyedele, 60, and...
Plea Of Alibi
The word “Alibi” simply means elsewhere. It is a defence based on the balance of probabilities. When an accused raises the defence of Alibi,...
Community Demands Release Of Kidnap Victim
The Ihuaba community in Ahoada East Local Government Area in Rivers State, has appealed to the abductors of Chief Abbot Ogbobula to release him...
Police Arrest Man, Wife For Killing Armed Robbery Suspect
Officials of Igwuruta Police Division, Rivers State, have arrested a 50-year-old man and his wife for allegedly killing a member of armed robbery gang...
