French MPs have passed a law that makes it illegal to pay for sex and imposes fines of up to €3,750 (£3,027, $4,274) for those buying sexual acts, reports the BBC. Those convicted would also have to attend classes to […]
An Abuja High Court has ordered the federal government to allow former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), access to his lawyer during working hours to enable him defend himself in the charged brought against him by government. […]
Details of the 2016 budget has been transmitted to the President Muhammadu Buhari. The Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang, confirmed this to Channels Television. Senator Enang says he went into the President’s Office […]
A 30-year-old man, Odion Igiogbe, was on Wednesday docked before an Egor Magistrates’ Court in Benin over the alleged rape of a 28-year-old woman. The Prosecutor, C.S.O. Nnamdi, told the court that the accused committed the offence on Feb. 15, […]
The Police in Lagos have arrested a 33-year old man, who allegedly raped his neighbour’s eight-year-old daughter in Idimu area of the state . The suspect identified as Okwuome Henry , reportedly invited the victim, a primary school pupil whose […]
A 35-year-old Nigerian man denied possessing more than four kilograms of marijuana with the intention to sell when he appeared before the Dubai Criminal Court today, April 5. The man was arrested on January 20 2016 after police were tipped […]
The trial of Nigeria’s Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on alleged falsification of assets at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has been adjourned till Wednesday, April 6. During hearing on Tuesday the counsel to the Senate President, Mr Paul Usoro, […]
A member of a suspected three-man gang that specialises in vandalising the Light Up Lagos Project, an initiative that lights up street lights at night, has told the police that he did not take part in the act. Lucky Udeagwu […]
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has accused the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Olisa Metuh, of attempting to use “cooked up” allegations to frustrate his trial before the […]
By Esther Onyegbula Lagos State Police Command has sanctioned the policeman, who allegedly demanded N2,000 from a vendor, Ifeanyi Friday, who went to Kester divisional police headquarters to make a report last Tuesday of assault by Newspapers agents in Lagos. Disclosing […]