Legal Nigeria

Iniabasi Umo Ekemini Otuakak Edet, a 21-year-old man, has been sentenced to death by hanging for robbing a pharmacy. Edet, an indigene of Oruko, Orueffong Oruko Local Government Area of the state admitted to taking part in the robbery of […]

By Evelyn Usman A six-man robbery gang yesterday shot a bank customer, who had gone to withdraw an undisclosed amount from one of the new generation banks at Odunade, Alaba area of Lagos, dead, carting away the withdrawn amount. The […]

ABUJA—About three months after the Catholic Church of Annunciation, Kubwa, was made Parish by the Archdiocese of Abuja, suspected armed robbers invaded it and took away valuable equipment and a Toyota Camry. The robbers, who have constantly kept Kubwa residents in  […]

Absence of trial judge, Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye, of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, has stalled the trial of Seun Oladapo,  a suspected killer of a Lagos-based human rights crusader, Kunle Fadipe. Justice Ipaye, who has been sitting since […]

•Police arrest 595, prosecute 400, get convictions for 300 Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday presided over the state security council meeting with a resolve to stop the menace of robbery in traffic in the state’s trouble spots. He promised […]