‘Parents pressure children to be trafficked for prostitution’

Okechukwu Nwanguma

The Executive Director of Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) in a chat with ABIODUN ADESOGA speaks on children trafficking and the enormous pressure some parents place on their children.

Ex-Kwara Scholarship Board forged 326 signatures, says witness

Juliana Francis

A prosecution witness has told Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of a Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin, that the signatures of 326 students listed by the Kwara Scholarship Board under the leadership of Alhaja Fatimoh Yusuf to be beneficiaries of the N50million state bursary were forged.

RRS arrests 18 suspected cultists over murder of eight people

Juliana Francis

Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Lagos State Police Command, have arrested 18 suspected cultists for allegedly killing eight people.

Police smash gang using stolen SIMs, BVN to empty bank accounts

Taiwo Jimoh

A 37-year-old alleged serial robber, Raphael Ejuwa, has been arrested for buying stolen phones, Subscriber identification Module (SIM) and Automated Teller Machine (ATM) from an alleged thief.

My son didn’t kill any lawyer, cries distraught mother

…Police, DPP at logger heads

Juliana Francis

Grace

A distraught mother, Mrs Grace Ajayi, whose 32-year-old son, Richard Osakue Ajayi, has been incarcerated at Nasarawa Correctional Centre over allegation of murder, has urged the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, to do everything possible to ensure her son was released.

Two arrested over alleged assassination, kidnapping

Juliana Francis

IGP Mohammed Adamu

Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested two suspects, who allegedly specialised in armed robbery, kidnapping and assassination in Anambra State.

We used phantom contracts to defraud businessman N14m, says scavenger

Juliana Francis

Four men, who specialised in scavenging through waste bins at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, for discarded business proposals, in order to use them to defraud unsuspecting businessmen, have been arrested.