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Trader jailed 9 months for shop breaking

A Jos Magistrates’ Court on Friday sentenced a 40-year old trader, Yakubu…

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Magistrate sentences minor to 6 months in juvenile home

A Jos Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered that a 14-year old boy…

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US citizen wrongly imprisoned for 48 years gets $7m settlement

A 71-year-old man, who spent nearly five decades in prison for a…

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Estate agent docked for alleged N190,000 house rent scam

An Estate agent, Robinson Eyibowa, who allegedly obtained the sum of N190,000…

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EFCC narrates how staff stole N190m, $70.8k from First Bank coffers

Court orders interim forfeiture of monies to FG The Federal High Court…

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Three friends docked for malicious damage of economic trees

Three friends were on Wednesday docked in an Okitipupa Chief Magistrates’ Court…

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Panel beater jailed two years for unlawful firearm possession

A Jos Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday sentenced a 24-year old panel beater,…

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Businessman jailed 3 months over threat to life

A Jos Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced a 40- year-old businessman, Ibrahim…

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Miner jailed 2 years for N800, 000 fraud

A Jos Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced a 26- year-old miner, Anas…

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Foreigners accused of defrauding Ecobank lose bid to quash arrest, extradition

A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos on Monday has dismissed the…

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Police nab 873 kidnapping, armed robbery suspects in Kano

The Kano State Police Command has arrested 873 suspects for alleged robbery,…

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Police arraign man for allegedly stealing sand worth N200,000

A 32-year-old man, Kuju Abel, who allegedly stole a tipper of sand…

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