By BANNERNEWS Reporter, Lagos Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested 135 suspected cultists and recovered 26 firearms during coordinated raids on criminal […]
Category: Crime/Judiciary
Motorcyclist Gets Life Jail For Raping Nursing Mother
By BANNERNEWS Reporter, Uyo An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a commercial motorcyclist, Michael Effiong Japhet, to life imprisonment for […]
Speed, Loss of Control By Trucks Responsible For Increasing Deaths – FRCS
By BANNERNEWS Reporter, Calabar The sector commander if the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRCS, Innocent Tommy Etuk has laid the blame for increasing fatal accident […]
Use of Minors in Sex Drug Promotion Lands Kano Herbal Trader in Sanctions Net
By BANNERNEWS Reporter, Kano The Kano State Film Censorship Board has sealed a herbal medicine shop for allegedly using minors in an indecent advertisement promoting […]
NUT Staff Slumps, Dies in Abuja
By BANNERNEWS Reporter, Abuja A staff member of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Gwagwalada chapter, Mr Jessey A. Audu, has died after slumping on […]
Outrage Boils: NUJ, Lawyer Blast Wike Over Threat To Shoot Journalist
By BANNERNEWS Reporter The storm trailing the incendiary remark by Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, has refused to abate, as the Nigeria Union of […]
NSCDC Nabs 6 Over Railway Vandalism in Kano
By BANNERNEWS Reporter, Kano The Kano State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested six suspected vandals accused of stealing […]
Witchcraft Accusation Turns Fatal in Rivers; Bayelsa Courts Hand Down Tough Rape Sentences
By BANNERNEWS Reporter A middle-aged man, Mr Nwalozie Chiwendu, has allegedly killed his elder brother, Mr Chidiebere Isaiah, following accusations of witchcraft in Umunwacha village, […]
Two Die in Bayelsa Crash En Route Late Deputy Governor’s Burial
By BANNERNEWS Reporter Two persons travelling to the burial of the late Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, lost their lives in a road […]
Cameroonian Legislator demands N200m from NPF in Court Over Ordeals
By BANNERNEWS Reporter Cameroon Lawmaker, Manghe Romeo Etta, has dragged the Nigeria Police to court over alleged fundamental rights abuse. Etta, a youth senator representing […]