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A member of a four-man robbery gang, Offor Joseph, arrested recently by men of the Lagos state police command, has told the police that he gave his mother N50,000 from his share of the N900,000 he made from his first operation as an armed robber. Offor, who was arrested alongside Chinedu Ogu, a member of his gang after robbing a lebanese man, said they have informants that go to banks to monitor individuals who go to withdraw large sum. The informant then calls then to inform them of such customers. “This is my third robbery operation. In the first operation, we made N900,000 and I got N200,000 as my share. I used the first money I made to take care of some pressing family issues and gave my mother N50,000; sister N15,000. We received information that a Lebanese man had gone to one of the new generation banks in Satellite town to withdraw a huge sum of money. We have an informant, who pretends to be carrying out transaction in the bank, but whose job is...

A perfect gentleman, philanthropist and astute businessman, Sylvester Chinedu Nweke, the CEO Don Sylvester records warms himself into the hearts of his kinsmen and the society at large.

The man pictured above, died in a commercial bus in Tudun Wada area of Kano state last night. According to Rariya, the man died while himself and other passengers in the bus where heading to their destination in Kano city. He had no phone on him or any form of identification. His corpse has been deposited at the Murtala Mohammed General hospital in Kano. Anyone who knows him should contact the nearest police station in the state.

A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court today discharged a 40-year-old herdsman, Mohammed Burtu, charged with receiving a stolen cow. The Magistrate, Mr Ibrahim Emmanuel, discharged Burtu, a resident of Karau-Karau village in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State, for “lack of diligent prosecution’’. At the resumed hearing of the case, the prosecutor, Insp. Musa Abdullahi, asked for an adjournment, to enable him to present the investigating police officer.   Emmanuel, however, refused the application, noting that the case had been severally adjourned because of non-availability of prosecution’s witness. The magistrate reminded the prosecutor that at the last sitting, he promised to produce the witness on the next adjourned date.   “The case has suffered series of adjournments at the instance of the prosecution. Every person charged with an offence is considered innocent until conviction. It is no longer in the interest of justice to adjourn t...