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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Jigawa State has taken a 15-year-old boy into custody following the death of a 19-year-old man after a violent clash in Kafin Hausa Local Government Area. NSCDC spokesman ASC Badaruddeen Tijjani confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that the suspect, a resident of Auno village, allegedly ...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ado-Ekiti has sentenced 20-year-old Olanrewaju Timilehin to four months of community service for stealing five 25-litre kegs of palm oil valued at N300,000. Chief Magistrate Dolamu Babalogbon delivered the judgment on Tuesday after Timilehin entered a guilty plea to a two-count charge of stealing. Prosecutor Inspector Sodiq Adeniyi informed the ...
…Judge grants interim order against anti-graft agency …Tijjani accuses petitioner of covering up DSS investigation A Federal High Court in Kaduna has barred the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from arresting or harassing Alhaji Rabiu Tijjani, a Dubai-based Nigerian businessman, over allegations of a $1.9 million fraud. Justice Hauwa’u Buhari granted the interim injunction ...
By Muyideen Aliyu, llorin The Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday presented additional witnesses in the trial of former Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed and his ex-Commissioner for Finance, Ademola Banu, over an alleged ₦5.78 billion fraud. At the resumed hearing before Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday continued its case against former Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, and his ex-Commissioner for Finance, Ademola Banu, by presenting additional witnesses in the ongoing N5.78 billion fraud trial. At the resumed hearing before Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin, the sixth ...
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Monday, 21 July 2025, refused an application by former Kogi State governor Yahaya Adoza Bello seeking the release of his international passport to enable him to travel to the United Kingdom for medical treatment. Bello is facing prosecution by the Economic and Financial ...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of Saifullahi Haruna, an officer of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), for his involvement in an employment fraud scheme. Following a petition lodged against him, Haruna was arraigned before a Katsina State High Court on a one-count charge of obtaining money ...
Justice Alexander Owoeye of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday, 21 July 2025, ordered the final forfeiture of digital assets valued at $222,729.86 USDT recovered from Chinese nationals linked to cyber-terrorism and internet fraud. The funds were part of the proceeds confiscated from a syndicate of 792 alleged cryptocurrency investment and romance ...
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, on Monday, July 21, 2025, rejected the application of a former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello, for the release of his passport to enable him travel to the United Kingdom for medical treatment. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is prosecuting Yahaya Bello, ...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has reaffirmed its commitment to eliminating counterfeit and substandard medicines from Nigeria’s drug markets. This is contained in a statement on Monday in Abuja by Mrs Christiana Obiazikwor, NAFDAC’s Deputy Director of Public Relations. The statement followed a strategic meeting held in Lagos with ...
A former Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ikorodu branch, Bayo Akinlade, has condemned the Lagos State Government over the sentencing of 13 residents to three months in prison for public urination and defecation. The Environmental Court sitting in Bolade, Oshodi, had convicted the 13 individuals arrested earlier on Monday in Agege and Alimosho ...
Police in Cross River State have arrested a 35-year-old man, Adeshina Gilbert, over the brutal killing of a commercial driver in Obudu Local Government Area. The suspect, a resident of Abonkib community in Obudu Urban, was apprehended following a directive from the state Commissioner of Police, CP Rashid Afegba, who ordered a manhunt for all ...
The Anambra State Police Command has arrested two individuals for allegedly staging a fake kidnapping to extort ₦10 million from the family of one of the suspects. According to a statement issued on Monday by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, the suspects 28-year-old Chinecherem Nwokoye and her 30-year-old boyfriend, Chinecherem Aronu were ...
Gunmen suspected to be members of a notorious cult group have killed Chief Ferdinand Dabiri, a traditional ruler and vice chairman of the Obelle Council of Chiefs, in Obelle community, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. The tragic incident occurred on Saturday evening when the assailants stormed a meeting of community chiefs at Omuwoka ...
A 41-year-old woman identified as Mrs Benita Lurk Ikuenobe has been found dead inside the main auditorium of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), Prayer City, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State. The suspected suicide occurred on Friday, 18th July 2025, sparking shock and concern among worshippers at the popular religious facility. The ...
...Raids Lagos hotel, intercepts Italy, Pakistan-bound shipments in cereal packs The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has captured a notorious drug kingpin, Mr Okpara Paul Chigozie, ending a seven-year pursuit that spanned multiple states and international networks. The 60-year-old fugitive, long wanted for trafficking cocaine and methamphetamine, was arrested in Lagos alongside huge quantities ...
...Arms, livestock, explosives recovered as troops arrest seven suspects Troops of the Nigerian Army have intensified their offensive against terrorist networks and criminal syndicates across multiple theatres of operation, recording major successes over the weekend. A top military source disclosed that coordinated raids on Friday, 18th July 2025, led to the neutralisation of insurgents, recovery ...
...Warns public against deforestation, vows crackdown A magistrate court sitting in Kano has sentenced two men to prison for conspiracy and illegal tree felling, in breach of the state’s environmental protection laws. The convicts, Mr Salihu Mukhtar and his accomplice, were prosecuted for cutting down a tree without authorisation along Jigawa Road, Nasarawa GRA, Kano ...
A man identified as Mr Zape Upaa was mobbed on Saturday, 19th July 2025, by irate residents of Ukpiam community, Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, for allegedly attempting to dismiss reports of a violent herdsmen attack that left several villagers traumatised. Eyewitnesses confirmed that Upaa was attacked while trying to record videos to ...
By Seun Ibiyemi The Federal Operations Unit, Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has revealed that it intercepted six trailer loads of 50kg rice, 304kg of Cannabis Sativa (Indian Hemp), 7,900 litres of Premium Motor Spirit, one 40ft container load of used tyres, and other contraband goods worth ₦1.7 billion across the South-West ...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it recovered large quantities of banned Tramadol and opium pills during separate raids conducted over the past four days across four states. NDLEA’s spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, who made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the agency’s operatives carried out the raids between ...
A police officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Clement Yunana, has been killed in a hit-and-run incident in Gombe State, sparking a manhunt for the unidentified driver responsible. The Gombe State Police Command confirmed the incident in a statement released on Friday by its spokesperson, DSP Buhari Abdullahi. According to the statement, ASP Yunana, who ...
