Court Fixes Nov. 7 For Ruling On Abdulrasheed Maina
The Federal
High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, said that it would deliver its ruling on the
bail application filed by the former Chairman of...
Kidnapping: NIMCC Advocates Use Of Personal Locator Beacons As Security Measure
By Sadiq Umar
As the incidence of kidnapping increases in the country, Nigerians have been advised to get personal locator beacons as part of safety...
Alleged N5.8 Billion Fraud: Court Remands Ex-Katsina Governor Ibrahim Shema In EFCC Custody
By Sadiq Umar - A Federal High Court sitting in Katsina Tuesday ordered that former governor of Katsina state, Ibrahim Shehu Shema, be remanded...
EFCC Secures Final Forfeiture Of N60 Million, Prado Jeep
News Investigators/ The Federal High Court, sitting in Gusau, Zamfara State has granted the prayers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,...
Court Orders Final Forfeiture Of Army General’s N426.7m
News Investigators/ Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, May 8, 2020, ordered the final...
Man Who Accused Former EFCC Boss Of Corruption Bags Four Years Jail
By Sadiq Umar - The man who once accused former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, of diverting proceeds...
Alleged Fake Miracles: Pastor Petitions I-G, Demands Justice, Apology
(News Investigators)/ Founder and General Overseer, Light Way Ministry, Warri, Melody Adjija, has demanded for justice over the circulation of a scandalous...
ICPC, EFCC Probe NPC Over Alleged Shady Contract Award
News Investigators/ The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have commenced...
My Husband Is Serial Liar, Not Trustworthy, Woman Tells Court
News Investigators/ A mother of two, Alimot Idris, on Tuesday, prayed a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve her eight-year-old...
Experts Crack Serial Killer’s Code 51 Years After Being Sent To U.S. Paper
News Investigators/ A coded message sent by the Zodiac Killer to The San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 has finally been cracked, the...
Abeokuta Bank Teller Bags 18 Months Imprisonment For Stealing N2.8M
News Investigators/ An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday sentenced a 41-year-old bank teller, Philips Ogorome to 18 months imprisonment for stealing N2.8...
We’Re Gathering Intel On Nigerians Indicted In U.S, Says EFCC
One of the alleged scammers
By Sadiq Umar - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it...
Court Dissolves 15-Year-Old Marriage Over Theft, Abandonment
News Investigators/ A Customary Court in Mapo, Ibadan on Wednesday dissolved a 15-year-old marriage between a trader, Basirat Rahmon and her estranged...
IGP Orders Payment Of Salaries Of Sick Cop, After Intervention By “Brekete Family”
By Sadiq Umar, Abuja.
The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, on Wednesday directed the immediate payment of salaries due to a sick police...
How 22 Year Old Female Dancer Was Sexually Assaulted @ Lagos Carnival, Abandoned By...
By Sadiq Umar - A 22-year-old lady @theibkolukoya shared on her Instagram how she was sexually assaulted at the the just concluded Lagos State Carnival...
Nigeria Police, INTERPOL Arrest 3 Suspects Over Cybercrime
News Investigators/ Operatives of the Nigeria Police Cybercrime Unit and the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB), Abuja have arrested three suspects over...
Police Arraign Surety For Failing To Produce Suspect
News Investigators/ A 47-year-old businessman, Segun Isaac, on Wednesday appeared in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly failing to produce a suspect...
Man Stabs His Mother To Death In Kano (Photo)
(News investigators) A 22-year-old man identified as Ibrahim Musa stabbed his biological mother to death in Kano,
Incest: Man, 41 Arrested For Allegedly Defiling, Raping 16-Year Old Daughter
News Investigators/ A 41-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly defiling and raping his 16-year-old daughter.
The man name...
Ray Hushpuppi Has A Case To Answer With EFCC
News Investigators/ Nigerian most-wanted hacker, Ramoni Igbalode, alias Ray hushpuppi, recently arrested by the International Police( Interpol) and...
DSS Arraigns Two Artisans For Cloning Gov. Ambode’s Phone Number
By Dipo Awojobi - The Department of State Security (DSS) on Wednesday arraigned two artisans before an Isolo Magistrate Court for allegedly cloning the mobile...
Bloody Weekend In Enugu: Bride, Groom Shot Dead On Wedding Eve
No fewer than 5 persons including a bride and groom billed to wed on Saturday 5th September 2014 in Enugu were Friday night shot...
Goje Didn’t Benefit From Gombe’s N5Billion Loan, Witness Tells Court
By Nuel Suji - A witness in Senator Danjuma Goje’s alleged N25 billion fraud case on Tuesday told a Federal High Court that no...
Farida Dankaka Sells Jobs In Dollars, FCC Officials Allege
News Investigators/ Some senior officials of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), have accused the chairman of the commission, Farida Dankaka of job...
Police Arrest “Yahoo Boys” For Burying New Born Baby In Rivers
(News investigators) Members of a local vigilante group in charge of Eagle Island, Port Harcourt City local government area of Rivers State,...
Certificate Forgery: I Wasn’t Arraigned In 1990 – Sacked Bayelsa Deputy Gov-Elect
...threatens PDP chieftain, demands 7 days ultimatum for retraction
News Investigators/ Embattled All Progressives Congress (APC) deputy governorship...
Man, Girlfriend Bag Jail Terms For Stealing 64 Chickens
News Investigators/ A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State has jailed a 35-year-old man, Abdullahi Sani, and his 20-year-old girlfriend, Sarah...
EFCC Recovers N4.3Billion Subsidy Fund
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Larmorde has said the commission has recovered N4.3 billion from Oil subsidy...
N1.35 Billion Money Laundry: Court Grants Lamido, Sons Bail
By Sadiq Umar, Abuja.
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday granted former Jigawa state governor, Sule Lamido and his two sons, bail.
Senior Lamido,...
EFCC Arrests 23 Suspected Internet Fraudsters In Benue
(News investigators) 23 Suspected Internet Fraudsters Nabbed in Makurdi
Operatives of the Makurdi Zonal Command of the Economic and...
Olisa Metuh Slumps In Court
By News Investigators - Former National Publicity Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, on Monday collapsed in court during the resumption...
Videos: Confusion As EFCC Denies Raiding Ambode’s HOUSE
(NEWS INVESTIGATORS) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has denied raiding the residence of the immediate past Governor of Lagos State,...
Metuh Bags 7yrs, To Refund N425m To FG
News Investigators/ Federal High Court, Abuja, presided over by Justice Okon Abang today, Tuesday gave a seven year jail term sentence to...
Ex Banker Jailed 18 Years For Fraud
News Investigators/ A former Relationship Manager with Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, GTB in Enugu,Onyekachi Nwosu was on Thursday, sentenced to Eighteen (18)...
Court Remands Cook For Alleged Cheating
News Investigators/ An Upper Area Court in Zuba, on Thursday, ordered that a 22-year-old cook, Murtala Mohammed who allegedly cheated a mobile...
Alleged N33Billion Embezzlement: Reps Demand Sack Of NEMA DG, Mustapha Maihaja
The House of Representatives on Thursday recommended the sack and immediate prosecution of the Managing Director of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mustapha Maihaja,...
Dangote’s Liaison With Kidnappers Murdered, Body Dumped In Gutter
By Dipo Awojobi - Istifanus Bello Gurama, a senior strategist with Dangote Industries Limited, who was reportedly kidnapped three weeks ago, has been murdered.
Security...
Police Storm Kidnappers’ Den In Bauchi, Rescue 16 Victims
(News investigators) Operatives of the Nigeria Police in Bauchi have rescued 16 kidnapped victims during a raid on kidnappers’ hideouts in the...
EFCC Arrests Fake DSS Officer Who Stole From A Mauritius National
News Investigators/ Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), have arrested a 32-year old Boniface Oburuku for theft of a...
Banditry: Police Confirm Attack On School In Katsina State
News Investigators/ The Police Command in Katsina, on Saturday confirmed an attack by gunmen on Government Science Secondary School (GSSS) Kankara, on...
Gunmen Abducts Bayelsa Commissioner’s Six-Year-Old Son
(New Investigators) Some unknown gunmen in the late hours of Sunday, invaded the official residence of the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Water...
Rape: Speak Out, Police Appeal To Victims
(NEWS INVESTIGATORS) The Police Public Relation Officer of the FCT Command, Anjuguri Manzah, has appealed to victims of rape to speak...
Ogun: EFCC Grills Zenith Bank Officials Over Alleged Culpability In Electoral Fraud
News Investigators/ Some members of staff of the Zenith Bank have been grilled by the Economic and...
Police Arrest 5 Persons Over Alleged Kidnapping, Sexual Abuse
News Investigators/ The police, on Sunday, said that they had arrested five members of a kidnap gang that specialised in abduction of...
Panel Recommends Sacking Of Suspended SEC’s DG, Mounir Gwarzo
By Sadiq Umar - The Investigative Panel of Inquiry set up to investigate allegations of financial impropriety and abuse of office leveled against the...
Bala Ciroma Replaces Bello As New FCT Police Commissioner
By Sadiq Umar - The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has announced the appointment Bala Ciroma as the new Commissioner of Police for...
EFCC Boss, Ibrahim Magu, Keyamo Queried Over Repeated Corruption Charges Against CCT Chairman
By Sadiq Umar - The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has been queried over its decision to...
Court Grants Dino Melaye N10 Million Bail
By Sadiq Umar - A High Court sitting in Lokoja, Kogi state capital, has granted bail to controversial senator, Dino Melaye, after nearly two...
Police Arrest Suspected Kidnappers Who Murdered Dangote Employee
By Dipo Awojobi - The Nigerian police said they have arrested three of the kidnappers who murdered one of the employees of Dangote Group...
Bribe For Promotion: Police Declare Sen. Misau Wanted, Accuse Him Of Desertion
By Sadiq Umar - The Nigerian Police on Sunday took a swoop on Senator Isah Hamman Misau, declaring him wanted over allegations of forge...
NJC Recommends Dismissal Of Ofili-Ajumogobia, Agbadu-Fishim, Four More Judges Under Investigation
By Nuel Suji - The National Judicial Council (NJC) has recommended the dismissal of two High Court judges after it found them culpable of...
PRESS RELEASE: Police Arrest Cult Leaders In Edo Over Violence
Ref No: CZ:5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.2/ Date: 14th May, 2015.
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PRESS RELEASE
IGP’s INTERVENTION IN EDO STATE YIELDS RESULTS
· Cult leaders arrested
The intervention of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP...
6 Men Arrested Over Rape Of Housewife, 2 Girls In Kebbi
(NEWS INVESTIGATORS) Six men have been arrested for allegedly raping a housewife and two young girls at Warrah, Ngaski Local Government Area...
Manslaughter: Appeal Court Affirms Five Years Jail Term For Actress, Fiberesima
By Dipo Awojobi - The Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal has upheld the judgment of a Lagos State High Court sentencing an...
Insurgent Attacks: Borno To Rebuild 200 Houses
Borno state government has assured residents of Kawuri village of its decision to re-build about 200 houses destroyed last week by suspected insurgents in...
Why Am I Being Investigated By EFCC- HoS, Oyo-Ita
(NEWS INVESTIGATORS) The Head of Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, has confirmed that she was indeed invited by the Economic and Financial...
EFCC Arrest Ex-Governor Achike Udenwa, For Flouting Administrative Bail
By Nuel Suji - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday arrested the former
governor of Imo State Achike Udenwa in connection with alleged...
IGP Tasks Petroleum, Illegal Bunkering Taskforce On Firmness
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Mohammed Adamu has called on the Special Task Force on Petroleum and Illegal Bunkering to...
N1.8b Subsidy Scam: EFCC Re-arraigns Tukur, Alao, Others
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday re-arraigned two oil marketers, Mahmud Tukur and Abdullahi Alao, who are standing over an alleged...
Internet Fraud: FBI Nabs More Nigerians In U.S.
(NEWS INVESTIGATORS) Scores of Nigerians have been arrested in U.S. by the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) in a major conspiracy to...
Internet Fraud: EFCC Arrests Hotelier, 79 Others In Lagos
News Investigators/ Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested a 30-year-old Oladimeji Olusegun Ogunfolaju, owner of Lakers Hotel...
Accused Ex-NNPC GMD, Andrew Yakubu, Gets N300Million Bail
By Sadiq Umar - A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday granted bail to the former Group Managing Director (GMD) of the...
Bayelsa Speaker’s Brother Kidnapped
Unknown gunmen in Bayelsa Monday abducted Iniokpoemi Benson, younger brother of the Speaker of the Bayelsa House of Assembly, Mr. Kombowei Benson, early today.
The abduction...
Borno Director Bags Six Months Jail Term For Obstructing Justice
News Investigators/ Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, on Monday, June 22, 2020, convicted and...
Teenager Allegedly Hacks Into Wema Bank Account, Steals N4m
Wema Bank
(News Investigators)/ A teenager, Nonso Okereke, was on Wednesday brought before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in...
Again, Court Orders Forfeiture Of 56 Houses Allegedly Owned By Ex-Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alsison-Madueke
By Sadiq Umar - A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the interim forfeiture of 56 houses believed to be owned by...
My Wife ls Promiscuous, Sleeps Around –Man Tells Court
News Investigators/ A 42-year-old businessman, Olayinka Oyeniyi, on Monday told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos State that his wife, Sekinat was...
Igbinedion’s N25 Billion Scam: Judgement Expected Today
By Nuel Suji, Abuja.
The Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo state, is expected to deliver judgement in the case of N25 billion...
Court Remands Man, 50, For Allegedly Defiling 4-Year-Old Girl
News Investigators/ An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, remanded a 50-year-old man, Usman Tajudeen, at the Correctional Centre in Ado-Ekiti for...
Operation Puff Adder: Police Arrest 60 Kidnappers, 2 Female ‘Cook’
Suspected kidnappers paraded by Police
(News Investigators)/The Nasarawa State Police Command says it has arrested 62 suspected kidnappers...
Alleged $153m Fraud: First Bank Director Reveals How Diezani Removed $70m From NNPC Coffers
News Investigators/ A first prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Dauda Lawal, Executive Director, First Bank Plc,...
Internet Fraud: 2 Bags Jail Sentence In Kaduna
News Investigators/ The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kaduna Zonal Office on Thursday secured the conviction of Idahosa Bobby and Aidamebor...
1500 Nigerians In Italian Prison, Says Envoy
By News Investigators - The Italian Ambassador to Nigeria, Stefanou Pontesilli, says no fewer than 1500 Nigerians are serving jail terms for various offences...
Court Jails ‘Gaddafi’ 16 Years For Defrauding 194 Widows
Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, on Tuesday, May 16, 2020, sentenced and convicted an...
Man, 54, Sets 5 Step-Children Ablaze In Ondo
News Investigators/ A 54-year-old man has been arrested by the Police Command in Ondo State for allegedly setting five of his step-children...
Rights Groups Seek Mental Evaluation Of Lagos Mother Who Killed Own Baby
News Investigators/ Human rights groups have appealed to the Attorney-General of Lagos State, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), to compel one Funmilola Adisa to...
Court Serves Warrant On DSS, AGF For Release Of Sambo Dasuki
By News Investigators /The Federal High Court in Abuja has formally served a warrant of release of Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) on the Director...
Crackdown On Looters: EFCC, ICPC Turn Searchlight On GTB, Others
President Muhammadu Buhari's avowed determination to crackdown on corrupt officials is expected to provoke chain of reactions including a searchlight on banks that acted...
Contempt: Court Rules On Kashamu Vs NDLEA Today
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos will today rule on contempt trial slammed against the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and the Attorney General...
Businesswoman In Court For Allegedly Pouring Hot Water On Neighbour
LAGOS/News Investigators/ A businesswoman, Onifunto Ogunshola, who allegedly poured boiled rice water on her neighbour, n Monday appeared in an Ikeja Chief...
EFCC Arrests Two Suspects For $7.9m Scam
Two suspected fraudsters who allegedly defrauded a foreign investor of the sum of $7.9 ( Seven Million, Nine Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) have...
Buhari’s Nominee Remanded In Prison Over Alleged N182Million Fraud
By News Investigators- Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin has remanded Dr. Saadu Alanamu in prison custody for alleged fraud to the tune...
Stolen Mace Saga: Police Allege Security, Senator’s Complicity
The Divisional Police Officer in the National Assembly, Sulu-Gambari Abdul, on Wednesday blamed the April 18 invasion of the Senate and removal of the...
Aborted Wedding: Court Tells Woman To Refund Ex-Fiancé
(News Investigators)/ A Gudu Grade I Area Court in Abuja has ordered a 22-year-old woman, Aisha Shetima to meet with her estranged...
Ibinabo Fiberesima to Remain in Prison, Court Rules
By Dipo Awojobi - Embattled ex-beauty queen, and President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, Ibinabo Fiberesima, who is currently serving a 5-year...
Alleged N100m Bribe: Chinese Trial Begins June 29
News Investigators/ The trial of two Chinese, Meng Wei Kun and Xui Kuoi earlier slated to begin , Monday, June 15,...
APC Alleges Plot By Rivers Govt To Release 3 Notorious Armed Robbers
By Jackson Udeani - The All Progressive Congress (APC) in Rivers State has raised an alarm on alleged plot by the Rivers State Government...
Press Release: EFCC Partners NCC On Corruption
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde has commended the partnership between the EFCC and the Nigerian Communication Commission, NCC,...
Oyo Govt, Police Vow To Fish Out Killer Rapists Of Student, Pregnant Woman
IBADAN/News Investigators/ The government of Oyo State and the State Police Command have vowed to work harmoniously to ensure the arrest of...
How Police Commander Conspired With Criminals to Siphon Crude Oil – EFCC Witness
A witness in the on-going trial of Dodo Chilla Bulus, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, has told the court how the commander of Task Force...
3 Kitchen Staff Of FGGC, Akure In Police Net Over Use Of Sanitary Pad...
By Dipo Awojobi - Three non-academic staff of the Federal Government Girls College (FGGC) Akure, Ondo State have been arrested by men of the...
Six Years After, Supreme Court Orders Retrial Of Former Intercontinental Bank MD, Erastus Akingbola,...
By Sadiq Umar - The Supreme Court has ordered a resumption of trial of former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc, Erastus...
Police Parade 32 Kaduna Highway Kidnappers
By Imam Ibrahim - The Police has paraded 32 suspects in connection with the Kaduna highway kidnappings, even as it said the arrested suspects...
Room Attendant Docked For Allegedly Stealing $3,200 From Hotel Guest
Judiciary
ABUJA/News
Investigators/The police on Friday arraigned a 32-year-old room attendant,
Obinna Odoh, in a Wuse Zone II Magistrates’ Court ...
Police Admits N5.6m Ransom Payment In Lagos Kidnapping
By Dipo Awojobi - The police in Lagos has discredited their earlier claim that they secured the release of three students of the Babington...
Bandits’ Control Of 23 LGAs Is Alarming
(News investigators) Three months into President Bola Tinubu’s administration, insecurity is once more escalating rapidly. A report that at least 23 local...
Whistle-Blower Policy Is Yielding, Says F.G. As Another $151million, N8billion ‘Loots’ Discovered
By Sadiq Umar - The recent Federal Government’s Whistle-blower policy has started yielding fruit with the recovery of the sum of US$151 million and...
DSS Coercing INEC Officials To Recant Signature -PDP Senators Allege
By Nuel Suji
Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Senators yesterday accused the Department of States Security Services(DSS) of forcing official Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to recant...
How First Bank Helped Ex- Defence Chief To Lodge $752, 000 Alleged Corruption Money
By Sadiq Umar - A Relationship Manager of First Bank, Fatima Dauda, on Monday told a Federal High Court how she assisted former Chief...
Why Obanikoro Is Still In EFCC Detention
By Dipo Awojobi - There are strong indications that a former Minister of State (Defence) Musiliu Obanikoro is yet to refund the N785million allegedly...
N7.74bn Alleged Fraud: Kenny Martins, Three Others Get June 30 Date
News Investigators/ The trial of Kenny Martins who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for alleged N7.74bn...
Anti-Graft War: EFCC Arrests Former Airforce Chief, AVM. Amosu
By Nuel Suji - Former Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshall Adesola Amosu(rtd) has been arrested by the officials of the Economic and...
Police Commence Operation Absolute Sanity, Deploy Special On Abuja-Kaduna Highways
By Sadiq Umar - The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris has ordered the immediate deployment of a Joint Police Team to combat incidences...
BREAKING: Olisa Metuh Gets Bail
...With N400Million Bail Bond
By Dipo Awojobi - The federal high court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the embattled National Publicity Secretary of...
American Businessman Commits Suicide In Lagos Over Economic Crunch
By Dipo Awojobi - A 57 year old American businessman identified as, Charles Carlson, allegedly hung himself on the ceiling in his hotel room...
Ex- “Sharia Governor” Ahmed Yerima Arraigned Over N1bn Fraud
By Sadiq Umar - The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) on Thursday arraigned former Ahmed Yerima in Gusau High Court for alleged misappropriation of...
Just In: Court Frees Nnamdi Kanu
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Thursday discharged and acquitted leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu,...
FG Slams 20-Count Charge Against Godwin Emefiele
News Investigators/ The federal government has slammed a fresh 20-count charge against the suspended Governor of the Central Bank (CBN), Godwin Emefiele,...
Again, Female Bomber Hits Kano Poly, 3 Dead, 7 Injured, 3 Insurgents Nabbed In...
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja.
Another female suicide bomber Wednesday detonated an explosive in a school compound, killing herself and three students of Kano State Polytechnic,...
ICPC Arraigns Ex-Skye Bank Official Over N78.5Million Fraud
By Sadiq Umar - The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has charged a former staff of Skye Bank, Yemi-Aris Olaniran,...