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...
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...
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...
Court Grants EFCC Relief To Access Binance Transaction Details Of Nigerian Users
News Investigators/ The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered Binance Holdings Limited to provide the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission with...
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...
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...
Supreme Court Adjourns Nnamdi Kanu’s Case Until Sept. 14
News Investigators/ The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned hearing in the suit filed by the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of...
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...
AfDB Debars Chinese Firm, Zhonghao Over Alleged Fraudulent Practices
News Investigators/ The African Development Bank (AfDB) has debarred China Zhonghao Company, a civil engineering firm registered in Nigeria, for 18months over...
Iba Monarch: Four Persons Remanded In Prison Custody For Alleged Murder
LAGOS/By Dipo Awojobi - A High Court of Lagos State, Igbosere, Monday remanded in prison custody four men accused of kidnapping the traditional ruler of...
Accused Supreme Court Justice Granted Bail
By Sadiq Umar - A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to the Justice of the Supreme Court, Sylvester Ngwuta who...
N1.145Million Scam: Former Presidential Aspirant’s Trial Adjourned Till May 4
By Nuel Suji, Abuja.
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has adjourned till May 4, a case of job scam involving former presidential aspirant,...
Senate President Canvasses Stringent Measures Against Kidnappers
...wants Nigerians to enlist in the battle against terrorists
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja
President of the Senate Senator David Mark has renewed his call for tough...
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...
How Doctor ‘sedated, Raped’ Patient Inside Kwara Hospital
(News investigators) Ayodele Joseph, Chief Medical Director of Ayodele Hospital, Ilorin, Kwara State, has been accused of raping a patient who came...
Former Bayelsa Gov. Sylva Faces Fresh Corruption Charges
By Alaba Ajibade
The case involving a former governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Timipre Sylva, came up for mentioning Thursday at the Federal High Court...
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...
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...
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,...
PRESS RELEASE: Police Arrest Cult Leaders In Edo Over Violence
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IGP’s INTERVENTION IN EDO STATE YIELDS RESULTS
· Cult leaders arrested
The intervention of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP...
Former Vice Minister Gets Death Sentence For Taking $92.39m Bribe
News Investigators/ A former Chinese vice minister of public security, Sun Lijun, was on Friday sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
Assassins Shoot Rev Samuel Chinyereugo, Kill His Wife Peace In Edo Church
(News investigators) Gunmen suspected to be hired assassins have attacked a pastor, Rev Samuel Chinyereugo, and killed his wife, Peace, in Edo...
EFCC To Appeal Court Judgment On Fayose’s Accounts
By Dipo Awojobi - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday faulted an order by a Federal High Court asking it to...
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 ...
Armed Men Killed During Attack On INEC Facility In Owerri (Pics,Video)
(News investigators) 3 armed men linked to separatist Simon Ekpa have been killed by the police during an attack on an INEC...
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...
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...
Ecobank Arrests Manager Who Allegedly Stole N14m From Customers Account
By Dipo Awojobi - The management of Ecobank Nigeria has facilitated the arrest of the operational manager of its Ejigbo branch, Akhanenu Ikechukwu, 41,...
$6.2m Scam: Forensic Expert Confirms Buhari Signature Forged
News Investigators/ A forensic document examiner seconded to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Bamaiyi Haruna on Thursday said the analysis conducted...
Employment Racket : Police Nabbed Two In Adamawa
ADAMAWA/By Tom Garba, Yola - Two fraudsters issuing fake appointment letters to those seeking teaching appointments in public schools in Adamawa state have been...
EFCC Grills Former Benue Governor, Gabriel Suswan
By Sadiq Umar, Abuja - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, arrested a former Benue state governor, Gabriel Suswan, over allegations...
EFCC Re-Arraigns Ex-Abia Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu Over Money Laundering
By Dipo Awojobi - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday charged former Gov. Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia with money laundering...
Alleged Husband Killer: Court Adjourns Case Till Next Monday
By Dipo Awojobi - A High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State has adjourned till Monday the suit filed against Yewande Oyediran who allegedly killed...
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,...
Police I.G Directs Measure To Forestall Possible Boko Haram Attack
By Nuel Suji, Abuja.
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Solomon Arase, has directed the Zonal Assistant Inspectors-General and Commissioners in various Police formation to...
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...
EFCC Set To Arraign Tompolo, Akpobolokemi, Others
By Dipo Awojobi - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on Thursday January 14, arraign Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo), and Patrick Akpobolokemi,...
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,...
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,
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Court Declares Murder Charges Against Reps Leader, Doguwa Unconstitutional
A Federal High Court in Kano has declared Culpable Homicide charges, including Criminal Conspiracy Prosecution against the House of Representatives Majority Leader,...
Troops Arrest Suspect Of Kaduna Bombing
Troops are holding a man suspected to be connected with the explosion believed to have been targeted at General Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in...
Olu Falae’s Abductors Bag Life Sentence
By Sadiq Umar - An High Court Akure on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment the abductors of Afenifere chieftain and former Secretary to the...
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...
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...
Recovered Assets: FG Assures Of Commitment To 2020 Tripartite Agreement
News Investigators/ The Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami has assured of the Federal Government's commitment to the implementation of the 2020 Tripartite...
Army Clarifies Trial Of Ex-NAPL GMD, Says He’s Court Marshalled For Theft, Forgery
News Investigators/ The Nigerian Army has said that the former Group Managing Director (GMD), Nigeria Army Property Limited (NAPL), UM Mohammed, is...
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...
Attack On US Convoy: Security Forces Arrest 4 IPOB/ESN Commanders
(News investigators) US convoy attack: Couple, two others held in Anambra community
Four persons, including a couple have been...
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,...
We Are Not Competent To Probe NNPC – Says EFCC, ICPC
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, have said that the anti-corruption agencies lack...
How I Removed My Father’s Private Part, Four Teeth For Money Ritual, Confession Of...
News Investigators/ A dare-devil 20-year-old boy, simply identified as Ridwan, has told the Police how he killed...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
EFCC Vows To Secure More Convictions This Year
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has said expressed its readiness to improve on its scorecard of 177 convictions it recorded last year,...
18-Year-Old TV Anchor Drugged, Gang-Raped In Primary School Classroom In Niger
(News investigators) A young Nigerian television personality was sexually brutalised by criminals shortly after concluding a shift over the weekend,
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...
Governor’s Brother Arrested By EFCC Over N400m Campaign Funds
By Dipo Awojobi - The National Vice Chairman (South East) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Austin Umahi, and two others have been...
Abba Takes Over As IGP
By Olusegun Emmanuel, Abuja.The acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, formally took over on Friday from former Police boss, IGP Mohammed Abubakar (Rtd),...
“We Brought Down Crashed Helicopter’ – Bandits Claim Responsibility
Bandits have claimed responsibility for the crashed surveillance helicopter in Badna, Chukuba ward of Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.
Stanbic IBTC In Trouble Over Questionable Transactions
By Nuel Suji, Abuja.
The Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN) has commenced investigation into an alleged illegal transactions undertaken by the Stanbic IBTC Bank...
IGP Orders Audit Of Police Armouries Nationwide
By Emmanuel Adesuji, Abuja.
The Inspector-General of Police, Ag. IGP Suleiman Abba, has ordered a thorough audit of Police armouries nationwide.
In a statement Wednesday by...
Gwoza Attack: Police May Soon Declare 27 Missing Officers Dead
By Sadiq Umar, Abuja.
Twenty seven police officers who went missing after Boko Haram insurgents took control of Gwoza in Borno State in August, 2014,...
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...
Gunmen Kidnap 8 NYSC Members While Going To Camp In Sokoto – NYSC
(News investigators) Gunmen Suspected to be bandits have abducted eight members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, along a highway in...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Appeal Court Suspends Nnamdi Kanu’s Release, Uphold Terrorism Charges
Nnamdi Kanu inside the court during a hearing.
News Investigators/ The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday,...
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...
Wasila Tasi’u, 14year-Old Alleged Husband Killer Arraign In Court
Nigerian prosecutors have opened their case against a 14-year-old girl accused of murdering her 35-year-old husband, with testimony from a child allegedly sent to...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
FOR THE RECORD: Issues In Petition Against EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde
SENATE HEARING ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2015 AGAINST EFCC PREMISED BY PETITION FILED BY GEORGE UBOH
Law: Contrary to the provisions of Section 36 of...
EFCC Releases Amosu, Others On Bail, Seizes Passports
By Dipo Awojobi - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has released the immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.),...
9 Terrorists Killed In Gun Battles With Troops In Kaduna – Crime – Nairaland
(News investigators) No fewer than nine bandits were killed during gun battles with the troops and Special Forces of the Nigerian Army...
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...
Ese Oruru: Yunusa Dahiru Faces Five Count Charge
Yunusa Dahiru, the alleged abductor of Ese Rita Oruru, was on Tuesday, dragged before a Federal High Court in Yenegoa, the capital of Bayelsa...
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...
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...
NDLEA Arrests Notorious Cocaine Dealer In Adamawa
ADAMAWA/By Tom Garba, Yola - The Adamawa Command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA ) has confirmed the arrest and prosecution...
N585Million Dirty Deal: EFCC Grills Betta Edu, Releases Sadiya Umar Farouk
News Investigators/ Suspended Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Minister, Betta Edu on Tuesday appeared for questioning by the Economic and Financial Crimes...
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...
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...
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 Admonishes Wife To Submit To Husband
News Investigators/ The presiding Judge of a Customary Court sitting in Jikwoyi, Abuja, Dada Oluwaseyi, on Friday admonished one Murikat Nura to...
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...
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...
Running From Law ‘Only Exacerbates’ Your Problem, AGF Tells Yahaya Bello
News Investigators/ The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has asked the immediate past Governor of Kogi...
We Were Forced To Implicate Saraki – Offa Robbery Suspect
(News investigators) A witness, Shamsudeen Bada, on Thursday narrated at the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin how men of the Intelligence...
Orji Kalu’s N3.2Billion Fraud Trial: Witness Flee To Cameroon
By Sadiq Umar - A former accountant in the Abia State Government House, Akpan Udoh, who was scheduled to testify in the alleged N3.2...
Forgery Trial: Court Grants Saraki, Ekweremadu Bail
By Dipo Awojobi - Senate President Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu were Monday granted bail in the commencement of trial in the matter involving the alleged forgery...
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...
Sele-ebi Ware-ebi: Suspected Cultist Kills Man For Wearing Red Beret In Delta
A Suspected Cultist, Weekend, killed a 20-year-old man identified as Sele-ebi Ware-ebi after repeatedly stabbing him over a heated argument for putting on...
Bandits Kidnap 40 Kaduna Worshippers During Church Service, 15 Escape
(News investigators) Some bandits were reported to have at kidnapped at least 40 worshippers during service at Bege Baptist Church, Madala on...