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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Whistle Blower: EFCC Intercepts N250Million From Unknown Source In Lagos
By Sadiq Umar - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Monday intercepted the sum of N250 Million from yet to be identified person...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Buhari Orders Probe Of SGF, Babachir Lawal
By Sadiq Umar - President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered investigation into accusations of wrongdoing leveled against the Secretary to the Government of the Federation...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Banker Arrested Over Attempt To Assassinate Husband
By Dipo Awojobi - A banker and wife, Oluchi Tochukwu, was arrested Wednesday with two others by the Ogun State Police command over a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Fidelity Bank MD, Others In EFCC Net Over $115m Cash From Alison-Madueke
By Dipo Awojobi - The Managing Director of Fidelity Bank Plc, Nnamdi Okonkwo, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Okonkwo, according to...
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...
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...
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...
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.),...
Cults Clash: Assembly Urges Police To Beef Up Security In Ikorodu
By Dipo Awojobi - The Lagos State House of Assembly has called on the state Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni to beef up security...
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...
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...
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...
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...
153 Nigerians Awaiting Execution In China, Malaysia
By Dipo Awojobi - Not less than 153 Nigerians are presently awaiting execution for their involvement in illicit drug trade in Malaysia and China.
This...
Supreme Court To Deliver Judgement February 26 On Rev. King Death Sentence
By Dipo Awojobi - The Supreme Court yesterday in Abuja said it would on February 26, 2016, pronounce judgment in the appeal filed by...
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...
Deeper Life Pastor Kidnapped In Kogi -Abductors Demand N50m Ransom
By Dipo Awojobi - A senior pastor of one of the leading churches in the country, Deeper Life Christian Ministry has been kidnapped in...
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...
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...
Metuh’s Trial: Court Adjourns Case Till January 19
By Dipo Awojobi - The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the case involving the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic...
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,...
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...
Bail Application: Ex PDP Chairman To Know Fate On Thursday
By Nuel Suji - A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned hearing till Thursday, January 7, 2016, bail application by the former...
EFCC Arraigns Dokpesi On Six Count Charge
By Sadiq Umar, Abuja- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Wednesday arraigned the Chairman of DAAR Communications, Raymond Dokpesi, on a six count...
Security Robbers: Saraki Says Stolen N310million By Aides Not His
By Nuel Suji, Abuja - Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki on Tuesday dismissed claims that he was the owner of the N310million said to...
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...
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...
Police Deploy 19 AIGs, 49 CPs, Mbu, Ogunsakin, Others Affected
By Nuel Suji, Abuja.
The Police authorities have announced the redeployment of 19 Assistant Inspectors General of Police (AIGs) and 49 Commissioners of Police (CPs).
The...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
BREAKING: Court Uphold Death Sentence Against Ex-Egyptian President
An Egyptian court has upheld the death sentence imposed on ousted ex-President Mohammed Morsi over a mass jailbreak.
BBC report that the sentence was initially...
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,...
EFCC Detains Sen. Modu Sheriff On Corruption Charges
By Nuel Suji
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has detained a former governor of Borno state, Modu Sheriff, over allegations of corruption.
Sheriff is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Judge’s Illness Stalls Arraignment Of Kwara Commissioner, Saraki
By Sadiq Umar, Abuja.
The planned arraignment of Kwara State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Olatunji Oyeyemi Moronfoye, and Mr. Ope Saraki, Senior Special Adviser on...
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,...
EFCC To Arraign Emmanuel Owoicho, Five Others Over N115Million Oil Deal
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is set to arraign Emmanuel Owoicho, Managing Director, Owoema Resources Limited and five others over an alleged...
Police is like a ‘Ministry of Trouble’, That’s what keeps the working going,’ says...
Mr. Wilson Inalegwu is the Police Commissioner in charge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). He is a former deputy commissioner with versed experience...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Again, Boko Haram Abducts Scores In Borno, Boys, Men Taken Away
Suspected members of the Islamist insurgents, Boko Haram have abducted dozens of boys and men in a raid on a remote village in Borno,...
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,...
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...
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),...
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,...
Another Female Bomber Hits Kano
Less than 24-hours into the last Sunday attack by a suspected Boko Haram insurgent in Kano, another female suicide bomber in Nigeria’s Kano city...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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,...
Apo Shooting: Eye Witness Recounts How Bullet Hits Neighbour’s Stomach
An eye-witness Mr. Gambo Idris on Thursday gave a horrific picture of the controversial shooting by security operatives in Apo area Abuja in which 8...
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...
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...
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