CRIME
Corruption: I’ll Challenge My Conviction At Supreme Court – APC Senator, Nwaoboshi Vows
Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi(APC, Delta North) has vowed to immediately challenge the Court of Appeal judgment which convicted him over corruption-related charges at the Supreme Court. In a statement in A...
Court Jails Senator Nwaoboshi 7 Years For Money Laundering
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, Friday, convicted and sentenced Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, senator representing Delta North senatorial district at the National Assembly, to seven years imprisonment and ordered that his two companies, Golden Tou...
Court Orders Immigration, Others To Release Ukpo’s Biodata To Ike Ekweremadu
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the Nigerian Immigration Service and three banks to immediately release details of David Ukpo to the detained former Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Ike Ekweremadu to defend himself in a London...
Buhari Pays Tribute To Soldiers Killed In Niger Attack, Says Killers Must Not Go Free
President Muhammadu Buhari has described Thursday’s attack in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State as a direct assault on Nigeria. The President, in a statement issued Friday by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, said the attackers would not go un...
Sharia Court Sentences Three Men To Death By Stoning In Bauchi
Three men were sentenced to death by stoning by a Sharia Court sitting in Ningi, the headquarters of Ningi LGA in Bauchi State. They were found guilty of homosexuality, which is prohibited in Islam. The convicted persons are Abdullahi Abubakar Bet...
UK Court Adjourns Ike Ekweremadu’s Organ Harvesting Trial To July 7
The former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, on Thursday, appeared before Uxbridge Magistrate’s Court in London, facing charges under Britain’s Modern Slavery Act. The case has been adjourned to July 7 at Westminster Magistrate Court to al...
NSCDC Arrest Three Suspects Over Arms-Bearing, Theft In Kwara
Two suspects were paraded on Thursday in Ilorin by the Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, for allegedly bearing illegal arms. They are Alhaji Abdullahi, (19) and John Inyeka, both of Agbede village in Moro Loc...
NDLEA Confirm The Arrest Of Notorious Female Drug Dealer In Rivers
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said its operatives have arrested a notorious female drug dealer in Obunku community, Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. The agency said the suspect, Celina Ekeke, was arrested with 24 sacks of cann...
Ike Ekweremadu In Court, UK To Decide Whether To Try Them In Nigeria
Senator Ike Ekweremadu, a former Deputy Senate President of Nigeria, on Monday appeared before the Uxbridge Magistrate court in the UK over allegations of organ harvesting. As claimed by the Prosecutor, David Ukpo who alleged that he was coerced to d...
NBA, Obono-Obla Tackle Gov Ayade For Backing The Military’s Reprisal On Cross River Communities
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and former presidential aide, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, have condemned Governor Ben Ayade’s call to the Nigerian Army to sustain reprisal action on Nko and Onyedama communities in Cross River State, where its full mi...
