CRIME
Sales Rep Arraigned For Allegedly Stealing Goods Worth N1m
A 38-year-old sales representative, Kayode Oludoyi, was on Wednesday docked in an Iyaganku Magistrate's Court, Ibadan, for allegedly stealing Guinness products worth N1, 850,419.54. The police charged Oludoyi, whose residential address was not provid...
Police Vow To Deal With Skit, Movie Makers In Illegal Possession Of Uniforms
The Nigeria Police Force has expressed concern over what they call the incessant and unauthorised possession and use of Police uniforms and accoutrements by some individuals, movies and skit makers, as well as the illegal sale of Police materials and...
Amotekun Nabs 6 Over Cultism, Firearms In Ogun
At least six persons have been apprehended over housebreaking, cultism, and illegal possession of firearms by Amotekun in Ogun state. The state’s Commander of Amotekun, David Akinremi, made this known in Abeokuta on Wednesday. He said the trio of A...
BREAKING: Buhari Seeks Reps Approval To Freeze Accounts Of Money Launderers
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, sent in a Bill to the House of Representatives, seeking their passage to enable the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to freeze accounts allegedly holding proceeds of crime, and come hard on money launderers. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, read the president’s letter in plenary, with the instrument...
BREAKING: Court Revokes Maina’s Bail
A Federal High Court in Abuja has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina. Justice Okon Abang, in a ruling on Wednesday, revoked the bail earlier granted Maina, who is being tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged money laundering. The judge ordered that...
Buhari’s Former Aide Obono-Obla To Appear In Court Monday Over Fraud
The police will next week Monday arraign Mr Okoi Obono-Obla, a former Special Assistant on Prosecutions to President Muhammadu Buhari. Counsel for the ex-presidential aide, Paul Erokoro (SAN), told journalists in Abuja on Friday that the police planned to arraign his client before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Kwali, Abuja. This was shortly after Obono-Obla and two...
SARS Threw Me Off Three-Storey Building, Broke My Spine – Trader Tells Lagos Judicial Panel (Photos)
A trader, Ndukwe Ekekwe, Tuesday told the Lagos State Judicial Panel of enquiry and restitution for victims of SARS related abuses relived the harrowing details of how he broke his spine in 2018 when policemen threw him off a three-storey shopping complex at Alaba Market. Ndukwe, 34, said he was unlawfully arrested on February 16, taken to the Special Anti-Robbery...
We’re Making Efforts To Fish Out Rogue Police Officers – Buhari
The president spoke during a meeting with a delegation of the National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday. He said the effort is in compliance with the demands of #EndSARS protesters. For 13 days, youth under the #EndSARS campaign protested against police brutality and demanded police reform. Buhari said the voices of youth have been heard and...
Grant Me Bail Before I Lose My Leg, Maina Begs Court
Abdulrasheed Maina, former boss of defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), on Friday, told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that his leg might be amputated if not granted bail to have adequate medicare. Maina, through his Counsel, Sani Katu, SAN, told Justice Okon Abang at the resumed trial. Katu said his client was taken to University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada,...
Paris Club Refund: Why is Obinna Oriaku Afraid of Proving His Allegations? – Group
A former Commissioner of Finance in Abia State, Mr Obinna Oriaku has been urged to take his campaign of alleged mismanagement of the Paris Club Refund to Abia State beyond the media space and avail himself of the golden constitutional opportunity offered by the Abia State House of Assembly to present the needed facts on his allegations. This was the...
