CRIME
EFCC Kicks Against Court Order Permitting Obiano To Travel Abroad
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has kicked against an interim ex parte order by the Awka Division of the Federal High Court presided over by Justice Hyeladzira Nganjiwa granting the forme...
EFCC Docks NOGASA Chair, Fatuyi Phillips For Alleged N43.5m Fraud In Lagos
The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on April 7, 2022, arraigned one Fatuyi Yemi Philips, Chairman, Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria, NOGA...
Gunmen Abduct Plateau Commissioner’s Wife, Daughter
Gunmen invaded the residence of Plateau State Commissioner of Environment, Usman Bamaiyi, in the wee hours of Saturday, abducting his wife and daughter. It’s unclear if the commissioner was at home ...
Gunmen Attack President Buhari’s Home State, Abduct Many
Several people have been reportedly abducted by gunmen suspected to be bandits in Danjanku village, Musawa Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State. ABN TV learned from residents that the bandits ...
Court Sentences Man To Death For Stealing Torchlight In Uyo
On Thursday, April 7, 2022, an Akwa Ibom State High Court in Ikot Ekpene condemned one Nsikak Joseph Udofia, age 31, to death for armed robbery and life imprisonment for rape in the state. The convict...
Over 30 Killed In Russian Rocket Strike At Railway Station In Ukraine
At least 39 people were killed and dozens wounded when rockets hit a train station in the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine. Donetsk regional governor said thousands of people trying to flee Russi...
Hoodlums Invade UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital, Brutalise Doctors, Nurses Over Patient’s Death
Hoodlums said to be graduates, invaded and attacked workers at the Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, on Wednesday over the death of a patient. The hospital’s Public Relations Officer, Ayodele Adeyemo, in a statement said the group invaded the accident and emergency unit of the facility and beat up doctors and nurses on duty after the death of the...
Hoodlums Attack Soldiers At Army Checkpoint In Abia, Set Patrol Vehicle Ablaze
Unknown hoodlums in the early hours of Friday attacked an army checkpoint located at Tonimas junction on Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway of Aba in Abia state, setting a patrol vehicle on fire. ABN ...
Court Strikes Out Abba Kyari’s Suit Against NDLEA
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, dismissed a fundamental enforcement rights suit filed by suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, against the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. Justice Inyang Ekwo dismissed the suit after counsel for the NDLEA, Joseph Sunday, prayed the court that the matter be struck out. When the matter was called, Cynthia Ikena, lawyer to...
Journalists Barred As Nnamdi Kanu’s Trial Set To Hold In Secret
Trial of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu may be tried in secret as Chief Judge of the Federal High Court (FHC) in Abuja, Justice John Tsoho, releases a new practice direction for the trial of terrorism suits before the Court, such as the case of Nnamdi Kanu. ABN TV reports that Justice Tsoho stated...
