CRIME
Sowore’s Court Invasion: If I Were Buhari, I Will Sack DSS Boss, Says Barr. Ubani
A former second Vice President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Monday Ubani, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the Director-General of the Department of State Service (DSS), Yusuf Magaji Bichi. Ubani’s comments come on the heels of the invasion of the Federal High Court in Abuja by operatives of the commission while trying to rearrest the...
BREAKING: EFCC Secures Forfeiture Of N1.5bn Hospital Allegedly Linked To Ex Gov. Okorocha’s Aide In Owerri
The EFCC has secured another victory in its campaign against grand corruption in public service as Justice T.G Ringin of a Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, today, December 6, ordered the final forfeiture of Dews of Hope Hospital, a N1.5 Billion state-of-the-art 200-bed hospital, allegedly owned by an aide to a former governor of Imo State and serving...
BREAKING: DSS Attempts To Rearrest Sowore In Court
Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS on Friday morning allegedly disrupted the ongoing trial of activists Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare, attempting to rearrest the two men, who were only released from its detention on Thursday evening. The DSS operatives also chased away the presiding judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu while also brutalising a journalist with a popular television...
BREAKING!! Sowore, Bakare Regain Freedom After 126 Days In DSS Detention
Rights Activist and pro-democracy campaigner, Omoyele Sowore has regained freedom more than three months after he was arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS). Sowore was arrested and charged to court by the Nigerian government for planning a nationawide tagged #RevolutionNow. He was released on Thursday evening after the Federal High Court in Abuja ordered his release for the third...
Orji Kalu: Lagos High Court judgement, temporary setback, distraction – Lawyer
Following the ‘ill-advised conviction’ of former Governor of Abia and Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, of alleged N7.65bn fraud, a legal practitioner has declared that there was no cause for alarm. Speaking with ABN TV in a telephone interview shortly after the court ruling on Thursday afternoon, Victor Etie, Esq., faulted the judgement, insisting that it was unknown...
Court Sentences Senator Orji Kalu, To 12 Years In Jail…Court Winds Up Company
The Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted a former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, who was charged with N7.1bn fraud. The court found him and his co-defendants guilty of the entire 39 counts filed against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Justice Mohammed Idris sentenced Kalu to 12 years’ imprisonment while he ordered the winding up...
