Armed men suspected to be kidnappers have killed two commuters and kidnapped five others along the Ifon-Owo Highway in Ondo State. Channels Television gathered that the driver of the commercial vehicle and a female passenger were shot dead at the scene of the incident on Friday evening. Five other passengers, including a Corps member, were…
The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday, July 19, 2024 arraigned one Rufus John Isip, a self-acclaimed forex broker before Justice C. S. Onah of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Isip was arraigned alongside his company, ITM-IT Resources Limited on an eight-count charge…
Nigerian troops deployed in the south-south region of the country to combating crude oil theft have in the last week arrested 20 perpetrators of oil theft and denied oil thieves an estimated sum of N744,153,900. According to Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, the troops have been proactive in their operations. “During…
Justice O. J. Enobie of the FCT High Court, sitting in Jabi, Abuja has convicted and sentenced the director of Asher Trust Investment Limited and Fifteen Network Limited, Daniel Ungbo Silas to five years imprisonment for fraud. Silas and his companies were prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on two-count charges, bordering…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned three staff members of Ekiti State Teaching Hospital in connection with forgery and deceits. The three-staff members, Mr. Fatuki Adebayo Paul, Mr. Babalola Idris Adebayo, and Mr. Afolayan David Ayodele. The commission, in a charge number: HAD/02ICPC/2024 arraigned the three accused on a…
The trial of Ali Bello and Dauda Sulaiman before Justice J. K. Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, continued on Monday, July 15, 2024, with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presenting its seventh Prosecution Witness, PW7. The EFCC is prosecuting Ali Bello and Dauda Sulaiman on a 10-count charge bordering on money…
Just at press time the two Kaduna based journalists and the family members kidnapped last week regained their freedom. It is therefore, in light of the plight of the poor journalists that Korede Abdullah focused this special report, even as the spate of kidnapping for ransom increase Kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria has assumed a…
It was a tumultuous moment of joy for the well-wishers of Agba Jalingo as a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, July 8 discharged and acquitted the Nigerian publisher of Cybercrime on the grounds that the prosecution had failed to prove its case. Jalingo who is a popular social critic, activist and journalist and…
The June 29 bomb attacks in Gwazo, Borno state, in NorthEast, Nigeria seems to bring back memories of the dark days of suicide bombers, after years of reprieve. The incident, thus, raises the question as to whether suicide bombers have returned to Nigeria. John Nwokocha writes. On Saturday, June 29, a shattering sound of…
The Nigerian troops engaged in various fighting operations against terrorism and criminality in the country have neutralised 187 and arrested 183 persons. The feat was recorded in one week, according to the Defence authorities which briefed journalists on Thursday, in Abuja on the successes of the Armed Forces in the war against terrorists. “During the…
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