The Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team has arrested 11 kidnap suspects in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The suspects include Anthony Pepple, who is also known as Urban Gorilla and a suspected member of Niger Delta Avenger, a militant group in the Niger Delta. The Commander of
An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court sitting in Isabo on Tuesday slammed a N250, 000 bails on a 22-year-old man, Sulaimon Ajo, charged with stealing domestic fowls valued at N62, 000. The Magistrate, Mrs Oriyomi Sofowora, who gave the ruling, also granted the accused two reliable sureties in like sum. The accused, who resides at Baseru Araromi in Abeokuta, […]
The suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir David Lawal, was on Tuesday quizzed by the three-man panel headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The panel was set up to investigate allegations of violations of law and due process made against Lawal in the award of contracts under the Presidential Initiative on […]
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, who was granted bail by a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday has been whisked away by operatives of Department of State Services, DSS, and the Nigerian Prisons Service. Kanu and the other three accused persons were taken away in a green prisons vehicle escorted by four other black hilux vans. […]
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday reiterated the Senate’s call for the Federal Government to fast-track access to the $300million malaria bond. The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Senate President, Yusuph Olaniyonu, said Saraki restated Senate’s position on the bond during the 2017 World Malaria Day workshop titled: “Push for Prevention.” According
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday withdrew its application seeking to stay the execution of a court order which unfroze the Skye Bank account of the wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience with a balance of $5.9m. A counsel for the EFCC, Rotimi Oyedepo, appeared before the Federal High Court in Lagos which […]










