•Prisons officials on parade The Nigerian Correctional Service (Prisons) has acknowledged significant challenges in managing the country’s 3,845 death row inmates, describing the current system as flawed and unsustainable. Assistant Controller General Cyrus Lekatile presented these concerns today during the third public hearing of the Independ...
•EFCC chairman, Ola Olukoyede The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has stated that Nigerian politicians have devised a new means to perpetuate corruption and evade anti-graft agencies by declaring assets they are yet to acquire before assuming office. Speaking during the launch of Virtual Tool on the Code of Conduct for Public O...
•Prison Sixteen inmates of the Medium security custodial centre, Keffi, Nasarawa State, have escaped from the facility after launching attacks on personnel of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) within the facility. It was gathered that five of the personnel sustained varying degrees of injuries following the attacks, reports The Nation. ...
•Governor Umar Radda and bandits Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State has joined Jibia, Batsari, and Danmusa LGAs in negotiating a peace deal with armed bandits to restore calm in the area. Before the latest development, only the three LGAs had such agreements, which allowed affected communities to cultivate their farms in relative pe...
•IGP Kayode Egbetokun and car tinted glass The Nigeria Police Force says it will give some Nigerians without a permit for their vehicles’ tinted-glass more time to obtain the document. The Force specifically said the crackdown on vehicles with the document, which were supposed to commence on Tuesday (today) would now begin on October 2, [&hell...
The Ogun Police Command says its operatives have arrested two men in connection with the unlawful possession of three human skulls in the Ijebu area of the state. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in a statement issued today in Abeokuta, the state capital. “On Monday, 11th August 2025, at about 1400hrs, [&...
•Scene of the protest Residents of the Barnawa area of the Kaduna metropolis yesterday staged a protest over the alleged killing of a young man by a joint security team, an incident that triggered anger and the closure of popular social spots in the neighbourhood. The Kaduna State Police Command, through its spokesman, DSP Mansir […]
•Tambuwal and EFCC operative Former Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, is in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged fraudulent cash withdrawals totalling N189 billion. The withdrawals are said to contravene the Money Laundering (Prevention & Prohibition) Act, 2022, reports Vanguard. Tambuwal rep...
An 18-year-old student, Moses Amarks, has been arrested by the police for staging his own abduction in a bid to extort ₦50 million from his mother. Amarks, a student of the College of Health, Kwamba, in Suleja Local Government Area of Niger State, allegedly conspired with a friend, Emmanuel Moses, to carry out the plot, […]
•EFCC operatives The African Democratic Congress has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of acting as a political tool for the ruling All Progressives Congress and targeting opposition figures through selective investigations. The party, in a statement today by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, cried out that...
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