•Ifeanyi Okowa The former governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, is still being held at the Port Harcourt, Rivers State office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. This makes it his second night in the custody of the anti-graft agency, reports The PUNCH. This is as the Delta State chapter of All Progressives Congress […]
•Bandits People of Ukwonyo community in the Ufia Kingdom of Ado Local Government Area in Benue State have raised concerns over ongoing attacks and harassment faced by women at the hands of armed invaders in their farmlands. The community members expressed worry yesterday, saying that the persistent threat has created fear among residents, maki...
The League of Patriotic Lawyers has urged the federal government to strengthen the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to enable it go after all former and serving public officials who embezzled public funds. It said Nigerians should support the agency in its quest to rid Nigeria of corruption, reports The Nation. Speaking with rep...
The Ebonyi State Police Command has arrested two men for allegedly stripping two teenage girls and flogging them over allegations concerning theft. The police vowed to prosecute the suspects to serve as a deterrent to others against taking the laws into their own hands, reports The PUNCH. The teenage girls in a video, which has […]
•Bandits The Chairman, Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State, Alhaji Isa Salihu Kalenjeni has raised the alarm over a foreign based armed religious group occupying a forest across five LGAs of the state, saying the group offers “youths N1million for membership.” The group locally known as Lakurawa was said to have migrated from Libya, ...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a Muslim cleric (Alfa), Alani Rafiu, to life imprisonment for raping a 14 –year- old girl inside a mosque. Justice Rahman Oshodi handed down the sentence yesterday after finding Rafiu guilty of the offence of child defilement, reports NAN. Rafiu was arraigned on October 28, [&h...
Sokoto State Government has raised the alarm over the emergence of another terrorist group in the state, identified as LAKURAWAS. The State deputy governor, Idris Gobir, made this known while receiving participants of Course 33 of the National Defence College, Abuja, who were on a study tour in the state, reports Vanguard. Gobir said the [&hel...
•Former Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a former Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, for alleged diversion of N1.3 trillion 13% derivation fund from the federation account between 2015 and 2023. An EFCC source confirmed the former governor’s arrest to our c...
•Onnoghen and Buhari The Court of Appeal in Abuja has discharged and acquitted a former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, from his conviction of false assets declaration by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) under former President Muhammadu Buhari. The conviction of Onnoghen was thrown out by the appellate court followin...
•Embattled Bobrisky The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has released controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, also known as Bobrisky, on bail. The embattled cross-dresser was stopped and removed from an Amsterdam-bound KLM flight at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos late Thursday night while attempting to leave th...

