•Cash bribe to a police officer by motorist A National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, survey report has shown that Nigerians paid N721 billion in cash bribes to public officials in 2023. The Survey report titled: “Corruption in Nigeria: Patterns and trends”, released yesterday, indicated that more than 95 per cent of all bribes Nigerians paid [&he...
•Gunmen Gunmen on Tuesday abducted a former Deputy Vice Chancellor of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti (EKSU), Professor Femi Olaofe, in his residence at Housing Estate, Ado- Ekiti, Ekiti State capital. Olaofe, a native of Are-Ekiti, Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government Area, is a Professor of Industrial Chemistry, who recently retired from the...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, has ordered a 30-year-old teacher, Josiah Alkali, to be remanded in a correctional facility for allegedly kissing and romancing four boys. Alkali was charged by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) with defilement on four separate charge sheets, reports Vanguard. The four bo...
•The suspects The Anambra State Police Command said it has identified the officers allegedly fingered in a viral video of telephone theft in a community in Otuocha Local Government Area of the state. In a video that circulated on social media yesterday, a resident of the area narrated how police officers from the Otuocha Police […]
A 28-year-old man, Uchenna Eziekwe, and his wife, Chinenye, have been arrested by the police in Lagos for allegedly attempting to sell their two-year-old baby. According to the police, the couple intended to use the proceeds from the sale of the baby to relocate to Canada, where they hoped to find a better life. They […]
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, today, raised fresh alarm over the alleged plans by terrorists to attack critical infrastructure in the country. Director Defence Media Operations, DMO, Major General Edward Buba who disclosed this to Defence Correspondents in Abuja at a bi-weekly briefing on the ongoing military operations in the various theater...
•Saleh Mamman A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered that a former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, be remanded in Kuje prison in Abuja pending the consideration of his bail application. Justice James Omotosho issued the order today after the court resumed Mamman’s arraignment on money laundering charge which was earlier stepped down by [&h...
•Saleh Mamman The arraignment of Mr Saleh Mamman, former Minister of Power under ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, was, today, stalled at a Federal High Court, Abuja, due to ill-health. Mamman, whose plea was fixed for this morning, collapsed outside the courtroom before the case was called, reports NAN. The former minister’s counsel, Femi Ate, S...
•A pregnant woman A suspected kidnapper, Auwalu Haruna, has been traced and arrested by the police from the Yobe State command in Kano State for allegedly impregnating his 20-year-old woman hostage. The spokesman of the police in Yobe, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, who disclosed this to journalists, said the suspect, a self-proclaimed marabout, alleg...
•Anamekwe Nwabuoku A former acting Accountant-General of the Federation, Anamekwe Nwabuoku, yesterday, pleaded with Justice James Omotoso of the Federal High Court in Abuja to give him more time to conclude the refund of the public funds allegedly looted by him and his co-defendant. Nwabuoku and his co-defendant, Felix Nweke, are facing 11 cou...
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