•Mele Kyari Mele Kyari, a former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), is currently at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Kyari, who had earlier been placed on watchlist, arrived at the anti-graft agency’s headquarters in Abuja at about 2:30pm today. Sources...
•South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol (R) South Korea’s disgraced ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol was detained for a second time today over his declaration of martial law and held in a solitary cell as investigators widened their insurrection probe. Yoon plunged South Korea into a political crisis when he sought to subvert civilian rule ...
A staff member of the Department of Land Administration of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) known as Mairiga Hassan Shahru, has reportedly been queried and subsequently arrested and detained for allegedly leaking some “classified documents”. The FCT Police Commissioner, Adewale Ajao has confirmed the arrest of Shahru, and in...
•Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Ukrainian border guards have prevented tens of thousands of military service-age men from illegally leaving the country since the start of Russia’s invasion, a spokesman for the border guard told our correspondent today. Under martial law, most Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 have been barred from leaving th...
•Junta leader, Ibrahim Traore Three Burkinabe journalists arrested over criticism of the junta have appeared in a video, saying they are at the front line to “cover the reality” of the battle against jihadist attacks. The government last week dissolved the Burkina Journalists’ Association (AJB), a day after police arrested its president, Guezo...
•Armed policemen A trigger-happy policeman in Delta State has been identified, arrested and detained for reportedly gunning down a 17-year-old boy, Emeka Odogwu, in Ozoro community, Isoko North Local Government Area of the state. The gory incident was said to have occurred on Saturday night when policemen stormed the area after having found fi...
•Khalid Aminu One of the participants of the August #EndBadGovernance nationwide protests has offered a harrowing narration of how operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) arrested him in Kano, detained and tortured him for over 60 days. Khalid Aminu, an engineer by profession, said he was picked up alongside other young demonstrat...
•Protesters waving Russian flags The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today that a group of Polish students detained in Nigeria have been released. The students were arrested earlier this month in Kano, a northern state in Nigeria, after being accused of raising Russian flags during anti-government protests. The protests, which beg...
•Presidential jets The management of a Chinese firm, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Company Limited, has said its top officials were unlawfully detained and brutalised by men of the Nigeria Police during its contractual disagreement with the Ogun State Government. The firm said the maltreatment compelled it to seek the seizure of Nige...
•Binance executive, Tigran Gambaryan The detained Binance Holdings Limited executive, Tigran Gambaryan, has attempted to escape from Kuje Correctional Facility. Investigations by our correspondent revealed how Mr Gambaryan who is currently remanded in Kuje Correctional Facility, applied for a new United States of America passport, under the pr...
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