•US President Donald Trump The administration of President Donald Trump will move to revoke the citizenship of naturalised Americans found to have committed fraud during the immigration process, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has said. Speaking in an interview with CBS News correspondent Camilo Montoya-Galvez, Blanche defended the admini...
•Ms Aisha Achimugu The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered final forfeiture of the sum of $13 million that was linked to a Lagos socialite, Ms Aisha Achimugu and her company, Oceangate Engineering Oil & Gas Limited. The court, in a judgment delivered by Justice Emeka Nwite, held that the Economic and […]
•Nigerian soldiers A 27-year-old fake soldier has been arrested by military police for defrauding several unsuspecting Lagos residents of their money and goods. The suspect, Kolawole Yusuf, was handed over to the police by the Provost Unit of the Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre (NAFRC), Oshodi, yesterday, where many of his victims id...
•Convicted former prime minister of Malaysia Najib Razak A Malaysian judge sentenced former Prime Minister Najib Razak to 15 more years in jail on Friday after convicting him of abuse of power and money laundering in a sovereign wealth fund graft scandal. Najib was also fined 11.4 billion ringgit ($2.8 billion) for his role in […]
•Kenya police At least three Nigerians have been arrested in the Mwaliko Estate, Mwea Town, Kenya, on allegations of cyber fraud. A report by Tuko News, a Kenyan digital news platform, revealed that the suspects were apprehended by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations on Wednesday. The arrested individuals have been identified as Peter C...
Justice Benjamin Lawan Manji of the Adamawa State High Court, Adamawa State, has convicted and sentenced the Managing Director, Bonghe Micro Finance Bank, Grace Karka, to five years imprisonment over alleged fraud. Karka was prosecuted on two-count charges bordering on criminal conspiracy and cheating to the tune of ₦32 million by the Gombe Zo...
•Titus Alagba The Continental Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Africa, Titus Alagba, speaks about the challenges facing Nigerians living across African countries, reports Saturday PUNCH. Excerpts: What role do the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation play in advancing the collective interests of Nigerians overseas? The main obj...
•Letitia James New York Attorney General Letitia James, who successfully prosecuted President Donald Trump, was indicted yesterday. The indictment was handed down by a federal grand jury in Virginia, where charges were also recently brought against another Trump foe, former FBI director James Comey. According to CNN and other US media outlets,...
•Nigerian pilgrims and EFCC operative Two senior officials of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) are in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged fraud linked to the 2025 Hajj exercise. Multiple sources within the EFCC, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed the arrests, reports N...
•INEC chairman Prof Mahmood Yakubu and APC, PDP, NNPP logos Disputes trailed Saturday’s by-elections across several states yesterday, as the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna, and the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in Kano rejected results, alleging vote-buying, voter intimidation, and coll...

