•Precious Uzondu The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today, Wednesday, February 5, 2025, arraigned Precious Uzondu on a two-count charge bordering on alleged refusal to accept naira as a legal tender before Justice A.O. Owoeye of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. One of the counts reads: “That you, Precious Chimao...
•Oba Abdulsemiu Ogunjobi The suspended traditional ruler of Orile Ifo, Oba Abdulsemiu Ogunjobi, has been remanded in a correctional centre in Ilaro, Ogun State, following his arraignment before the Ifo Magistrate Court. The monarch, accused of assault, was denied immediate release after failing to meet the bail conditions set by the court, rep...
•United States Customs and Border Protection officers A prison riot left seven people dead in a Mexican state grappling with rising criminal violence, authorities said yesterday. The public prosecutor’s office announced an investigation into the incident in Villahermosa, the capital of southeastern Tabasco state, where a prison riot in Decembe...
•Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State Barely eight days after being granted pardon by Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, a former inmate, Sunday Omisakin, has been remanded in the Ilesa Correctional Facility for allegedly breaking into a house to steal a television. Omisakin, who was listed as number 8 on the governor’s prerogative of mer...
•Ex-Governor Nasir El-Rufai The Kaduna State High Court has ordered the remand of Alhaji Bashir Sa’idu, former Chief of Staff to ex-Governor Nasir El-Rufai, in a correctional facility as the court adjourned his bail application hearing to Thursday, January 23, 2025. Sa’idu, who also served as Commissioner for Finance, is facing a 10-count char...
•Nasiru El-Rufai Alhaji Muhammad Bashir Sa’idu, former Chief of Staff to Malam Nasiru El-Rufai, the immediate past Governor of Kaduna State, is to remain in prison custody after a state high court denied him bail in the money laundering case filed against him. Recall that the court had adjourned the ruling on a bail application […]
•Late Jimmy Carter and Olusegun Obasanjo A former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo has paid tribute to the late American President Jimmy Carter, recalling how the former US leader visited Nigeria to plead for his release during the reign of military junta leader Sani Abacha. Obasanjo spoke yesterday at a memorial service in honour of Cart...
Indications have emerged that the documents for the release of convicted chicken thief, Segun Olowookere, and his collaborator, Sunday Morakinyo, who were recently pardoned by the Osun State governor, Ademola Adeleke, would be perfected tomorrow. This, it was gathered, would allow the duo to return to the hometown in Okuku the same day or Tues...
•Gene Spector A Russian court today sentenced a US man to 15 years in a penal colony for “espionage”, Russian news agencies reported. Russia has detained and sentenced a number of US citizens and dual-nationals in recent years, some of whom have been freed in prisoner exchanges. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was convicted [&hel...
•Paul Pogba and jailed brother Mathias A Paris court today sentenced a brother of France midfielder Paul Pogba to a three-year prison term, with two years suspended, after convicting him in a high-profile extortion case. Mathias Pogba will be able to serve his one-year sentence with an electronic bracelet rather than behind bars, reports AFP. ...
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