•Prof. Joash Amupitan The newly confirmed Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Joash Amupitan, has pledged to conduct a comprehensive audit of the INEC Results Viewing (IReV) portal to identify and resolve the technical glitches that undermined public confidence during the 2023 general elections. Speaking dur...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives today adopted an urgent motion calling for an immediate investigation into what it described as arbitrary, excessive, and unexplained bank charges imposed on customers by commercial banks across the country. The motion, titled “Urgent Need to Curb Arbitrary Bank Charges and Protect Nigeria...
The Nigerian Army has commenced an investigation into the circumstances that led a soldier, Lance Corporal Akinyele Femi, serving at 221 Battalion, Wawa Cantonment, Niger State, to kill his wife and commit suicide on October 11. Capt. Stephen Nwankwo, the Acting Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 22 Armoured Brigade, Ilorin, explained ...
•Kenyan Police Kenyan officers are facing another probe over the death of a man in custody, the country’s police watchdog said today, barely three months after a similar case sparked protests. The East African nation faces long-standing allegations of police brutality, with the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) saying in June tha...
•Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.) The immediate past Rivers State Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retd.), and the Rivers State House of Assembly may be gearing up for a showdown following the latter’s decision to probe the state’s expenditure over the last few months under the former. Ibas ceased to be the administrator of the [&h...
The Lagos Police Command has launched investigation into a viral video allegedly showing students of Excel College, Ejigbo, engaging in smoking, drinking, and dancing at the school’s boys hostel. The incident, which reportedly occurred in April 2025 but only surfaced online recently, has sparked public outrage and condemnation, reports The Nat...
•IGP Egbetokun and Nigerian lawyers Nigerian lawyers under the aegis of the Nigerian Bar Association, Calabar Branch, have called for a transparent and public investigation into the alleged extrajudicial killing of 22-year-old Moses Mba by policemen attached to the former residence of the Governor of Cross River State, Bassey Otu. In a letter ...
•EFCC logo and Kyari The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has directed the immediate past Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, to report at its Abuja headquarters daily as the commission prepares to arraign him in court soon. Also expected to be charged by the commissio...
•JAMB candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has placed 6,458 admission seekers under investigation for alleged involvement in technology-enabled examination malpractice during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Today in Abuja, JAMB inaugurated a 23-member Special Committee on Examination Infrac...
•EFCC logo and dollar notes The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has begun investigating one Duru Ikechukwu Damian, who was arrested by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) for allegedly failing to declare the sum of $59,000 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. This was made known v...
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