•A fire outbreak A late-night fire has razed sections of the female hostel at Bayelsa Medical University (BMU), Yenagoa, destroying valuables and raising fresh concerns over repeated fire incidents allegedly linked to electrical faults in the institution. It was gathered that no life was lost in the incident. However, several students, who spo...
•Timipre Sylvia The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the interim forfeiture of nine properties linked to former Bayelsa State governor and minister of state for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylvia, to the federal government. Justice Obiora Egwuatu made the order after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s counsel, Oluwal...
Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has handed over properties and money recovered from a fake spiritualist and advance fee fraudster to a victim, Daniel Attiogbe, in Ibadan. Its spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement in Abuja today. Oyewale said the properties were recovered as proceeds of cr...
•Former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello and EFCC logo The Court of Appeal in Lagos has restored the interim forfeiture order obtained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to seize 14 properties allegedly linked to ex-Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello. Justice Yargata Nimpar who read the unanimous judgment which was delivere...
•Okengwu, Lagos-Calabar Highway and works minister Umahi A real estate investor, Stella Okengwu, has made a startling revelation about the corruption in the ongoing Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project. Speaking on Channels Television today, the Diaspora-based real estate practitioner alleged that top officials in the federal works ministry a...
The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has made available several properties for sale across key locations, including Lagos, Abuja, Oyo, Plateau, and Rivers states. This move is part of AMCON’s ongoing efforts to manage and resolve non-performing assets acquired from financial institutions. An advertorial published yesterday in Th...
•Wike and Kingibe Senator representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Ireti Kingibe, has said it is illegal for properties to be seized, revoked, or sealed solely on account of failure to pay ground rent. Reacting to the ongoing development in the capital city, the lawmaker warned FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, not to run foul of […]...
Top officials of the Federal Capital Territory Authority (FCTA) are embarking on an enforcement exercise to seal up over 4,700 properties owing to non-payment of ground rent. On March 18, 2025, the FCT Administration had lamented that over N6 billion had been lost as revenue due to non-compliance by some property owners to pay their […]
•Scene of the incident A small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in San Diego early this morning, sparking fires that engulfed about 15 homes and multiple vehicles. The incident occurred during dense fog, prompting emergency evacuations across several blocks, according to local authorities, reports The San-Diego Union Tribune. “We ...
•Erosion at Miami Beach after the sand was washed away during Tropical Cyclone Alfred on the Gold Coast yesterday Torrential rain from the remnants of Cyclone Alfred flooded swathes of Australia’s east coast on Monday, as workers battled to restore power to more than 190,000 homes and businesses. The weather system, which made landfall on [&he...

