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A Grade 1 Area Court in Karu, Abuja, has ordered a woman, Joy Alake, arraigned for stealing to sweep the court premises for two weeks as punishment for her crime. The 27-year-old was in court for stealing nine pieces of wrapper and four skirts worth N68,000 Read Also: Undergraduate, Others Docked For Armed Robbery, Cultism … Read more

A Kwara State High Court Sitting in Ilorin, on Wednesday, November 13, 2019, refused an oral application brought by a former member of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Muhammed Adebayo, seeking to terminate the criminal charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Read Also: Noise Pollution: LASG Reads Riot … Read more

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested two people for alleged drug trafficking in Yobe state. The suspects, arrested along Potiskum road, were on their way to Maiduguri, in Borno state. Read Also:APC Crisis: Convene NEC Or Resign- DG. Progressive Governors Forum Tells Oshiomole Officers intercepted one of the suspects with two bags Tramadol, … Read more

The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has attributed the successful progress Nigeria made on the Transparency International Corruption Index to the creation of EFCC. Read Also: Gratification: EFCC Arraigns Two Judicial Staff According to Magu, before the creation of EFCC, Nigeria was ranked 2nd most corrupt country in … Read more

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Kano Zonal Office on Tuesday, arraigned the duo of Ado Shehu and Ali Muhammad before Justice Amina A. Aliyu of the Kano State High Court on a three-count charge bordering on theft and receiving gratification. Read Also: Court Adjourns Dokpesi Case to January 2020 The complainant had alleged that … Read more

Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, November 12, 2019, adjourned till January 21-23, 2020 for continuation of hearing in the trial of the founder of Daar Communication Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi. Read Also: Be Good Ambassadors, EFCC Charges Corps Members Dokpesi is being prosecuted by the EFCC for his alleged … Read more

The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu on Tuesday charged Youth Corps members to be good ambassadors and to enlist as foot soldiers in the fight against corruption. Magu stated this during a sensitisation lecture on the ills of corruption and its consequences on the society at the National … Read more

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), appealed to Nigerian youths, particularly students, to distance themselves from criminal tendencies capable of disrupting their future endeavours. Mr. Isyaku Sharu, Head of the EFCC Zonal Office in Ilorin, appealed on Tuesday while addressing students at the University of Ilorin. Sharu said the call had become necessary following … Read more

Following the federal government’s suspension of fuel supply to areas within 20 kilometres to the nation’s land borders, residents of border communities in Katsina State are groaning. Reports revealed that the federal government’s order had triggered fuel scarcity and hike in the prices of petroleum products at Jibia and Kongolam border towns between Nigeria and … Read more

Ahead of the November 16 governorship election in Kogi State, the State’s Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology has declared Friday, Nov. 15, as a public holiday for all schools in the state. A statement signed by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr Eric Aina, directed all public and private schools to proceed on … Read more

Senate President, Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday decried excessive heat inside the Senate chambers caused by malfunctioning of the cooling system in the chambers. Lawan who made the observation during plenary, directed the Clerk to the Senate to ensure that the cooling system of the chambers is put right as soon as possible. “This chamber appears … Read more

The bill christened ‘National Commission for the Prohibition of Hate Speeches ( Estb. , etc) Bill 2019 ’ was sponsored by the Deputy Senate Whip Sabi Abdullahi. The bill has already passed first reading on the floor of the Senate after the introduction. Abdullahi had first introduced a similar bill that proposed death by hanging … Read more

Justice Silvanus Oriji of the FCT High Court, Apo has discharged and acquitted former Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Sunday Ehindero, and Commissioner of Police, Budget, John Obaniyi of an N16.4 million fraud charge. Ehindero and Obaniyi, a Commissioner of Police in charge of finance and budget at the Force headquarters, were arraigned on May 10, … Read more

The University of Nigeria (UNN), Nsukka, Enugu State, will host a conference on witchcraft between November 26 and November 27. The conference, which has the theme “Witchcraft: Meaning, factors and practices”, is convened by the Professor B.I.C Ijomah Centre for Policy and Research in UNN. Read Also: Rector Confirms Sack Of Lecturers Involved In Sex … Read more

Former chairman of Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited (PAN), Alhaji Sani Dauda, popularly known as ASD, and two others, have been arrested for allegedly giving out his daughter in marriage. Daily Trust reports that the arrest may have been at the instance of Nasiba’s (the daughter’s) estranged husband who may not have been happy with the … Read more