Category: Crime
-
CSO, IPC Reacts As NBC Fines Arise Tv & Channels Television
Civil society organisations and the International Press Centre have kicked against the sanction imposed on Arise and Channels television stations by the National Broadcasting Commission for publicising a fake statement credited to the Independent National Electoral Commission. The statement said INEC was in talks with the United States over drug trafficking allegations made against the…
-
Youths Protest #EndEfcc In Ibadan
Some youths have accused personnel of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of extortion. The youths organised a protest against the EFCC on Thursday in Ibadan, Oyo State. The protest comes days after some youths held a similar protest in Warri, Delta State. It was gathered that the youths, who took the protest to the…
-
Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyer Acusses Malami Of Terrorism.
The Lead Counsel for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, has accused the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, of terrorism. Ejiofor, in a statement on Wednesday, said the AGF and his accomplices had flagrantly violated both Nigerian and international laws for the manner in which the extradition and rendition…
-
Police Arrest Kidnap Kingpin In Bayelsa.
The Bayelsa Police Command have arrested a suspected kidnap kingpin, John Ewa, who had been on the wanted list of the police in the state. It was learnt that the policemen trailed Ewa, who goes by the alias Lion, to Abuja, where they nabbed him on Saturday. The suspect, who flaunts his wealth on social…
-
South East Youths Condem Attack On Ifeanyi Ubah’s Convoy
Socio-political youth organisation in Igbo land, the Coalition of South-East Youth Leaders, has condemned the attack on the Chairman of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, by suspected hoodlums. According to the group, the attack on Senator Ubah, which took place at Enugwu Ukwu, in the Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State,…
-
Gunmen Abducts Plateau Council Boss
Chairman of Kanke Local Government Council of Plateau State, Henry Gotip, has been abducted by gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday. He was said to have been abducted at his residence at Kwang in Jos North Local Government Area of the state after a sporadic shooting by the gunmen to scare away the residents.…
-
Court Grants Ogun State, House Of Assembly Speaker
The Ogun State House of Assembly Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo and two others were on Tuesday remanded in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s custody by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State over alleged N2.475 billion money laundering. Justice Daniel Osiagor ordered that they should be remanded for one week in the EFCC’s custody,…
-
Court Dismiss Extradition Suit Against Abba Kyari
Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, rejected an application filed by the Federal Government to extradite the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, to the United States of America to face trial over his alleged involvement with a notorious internet fraudster, Ramon Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who delivered the…
-
Court Sentence NANS Official To One Year Jail Term
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has succeded in the conviction and sentencing of the Director of Logistics of the National Association of Nigerian Students Federal University, Oye-Ekiti Chapter, Adeyemi Israel Abiodun, to one-year imprisonment for internet-related fraud. The NANS leader is among 40 persons convicted on separate one-count before four judges of the Oyo…
-
Gunmen Invade Imo State, Kills One person
Panic at Ogbaku market on Owerri- Onitsha Road in Owerri, Imo State, on Tuesday as gunmen invaded the market and shot a motorcyclist dead. This happened while the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali, was in at the Government House Owerri to inaugurate the 12 Armoured Personnel Carriers procured by the state government to fight…