…Abiodun, Uzodinma, Okorocha listed The Department of State Services (DSS) may have indicted the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole for alleged large scale corruption. SaharaReporters have listed names it confirmed to have been allegedly listed by the DSS report as paying or attempting to pay bribes, in millions or hundreds […]
The Kano State Government, Tuesday, banned street begging, threatening to deal with parents and guardians who flouted the new order. The government stated that the move was to actualize the free and compulsory primary and secondary schools education, and the integration of the Almajiri System into the policy. Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje announced the ban […]
The Director of Finance, Sokoto State Urban and Regional Planning Board, Ahmed Yahaya and two other staff of the Board have been arraigned over allegations of having sex with two minors in their offices. The suspects were charged to court by the Sokoto Zonal Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has condemned “the passing of a bill seeking to give leaders of federal and state legislatures immunity from prosecution for corruption.” Responding to the development, SERAP’s Deputy Director Kolawole Oluwadare said: “Providing immunity for presiding officers against crimes of corruption is tantamount to ripping up the constitution. It’s a […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Yola, Adamawa State has sentenced four persons including a woman to 160 years imprisonment on a multiple-count charge of conspiracy and possession of counterfeit banknotes. Hon. Justice Abdulazeez Anka, who handed down the sentences to the convicts in the case brought by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related […]
Newly appointed Chief Judge of the Boko Haram terror group, Muhammad Shuwa, has been killed in a precision raid by the air task force. This is just as the splinter group, Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP) camp has been plunged into confusion and disarray following intense infighting. Series of air raids and the merciless […]
The littoral states in the Gulf of Guinea Region, that is West Africa and its trading partners lost about $2.3billion to Maritime Crimes between 2016 and 2018, the Director General of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS), Prof. Mohammed Tawfiq Ladan has said. Ladan, stated this while speaking at the ninth Strategic Admiralty […]
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has warned prospective Corps Members with fake credentials to stay off its Orientation Camps across the country as the scheme gets set for the 2020 Batch ‘A’ Orientation Camp. It added that anyone caught, especially graduates from the Universities in West African sub-region with the intent to undermine the […]
Stakeholders, including child rights activists, sociologists, lawyers and clerics have identified the major factors behind the rising cases of incest in the country. Some of the stakeholders, who spoke with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) across the states, identified lack of traditional family values, moral decadence, broken homes, emotional imbalance, shift in family roles due […]
A coalition of civil society organizations operating under the platform of the Edo Civil Society Organizations (EDOCSO) has accused the Nigerian army of complicity in kidnapping and various acts of criminality in Edo state. According to a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the coalition, Osazee Edigin and obtained by Crimefacts.news, the group alleged thatthe […]
