Crime Facts

Over 1,000 lawmakers, appointees get diplomatic passports

  The Nigeria Immigration Service issued at least 66,929 official and diplomatic passports to public office holders since the dawn of the electronic passport issuance in January 2007 till August 2023, The PUNCH has learned. This is as over 1,091 of the travel documents were issued to newly-elected and appointed public officials since President Bola […]

IG sets up panel to probe police cadet’s death

  The acting Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun has instituted a seven-man Panel of Inquiry, headed by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Abuja, Abiodun Alabi, with a mandate to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of a police cadet, Sulaiman Jika […]

NLC adamant, shuns meeting with labour minister over planned strike

  The national leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress has shunned the last-minute reconciliatory meeting convened by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong, to avert the two-day warning strike already declared by the labour centre. The PUNCH reports that only the leadership of the Trade Union Congress, led by its President, Festus Osifo, […]

Reps summon water resources minister over ‘illegal’ auction of river basin authorities’ assets

  A house of representatives ad hoc committee has summoned Joseph Utsev, minister of water resources and sanitation, over the alleged illegal auctioning of some government assets. The ad hoc committee investigating the “illegal” disposal of some government properties between 2010 and 2022 and non-remittance of the revenue realised from the sale of the assets […]

Nigeria Generated N1.49trn From VAT In 2023 H1 – NBS

  A new data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed that Nigeria generated N1.49 trillion as the aggregate revenue from Value-Added Tax (VAT) in the first half of 2023. The NBS on Monday stated that on the aggregate, VAT for the second quarter of 2023 was reported at N781.35 billion, showing a […]