In line with international practices, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has stopped arbitrary seizure of international passports of suspects under investigation. It directed its entire staff to exercise discretion in demanding suspects’ passports. It also directed its staff to ask for reasonable and practicable bail conditions from suspects and their sureties. According […]
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Wednesday sentenced a bricklayer, Gabriel Awaye to two life sentences for defiling a 13-year-old girl in his room. Delivering judgment, Justice Abiola Soladoye, held that the prosecution proved the ingredients of the two counts charge of defilement and sexual assault against Awaye Soladoye said that […]
Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Abak has sentenced a 59-year-old man and father of seven, Pius Udo Ben to death by hanging for kidnapping a four-year-old boy, who has not been found till today. Udo Ben, a native of Ikot Use Ekong in Eket Local Government Area was convicted yesterday by the […]
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nysome Wike, has said that no one can take over his political structure and that he can fight back against anyone fighting him unjustly. Wike stated this on Wednesday while welcoming governors elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in his office. […]
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday in Abuja urged members of his cabinet to work assiduously towards achieving the mandate of their ministries or be ready to leave the government. Tinubu stated this in his address at the three-day 2023 Cabinet Retreat for Ministers, Presidential Aides, Permanent Secretaries and Top government functionaries, with the theme: […]
Internet and phone networks were down across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the Palestinian telecommunications agency said, in the second such blackout in the besieged territory in less than a week. “To our good people in the beloved country, we are sorry to announce that communications and internet services have been completely cut off […]
A Gambian court has sentenced a soldier to 12 years in prison for plotting a coup in the West African country which has restored democracy after 22 years of dictatorship. The court found lance corporal Sanna Fadera guilty of treason on Tuesday, according to a judgement seen by AFP on Wednesday. While the region […]
Hamas said Wednesday that seven hostages from its October 7 attacks, including three foreign passport holders, were killed in Israel’s bombing of Gaza’s largest refugee camp. Dozens of bodies were seen on Tuesday at the Jabalia camp where Israel said it killed a Hamas military commander in a strike on a tunnel complex. […]
Two suspected thugs have been set ablaze by a mob near Sokoto Road, Main Market in Onitsha, Anambra State. It was gathered that the incident happened around 3.30 p.m. on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses in the area said the mob first lynched the suspects before setting them on fire. “The tricycle operator had dropped a passenger […]
Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, on Wednesday, stormed the Ibadan Zonal Command of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan, to protest the arrest of their colleagues by operatives of the anti-graft agency. The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the students, who came in three Coaster buses and three Hummer buses, were said […]
