Public Safety: NAFDAC issues alert on contaminated raspberries from China
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Monday alerted the public on frozen raspberries contaminated with Norovirus from China. According to the public alert posted on…
Kogi: Thugs beat party chairman in the presence of Governor, IGP, as peace parley fails
The peace building efforts by stakeholders ahead of Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Kogi State has suffered a major set back, as political thugs allegedly belonging to the All Progressives Congress…
Edo: Police foil armed robbery attack on the Central Bank of Nigeria
Operatives of the Edo Police Command, Tuesday evening foiled an audacious attempt by armed robbers to raid the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in Benin the state capital. The robbers…
How ICPC is ridding corruption in constituency projects delivery
The birth of the Fourth Republic in Nigeria in 1999 pushed forward the ever increasing need for government to be closer to the people. It also opened up the door…
#FreeSowore Protest: DSS batter journalist, others
Richard Oludare, a journalist with The Guardian newspaper was Tuesday brutally attacked and beaten to stupor by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS). Oludare who had come to…
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- Financial Crime
- November 11, 2019
- 376 views
Ex-PPMC boss, Haruna Momoh to forfeit N2.4bn, properties to FG, says ICPC
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has started moves to recover N2.4 billion and some landed properties, alleged to have been illegally acquired and linked to…
- Financial Crime
- November 11, 2019
- 392 views
Lawyer docked for alleged N200m scam, gets bail for N100m
The Enugu Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned a lawyer, Nwabufo Richard Obienu and his company, Forric Nigeria Limited before Justice B.G Diepri of a…
Gov. Bello’s thugs behind the burning of SDP secretariat, SDP alleges
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) Secretariat in Lokoja has been burnt down by suspected thugs in the early hours of Monday. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Hakeem Busari who…
- Financial Crime
- November 10, 2019
- 381 views
Activist to FG: Check criminal activities of EFCC, police in Imo
A civil rights activist and president, Association for Good Governance, Barr. Justice Uhuegbu has called on the federal government to quckly intervene in the alleged unbridled criminal activities of the…
- Analysis/Features
- November 10, 2019
- 424 views
Please, trash Operation Positive Identification idea
Last week, I reminded you, here, that Nigeria is a land of the absurd like no other. I might not get to the yardstick used in arriving at this, especially…
- Analysis/Features
- November 10, 2019
- 337 views
Corruption, mismanagement leave Jigawa’s health sector in tatters
In spite yearly budgetary allocation to the health sector in Jigawa, especially for the upgrade of primary healthcare centres, many of the health facilities are in terrible state of decay.…
- Financial Crime
- November 9, 2019
- 353 views
CCB, AGF may block bank accounts of 200 public officers
Following a joint investigation by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), no fewer than 200 bank accounts belonging to…
- Sex Crimes
- November 9, 2019
- 373 views
Police nab 70-year old elder, 50-year old man, over rape of a minor
Two elderly men aged 70 and 50 are presently cooling their heels in Police custody in Kebbi state over the alleged rape of an 11-year-old primary school pupil in Gwandu…
Nigeria won’t be dumping ground for any country – FG
The Federal Government Strategic Communication Team on border closure has alleged that a well-orchestrated international conspiracy against Nigeria was major the reason the country has become a dumping ground for…
Sins of the Terminator, Bosco Ntaganda, as he bags 30 years
The warlord responsible for mass murder, rape and abduction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been sent to prison for 30 years – the longest sentence the International…