Crime Facts

Kalu’s Conviction: SERAP, CDHR hail judgment

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and some other civil society groups on Thursday lauded the 12-year prison sentence handed down to ex-Gov. Orji Kalu of Abia state, by a Federal High Court in Lagos. Kalu is currently a Senator. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Mohammed Idris convicted Kalu on […]

How secure is Nigeria’s cyberspace?

Often Nigerians are inundated with messages on their telephone sets and e-mails asking them to subscribe to goods and services. The recipients, especially public service workers, are encouraged to apply for loans from micro-credit outfits on very liberal conditions, including not providing securities for the facilities. Repayments for such loans, which can be obtained within […]

Educate children on the dangers of small arms – WAANSA

The first vice President, West African Action Network on Small Arms (WAANSA), Mr Dickson Orji, Wednesday stressed the need to educate children on problems associated with small arms. Orji said this in Abuja at a speak-out session organized by WAANSA in partnership with Adinya Arise Foundation for secondary school girls, as part of activities for […]

Germany expels two Russian Diplomats following Berlin Killing

Germany has expelled two Russian diplomats in response to what the German authorities described as Russia’s refusal to cooperate in a high-profile murder. German intelligence and law enforcement agencies said that the killing of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a 40-year-old former Chechen rebel commander, who was shot in the head from behind in Berlin’s Kleiner Tiergarten park […]

EFCC docks ‘Mama Boko Haram’, one other for alleged N66m fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, December 4, 2019 arraigned the duo of Aisha Alkali Wakil otherwise known as ‘Mama Boko Haram’  and Tahiru Saidu Daura before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on a three-count charge of conspiracy and cheating to the tune of N66million (Sixty-six million […]

Buhari unveils indigenous mine-resistant military vehicles

President Muhammadu Buhari, has inaugurated the first set of combat and light vehicles manufactured at the Nigerian Army Command Engineering Depot in partnership with Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) in Kaduna. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the vehicles were unveiled at the opening of the 2019 Chief of Army Staff Annual Conference […]

Go back and ‘unpad’ your budgets, ICPC charges MDAs

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is set to tackle the padding of personnel costs in government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). Crimefacts.news reports that the Commission has accordingly charged MDAs to go back and fix infractions and remove incriminating items in their budgets. Chairman of the Commission, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, […]