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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, […]

Shock, as police allegedly raze Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer’s home

Following Monday’s clash that claimed the lives of two policemen and three members of the Indigenous People of Biafra at the home Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, a lawyer and counsel to the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, a team of rampaging policemen have allegedly destroyed and torched the home of the lawyer. Following the attack yesterday Ejiofor’s […]

FCT women demand swift prosecution of sexual predators

Women groups in the FCT, Monday, staged a walk around the metropolis, demanding speedy prosecution of perpetrators of rape and other sexual offences as a way of ending the menace in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the walk took the women groups to the office of the Inspector-General of Police […]

Congratulating Adeyemi amounts to congratulating an armed robber after a successful operation – Dino

Following the declaration of Chief Smart Adeyemi as the winner of the Kogi West senatorial election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Senator Dino Melaye who formally occupied the seat has declined to congratulate Adeyemi. Monitoring the activities of key players in the Kogi West Senatorial election, crimefacts.news can report that Dino Melaye took […]

We’re not recruiting ex-Boko Haram fighters into the military – DHQ

The Defence Headquarters(DHQ) has said that the stories of the de-radicalized Boko Haram ex-fighters being recruited into the Nigerian military is untrue. This was contained in press statement issued Sunday by the Acting Director of Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in Abuja. Nwachukwu urged the public to discountenance the rumours being peddled on the social […]