Crime Facts

RULAAC: Imo Police Command and the climate of impunity

. As group petitions CP, urges audit of personnel A civil society organisation, Rule of Law And Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has petitioned the Imo state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Isaac Akinmoyede demanding urgent sanitisation of the command in line with professional best practices. RULAAC catalogued some of the most recent atrocious conducts of Police […]

Court orders IGP to free CUPP spokesman

The Federal Capital Territory High Court has ordered the Inspector General of Police to immediately release the Spokesperson of the Coalition of United Political Parties, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere unconditionally as his arrest is illegal, unlawful and contemptuous of a valid and subsisting Court order. Ruling in a Motion brought by Chibuzor Ezike, Counsel to Ikenga […]

Insult as treason and other Nigerian Idi Amin Dada Stories

By Festus Adedayo Two pieces of literary works – Williams Stevenson’s thriller, Ninety Minutes at Entebbe and the film, The Last King of Scotland (2006) – plot the graph of the gradual emergence of despots. They were both x-rays of Ugandan despot, Idi Amin Dada of Uganda. Stevenson’s was an account of the June 27, […]

Imo lawmaker’s thugs batter journalist

.By Jennifer John A journalist and publisher of Newsfield Magazine/Newspapers, Mr Finian Chucks was on Thursday manhandled beaten up in Owerri, the Imo State capital by men said to be loyal to the member representing Obowo in Imo State House of Assembly, Hon. Kennedy Ibe. Our correspondent understands that Ibe and Chuks who was once […]

10 suspects in police net for flogging pastor in Ebonyi

No fewer than 10 persons are presently cooling their heels in police cells in Ebonyi state following the bizarre flogging of a young pastor, Oko Chukwu Obeni, a native of Ndukwe Amasiri Village in Afikpo North council area of Ebonyi State. Obeni was allegedly flogged 36 strokes of the cane while his elder brother bought-off […]