A former Chairman of the Special Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Okoi Obono-Obla, has been declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). The ICPC said it took the action due to Obono-Obla’s “repeated failure to appear before it to answer questions bordering on allegations of […]
A journalist whose undercover stories exposed the depth of corruption in Nigerian police cells and prison may be arrested by the Nigerian authorities.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested seven of its Operatives over an alleged plot to ferry the detained former Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, from custody.
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday remanded two British nationals, James Richard Nolan and Adam Quinn in prison custody pending the determination of their bail application in a charge of complicity in the controversial $9.6 billion arbitral award to Process and Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID) by a United Kingdom commercial court.
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to extend its border closure to foreign herdsmen who allegedly have the runs of the country’s borders and access Nigerian territories with arms to attack Nigerian communities including Benue.
Traders in Onitsha have blamed the level of casualties in the tanker fire incident on neglect by both the state and federal governments insisting that there were no safety and fire fighting gadgets put in place for rapid response in the case of emergency They further lamented that a town like Onitsha should have had […]
A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin yesterday sentenced a man, Mr. David Ogundele to death by hanging for killing an MTN worker, Abiola Tosin Ashinwo.
he Anambra state government may have sacked the state fire officer, Mr Martin Agbili.
Announcing his removal and other sweeping changes and restructuring within the Fire department, the state Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Chief C-Don Adinuba said that Air Vice Marshal Ben Chiobi has been appointed as the new boss of the agency.
Horror greeted Onitsha commercial city yesterday when a tanker carrying petrol lost control at Upper Iweka which resulted in an inferno that led to the death of at least four persons.
The defence counsel to Fred Ajudua, a Lagos socialite accused of defrauding a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi (rtd), on Wednesday, raised probing questions on the source of the $8.4 million that Ajudua allegedly collected from Bamaiyi. Addressing an Ikeja High Court, Ajudua’s lawyer, Mr Olalekan Ojo (SAN), disputed Bamaiyi’s claims on […]
