Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has confirmed the suspicion that her mother, Professor Kanene Okonjo, was kidnapped by those who wanted to get at her over the contentious issue of unpaid fuel subsidy claims. Okonjo-Iweala, who expressed gr...
The Lagos State Police command has arrested 14 suspected notorious armed robbers during exchange of gun duel with the policemen in the last one month. Briefing newsmen while parading the suspects at the command headquarters, Ikeja on Friday, commission...
Police in Delta said that kidnapped Prof. Kamene Okonjo, who was freed by her abductors on Friday, was held in a suspected hideout in Kwale, Ndokwa West Local Government Area. Delta Commissioner of Police, Mr Ikechukwu Aduba, said this on Friday while ...
Some unidentified gunmen on Friday shot dead another member of Kano State House of Assembly, Alhaji Danladi Kademi. The lawmaker was killed at Hotoro by Ring Road on the outskirt of Kano metropolis. The Public Relations Officer of the State Police Comm...
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said on Friday it arrested 30 alien herbal drug hawkers in Dutse, the Jigawa capital. The Director of the agency in the state, Mr Kenneth Azikwe, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NA...
Military authorities said yesterday that soldiers had arrested 63 people in Delta State during raids aimed at finding the finance minister’s 82-year-old mother, Prof Kanene Okonjo, who was kidnapped from her home on Sunday. It is not yet known wh...
The Senate Joint Committee investigating alleged mismanagement of pension fund, yesterday, ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, to arrest the chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina, over his ref...
The State Security Service (SSS) told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, that Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume’s call log, showed that he communicated with Mohammed Konduga (a convict) 73 times, in a month. The senator who is representin...
Following the escape from arrest, of the former Kogi State governor, Abubakar Audu, by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on December 11, 2012, the Commission has concluded plans to declare him wanted. The former governor...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned a 34-year-old businessman, Tony Ajiboye, before the Lagos High Court in Ikeja for alleged N6 million fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ajiboye who resides at No....
Charles Okah, the elder brother of Henry Okah, the alleged mastermind of the 2010 Independence Day bombing in Abuja, has alleged that the State Security Service (SSS) tried to force him to implicate a former military head of state, Gen. Ibrahim Badamos...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday arraigned a Lagos-based transporter, Kafilu Baba, before a Lagos High Court in Ikeja over alleged N7 million fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Baba was arraigned bef...
Ejike Mbogu, a member of a deadly gang of six that has been terrorizing Lagos and Ogun States, has told the police how they wasted 10 policemen who dared to stand in their way. Ejike who is the number two man in the gang, spoke on behalf of other membe...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it is yet to arrest the Chairman of Bi-Courtney Limited, Dr Wale Babalakin (SAN) as the latter is still on admission at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos. A credible ...
A 20-year-old man, Matthew Iroko, was on Thursday sentenced to two years in prison by an Abeokuta Magistrates' Court for stealing a chicken, valued at N1,000. The sentence, followed a plea of guilty by Iroko, after he was arraig...