Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has urged the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to work out modalities for imposing a ban on night travel across the country in view of safety hazards it posed. Commenting on recent incidence where 14 passengers of a lux...
The Edo State government on Wednesday dismissed two officials from its service over their complicity in an alleged kidnap case. The government, in a letter dated August 2, and signed by permanent secretary, Ministry of Environment and Public Utilities,...
For demanding and accepting bribe, operatives of the ICPC have arrested a Magistrate Court Judge in Enugu, Judge Joseph Sunday Edeh of the Enugu North Local Government Council Magistrate Court. Edeh was brought to the commission’s headquarters in...
Three former Oyo State Commissioners in the administration of Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala were yesterday quizzed by operatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in connection with an alleged N6.2billion frau...
Anglo-Dutch oil giant, Shell, has accepted responsibility for two devastating oil spills in Ogoniland in Rivers State. The Bodo fishing community in Ogoni, sued Shell in the United Kingdom (UK), alleging that oil spills in 2008 and 2009 had destroyed t...
A 26-year-old final year student of the University of Jos, Nnamdi Nwocha, yesterday appeared before a Kaswar-Nama Upper Area Court for allegedly raping a minor.Nnamdi, a resident of Zarama Close, Farin-gada, Jos, appeared before Malam Mustapha Hassan o...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), requesting it to urgently seek adequate damages and compensation from multinational corporations who have been found guilty...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has stated that the commission currently has at least 1,500 cases of graft allegations pending in various courts nationwide. The figure, our investigations revealed, covers cases inherited from Nuhu R...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday turned down a prayer made by one of the police officers accused of killing Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in 2009. Adamu Gado, a sergeant and one of the five accused per...
Babatunde Ogunjobi and Abdulgafar Oluwarinu Yusuf have been ordered by an Osogbo Magistrate court to pay N500, 000 as fine for stealing the mobile phone of Osun State governor, Mr. Ruaf Aregbesola. Delivering his ruling on the case, the presiding magis...
The cold war between the attorney-general and minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke and the chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Farida Waziri may have to do with the alleged undermining of Adoke’s office by some forces ...
A human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana has criticised the stance of President Goodluck Jonathan on the war against corruption across the country, even as he warned against short-circuiting the crusade at the instance of party politicking. Falana, in a ...
A middle-aged woman, Ms Uju Ibeh, believed to be the leader of a car theft syndicate, has been arrested by the police in the FCT. Parading the suspect before journalists, the police public relations officer (PPRO), Superintendent of Police (SP) Jimoh M...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday re-arraigned a former Plateau State Deputy Governor, Michael Boatmang, before a Federal High Court in Abuja. The EFCC had arraigned the accused on a 31-count charge of alleged corruption, m...
A 30-year-old commercial motocycle rider, Yusuf Aliyu of Rigachikwu in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State has been arrested by the Kaduna Police Command over the death of a rival lover, Yahaya Mohammed also known as Kaura, whom he allegedly st...