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  • Court Discharges, Acquits Bauchi Gov’s Son, Shamsudeen Bala of N1.1bn Fraud

    . Court Discharges, Acquits Bauchi Gov’s Son, Shamsudeen Bala of N1.1bn Fraud

     Shamsudeen Bala, the son of Bauchi Governor Bala Mohammed, was cleared of the N1.1 billion fraud charge by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had filed a 20-count charge against Bala that appeared to be related to money laundering.However, the trial judge, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, partially
  • Just In: Court Acquits Diezani’s Ally Of $1.6bn Fraud

    . Just In: Court Acquits Diezani’s Ally Of $1.6bn Fraud

     The Chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited, Jide Omokore has been acquitted of fraud allegations by the Federal High Court in Abuja. Omokore, who is an ally of former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, was initially arraigned in 2016 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He was arraigned alongside Vict
  • NNPP Raises N511M For Kwankwaso, Others Campaign In Kano

    . NNPP Raises N511M For Kwankwaso, Others Campaign In Kano

     The Kano State chapter of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has raised the sum of N511 million, for its campaigns and other election logistics in the forthcoming polls. The Chief Spokesperson of the NNPP Campaign Council, Sanusi Bature Tofa, in a statement on Monday, shortly after the party’s fundraising dinner held on Sunday night in Kano sa
  • Tension As Ogun Youths Attack Banks As Protests Escalate (Photos)

    . Tension As Ogun Youths Attack Banks As Protests Escalate (Photos)

     There was palpable tension as aggrieved youths staged a violent protest in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital. The protest reportedly started at Asero, Abeokuta, on Tuesday,  by some customers of GTBank over their inability to get new naira notes from the bank. The protesters who made bonfires on the roads blocked the road that leads to Adatan
  • Rivers Court Remands Atiku Supporters In Prison Till March 22

    . Rivers Court Remands Atiku Supporters In Prison Till March 22

     Supporters of Atiku Abubakar have been remanded in prison until March 22, 2023 for bail consideration. The order was given by a Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The court remanded over 20 persons arrested in connection with a meeting by members of the Atiku Support Organisation in the state correctional centre.
  • New Naira: Buhari’s Meeting With Governors, Others Cancelled

    . New Naira: Buhari’s Meeting With Governors, Others Cancelled

     A meeting scheduled for Tuesday between President Muhammadu Buhari and state governors has been cancelled. The meeting was supposed to hold on Tuesday. A senior Presidency source who spoke with Punch late Monday revealed that Buhari would meet the governors to discuss, among other things, the nationwide crisis trailing the Central Bank of Nigeria�
  • IPMAN Directs Members To Suspend Operations, Shut Filling Stations

    . IPMAN Directs Members To Suspend Operations, Shut Filling Stations

     All members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria have been directed to suspend all operations across the country. Punch reported that the order was given in a statement signed on Tuesday by chairman of the association, Mohammed Kuluwu. The marketers were also ordered to suspend payment of ordering products from source unti
  • FG Reveals Those Restricting Buhari From Ending Cash Crunch

    . FG Reveals Those Restricting Buhari From Ending Cash Crunch

     The Buhari-led federal government has pointed fingers at some opposition parties for legally restricting President Muhammadu Buhari from giving relief to Nigerians going through hardship resulting from the scarcity of the new naira notes. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made the remark at the 23rd edition of President
  • UK Prosecutors Accuse Ekweremadu Of Attempting To Buy Kidney For £7,000

    . UK Prosecutors Accuse Ekweremadu Of Attempting To Buy Kidney For £7,000

     Prosecutors in the United Kingdom have told a court that Nigerian senator and his wife plotted to harvest kidney from a poor street trader for their daughter in exchange for up to £7,000. The court also heard that they promised the poor boy a better life. The report further revealed that Ike and Beatrice Ekweremadu, their 25-year-old daughter Son
  • Nigerian Man, Charles Ofodile Caught With 55grams of Hard Drugs in India

    . Nigerian Man, Charles Ofodile Caught With 55grams of Hard Drugs in India

     Kozhikobe police in Kerala, India has arrested a Nigerian man for alleged drug trafficking and seized 55 grams of MDMA from his possession. The Nigerian identified as Charles Ofodile was apprehended from Bengaluru, Karnataka and brought to Kozhikode on Sunday, February 5, 2023. Police said that the suspect was trafficking banned drugs to Kerala
  • Abuja Court Bars CBN, Buhari, Others From Shifting February 10th Naira Swap Deadline

    . Abuja Court Bars CBN, Buhari, Others From Shifting February 10th Naira Swap Deadline

     Justice Eleoje Enenche of a High Court at the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja today February 6, issued an order restraining the Federal Government, President Buhari, CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, and 27 listed commercial banks from suspending, stopping, extending or interfering with the currency redesignation terminal date of February 10 or is
  • BREAKING! Court Orders Immediate Imprisonment Of EFCC Chairman, AbdulRasheed Bawa

    . BREAKING! Court Orders Immediate Imprisonment Of EFCC Chairman, AbdulRasheed Bawa

     The IGP has been ordered by the Kogi State High Court to hold EFCC Chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa in Kuje Prison for 14 days.Ali Bello has brought the head of the anti-graft agency before the court over the claim that he was unlawfully arrested and held by the EFCC, and it was claimed that Bawa defied the court order asking him to submit an applicatio
  • APGA Senatorial Candidate Declares Support For Peter Obi

    . APGA Senatorial Candidate Declares Support For Peter Obi

     A Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Honourable Dozie Nwankwo has endorsed Peter Obi, the Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party. According to him, he will help Obi to actualise his quest to become the next President of Nigeria. Going back memory lane, he explained it was Peter Obi with Late Dora Akunyili that p
  • Rivers Govt Opens Up On Arrest Of 30 Members Of Atiku Campaign Team

    . Rivers Govt Opens Up On Arrest Of 30 Members Of Atiku Campaign Team

     The government of Rivers state has debunked reports that it was behind the arrest of 30 members of Atiku Abubakar’s campaign organization in the state's capital, Port Harcourt. Atiku, presidential flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Rivers governor, have been in a battle of words since the party’s primary election. Re
  • Court Strikes Out N2.9bn EFCC Suit Against Okorocha

    . Court Strikes Out N2.9bn EFCC Suit Against Okorocha

     A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, discharged former Governor of Imo State, Sen. Rochas Okorocha, of N2.9 billion fraud charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, struck out the EFCC’s suit for being in contravention of Section 105 (3) of the Administration of Crimi
  • Transporters Threaten To Occupy NNPL Headquarters, Tells Buhari to Sack Mele Abba Kyari

    . Transporters Threaten To Occupy NNPL Headquarters, Tells Buhari to Sack Mele Abba Kyari

     Some transport groups have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the GMD of Nigeria National Petroleum Limited, Mele Abba Kyari and the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipreye Sylva over the lingering fuel crisis in the country. This was made public on Monaday in a communique issued in Lagos after a one-day meeting of various association
  • APC Announces Indefinite Postponement Of Campaign Rally In Oyo

    . APC Announces Indefinite Postponement Of Campaign Rally In Oyo

     Due to the protest rocking Oyo state over the scarcity of the new naira notes, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has postponed its presidential campaign in the state. The party made this announcement on Monday. Dailypost reports that the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu had been billed to visit Ibadan on Tuesday in continuati
  • Just In: Panic As Nigerian Air Force Jet Crash-lands In Lagos Airport

    . Just In: Panic As Nigerian Air Force Jet Crash-lands In Lagos Airport

    A Nigerian Air Force jet has reportedly crashed landed in Lagos According to Sahara Reporters, passengers onboard the jet panicked on Monday as the aircraft crash-landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Runway 18R. SaharaReporters learnt there were six people on board and that there were no casualties. “Airforce jet crash
  • Just In: Parties Threaten To Boycott 2023 Election If CBN Shifts New Naira Deadline

    . Just In: Parties Threaten To Boycott 2023 Election If CBN Shifts New Naira Deadline

     The federal government has been warned that any attempt to extend the date for naira swap will result in the boycott of the 2023 presidential election. Punch reported that thirteen political parties out of the 18 political parties in Nigeria on Monday issued the threat. The parties say they will withdraw from participating in the 2023 general elec
  • Kaduna Residents Kidnapped On Christmas Day Regain Freedom After Ransom Payment

    . Kaduna Residents Kidnapped On Christmas Day Regain Freedom After Ransom Payment

    Gunmen have released residents abducted from Angwan Aku community in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, after weeks in captivity. Recall that bandits attacked the community on Sunday morning, December 25, 2022, when residents were preparing to go to church to celebrate Christmas. The gunmen were said to have stormed the village on motor
  • Protest Breaks Out At University of Ibadan Gate Over Ongoing Economic Hardship

    . Protest Breaks Out At University of Ibadan Gate Over Ongoing Economic Hardship

     Students have taken over the University of Ibadan, Oyo State gate to express their anger over the ongoing petrol scarcity and inability to withdraw the new naira notes. According to Punch, members of the community blocked the institution’s gate, thereby preventing vehicular movement and other activities. A student, who does not want her name men
  • Father, Amechi Ogo Sentenced to Life Imprisonment For Rap!ng His 4yr Old Daughter in Delta

    . Father, Amechi Ogo Sentenced to Life Imprisonment For Rap!ng His 4yr Old Daughter in Delta

     The Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba and presided over by Honourable Justice Flora Ngozi Azinge, has sentenced a 28-year-old father, Amechi Ogo, to life imprisonment for r@ping his four-year-old daughter.The defendant was arraigned on a charge of r@pe for having unlawful carnal of his child at Asaba on 31st May 2018, contrary to Section 218
  • Reps May Reconvene Over Naira, Fuel Scarcity– Speaker, Gbajabiamila

    . Reps May Reconvene Over Naira, Fuel Scarcity– Speaker, Gbajabiamila

     The Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila says the lawmakers may reconvene if the hardship occasioned by the naira swap continues.While the lawmakers are on break and are expected to resume after the general elections, the scarcity of the new naira notes and the attendant consequences may force the House of Representatives to r
  • At Least 195 Dead, Many Others Trapped in Collapsed Building as Earthquake Hits Turkey

    . At Least 195 Dead, Many Others Trapped in Collapsed Building as Earthquake Hits Turkey

     At least 195 people have died in a catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey - knocking down buildings and causing devastation across the region.The fatal tremor lasted about a minute, and was felt as far as Cyprus, Egypt, and Lebanon - sending terrified residents into snowy streets to avoid being crushed within the crumbling structures. The
  • NDLEA Arrests Pregnant Woman, Sylvester Gloria Onome With Hard Drugs Hidden In Radio Sets (Vid)

    .. NDLEA Arrests Pregnant Woman, Sylvester Gloria Onome With Hard Drugs Hidden In Radio Sets (Vid)

     Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA have nabbed some suspects with hard drugs.The NDLEA operatives stationed at the NAHCO export shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport on January 30, arrested a pregnant woman, Mrs. Sylvester Gloria Onome, after 800grams of skunk were discovered concealed in two small radio sets
  • Two Nigerian, Ndubuisi Uma Aja & Nwoye Godswill Arrested With Drugs Worth Over N6m In India

    .. Two Nigerian, Ndubuisi Uma Aja & Nwoye Godswill Arrested With Drugs Worth Over N6m In India

     Two Nigerian nationals who were allegedly actively involved in supplying narcotic substances near schools and colleges across the city of Mumbai have been arrested by the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Mumbai Crime Branch.The ANC in a statement on Friday, February 3, said they had received information about a cartel that supplies narcotic substances
  • 25-yr-old Suspected Bandit Informant & Food Supplier, Ibrahim Ali Arrested In Niger State

    .25-yr-old Suspected Bandit Informant & Food Supplier, Ibrahim Ali Arrested In Niger State

     Ibrahim Ali, a 25-year-old man, also known as Bajala, has been arrested in Niger State.The young man who is said to be an informant and food supplier to some kidnappers in the state was arrested by officers of the Nige State Police Command.A statement released by the police command says Ibrahim was nabbed following the arrest of two suspected kidn
  • Ogun Police Arrest 30-Year-Old Man, Michael Ogundele For Shooting Sister's Boyfriend

    .Ogun Police Arrest 30-Year-Old Man, Michael Ogundele For Shooting Sister's Boyfriend

     The Police in Ogun, on Sunday, arrested a man, Michael Ogundele, for allegedly shooting his younger sister’s boyfriend and injuring him in the Idiroko area of the state.The Police Spokesperson in the State, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, made this known in a statement issued to newsmen in Ota, Ogun.Oyeyemi explained that the suspect, 30, was arrested on F
  • 38-year-old Ritualist, Abdulrahman Woru Arrested With Human Skull In Niger State (Photo)

    .. 38-year-old Ritualist, Abdulrahman Woru Arrested With Human Skull In Niger State (Photo)

     Niger State Police Command has arrested a suspected ritualist, 38-year-old Abdulrahman Woru, for being in possession of a human skull at Babana, Borgu Local Government Area of the state on January 24.In a statement released, the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, said the suspect who resides in Babana, is from Gbesewona v
  • Yoruba Nation Agitators Arrested As They Were Preparing Ahead of Tomorrow's Protest in Lagos (Photos)

    . Yoruba Nation Agitators Arrested As They Were Preparing Ahead of Tomorrow's Protest in Lagos (Photos)

     The Lagos police command has arrested some Yoruba Nations agigators around Alausa , Ikeja area of the State.According to Police PRO, Ben Hundeyin; the arrested persons were setting up their camps in preparation for a massive protest tomorrow, Moday 6th February 2023.He wrote: Earlier today, a number of Yoruba Nation agitators commenced setting up

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