Police arrests serial killer, herbalist, in the Akinyele killings

Following the manhunt launched by the Oyo State Police Command to apprehend the culprits in connection with killings at the Akinyele axis of the state, the suspected serial killer of the innocent victims has confessed on how he was able to catch on his targets. While parading the suspected criminals at the police headquarters, Eleyele, […]

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Human rights legend, US congressman, John Lewis, dies

The son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a towering figure of the civil rights movement and a longtime US congressman, has died after a six-month battle with cancer. He was 80. “It is with inconsolable grief and enduring sadness that we announce […]

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Suspected killer of the Lagos Gokada CEO, arrested in US

Tyrese Devon Haspil, an aide of 33 year-old Gokada CEO, Fahim Saleh, has been arrested in New York, United States, for his gruesome murder. According to New York Times, the 21 year-old Haspil, has been accused as the person who carried out the gruesome dismemberment of Saleh, an American tech millionaire, doing business in Nigeria. […]

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Suspected female cultist says she slept with 10 male cultists at initiation

Blessing David, a 19-year-old girl and suspected member of a cult known as the Marine Girls has recounted how she slept with 10 men before being initiated into the group. Blessing who made the confession while being paraded alongside 15 armed robbery suspects, six cultists, three kidnappers and four murder suspects at the headquarters of the Edo […]

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Court refuses to order permanent forfeiture, returns houses seized by EFCC to Saraki

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) application to seek the final forfeiture of two houses belonging to former Senate President, Bukola Saraki in Ilorin to the federal government, was struck out by a Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday July 16. The court on Thursday reversed its order of interim forfeiture of the […]

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Buhari warns his Ministers, MDAs and CEOs not to disrespect NASS

In a statement on Thursday, the President, Muhammadu Buhari has warned ministers and all heads of departments and agencies to, at all times, conduct themselves in ways that will not undermine the National Assembly as an institution, its leadership and members. According to the statement released by the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and […]

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Reps Committee issues warrant of arrest against Pondei, NDDC acting MD

Members of the House of Representatives Committee on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) have issued a warrant of arrest against the acting Managing Director of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the NDDC, Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei, who walked out on them on Thursday July 16. Pondei and his team were at the House to […]

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Using Police to raid Joi Nunieh’s home at 4.00am is cowardly and shameful ―Fani-Kayode

Former Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani Kayode has reacted to the police invasion of Joi Numieh’s home which took place as early as 4:00am on Thursday morning. Mr. Fani-Kayode, in two separate tweets, referred to the incident as cowardly and shameful. He commended gov Wike for freeing and saving her. “Sending armed policemen […]

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Kidnappers arrested in Nigeria, decomposing corpse of their victim found (Graphic photo)

Rivers State Police Command have arrested two alleged notorious kidnappers in a sting operation carried out on Tuesday July 14. Decomposing corpse of their victim who a N1m ransom was paid for after being kidnapped on Friday, May 15, 2020 at Woji, Port Harcourt, was recovered by operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the state […]

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Appeal Court validates Oyo councils chairmen’s sack

The judgment of an Oyo State High Court which restrained the Oyo state governor and government from dissolving local government councils in the state, was on Wednesday July 15, set aside by a Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan. Justice Haruna Tsammani who presided over the case, said the case was initiated on mere speculations and […]

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Gov Wike frees ex-NDDC boss, Nunieh from Police siege (Video)

Nyesom Wike, the Rivers State Governor, on Thursday stormed the Port Harcourt residence of former Acting Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Joi Nunieh, and freed her from the barricade by policemen believed to be from the Inspector General of Police Office. Thisday reports that Policemen in the early hours of Thursday […]

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National Assembly Commission sacks NASS Clerk, 150 others

A fresh crisis has begun at Nigeria’s National Assembly over the retirement of the Clerk to the National Assembly, Mohammed Sani-Omolori and over 150 senior management staff members of the parliament. The National Assembly Service Commission (NASC), on Wednesday announced the retirement of the Clerk, Sani-Omolori and the others. But the National Assembly Clerk being […]

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Nigeria’s first female combat pilot, Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, dies

Nigeria’s first female combat pilot, Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile is dead. She died at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base in Kaduna State, Nigeria on Tuesday. 24-year-old Tolulope was said to have been hit by a car driven by a former classmate who wanted to greet her. The unnamed ex-classmate was reportedly reversing the car […]

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Ex-ED of NIMASA, Bala Agaba, gets 7 years jail for fraud

A former Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Executive Director (ED), Captain Ezekiel Bala Agaba, has been handed a 7 years imprisonment after he was found guilty of N1.5bn fraud by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos. Agaba was alleged to have looted N1.5 billion from NIMASA while in charge of Maritime, Safety […]

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Magu released after spending 10 days in custody

After cooling off for 10 days in custody, the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, has been released. The embattled Magu was arrested on July 6, 2020 amid allegations of corruption and brought before the Justice Ayo Salami-led Presidential investigation panel. The suspended EFCC boss was accused […]

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