EFCC Witness Narrates How NIMASA Transfered N1.5bn Into Many Accounts
A prosecution witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes ‎Commission (EFCC), Teslim Ajuwon, on Thursday, told an Old Igbosere High Court of Lagos State, on how the sum of N1.5 billion was transferred from Nigerian Maritime Administration Safety Agency (NIMASA)…
Navy Arrests Pipeline Vandals, Destroys Illegal Refineries In Niger Delta
The Nigerian Navy patrol team deployed from NNS PATHFINDER has arrested 06 persons suspected to be engaged in operations of illegal refinery and pipeline vandalism. The suspects who are now undergoing investigation were picked up from a large warehouse located…
Saleswoman Jailed 2 Years For Stealing N.5m
An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Thursday, sentenced a 31 year-old saleswoman, Sandra Aro, to two years imprisonment for stealing her employers N500,000. The court presided over by Magistrate Mrs M.O. Olajuwon, sentenced the convict to a jail term…
Lagos CJ Frees 153 From Prison
No fewer than 153 awaiting inmates of the Maximum and Medium prisons ‎Ikoyi, Lagos, we’re released by the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade on Wednesday. Three of the released inmates were said to have been in the…
Ivwurie Extols Osanebi’s Leadership Virtues
Member representing Ethiope East State Constituency in the Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Chief Evans Ochuko Ivwurie, has said that the Deputy Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Friday Ossai Osanebi, is an exceptional Deltan and an…
I WON KOGI GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION BY 204,877 VOTES – Idris Wada
Ex-Governor Idris Wada of Kogi on Wednesday told the State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja that he won the 2015 governorship election in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the former governor contested the election…
Kogi Polls: Votes Bello Inherited Belong to APC Not Audu – Chief of Staff
A defence witness in the Kogi State governorship election petition, Edward Onoja, says votes cast in the state governorship election are for the parties and not for the candidates. Onoja, who is the Chief of Staff to Governor Yahaya Bello…
General Who Lost Barracks to Boko Haram Discharged, Acquitted
The trial by a military court martial of Brigadier General J. O. Akomolafe, who was the former Brigade Commander of HQ 21 Brigade, Bama in Borno State, has finally been concluded. The officer was arraigned before the military court sitting…
UK Telegraph: Buhari Using Britain’s Money to Fight Opposition Not Boko Haram
Hundreds of millions of pounds of British foreign aid given to Nigeria to help combat Boko Haram terrorists is instead allegedly being used to fund a witch-hunt against opposition politicians, UK Telegraph reports. In a publication on Tuesday, Con Coughlin,…
Ex-NIMASA Acting DG Arraigned Over N645m Theft
The Economy and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC, on Tuesday, arraigned the former acting Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Haruna Jauro, and six others before a Lagos Federal High Court, over an alleged stealing and conversion…
EFCC Re-arraigned NAMA MD, 6 Others Over N6.8bn Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) Tuesday, re-arraigned the serving Managing Director of the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, Ibrahim Abdulsalam and six other persons over alleged stealing and conversion of the agency’s money amounting to N6,850,447, 609.90. The…
