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…
Dangers Of Fulani Janjaweed In Nigeria
The Janjaweed are militia that operate in Darfur, Western Sudan, and Eastern Chad. Using the United Nations definition, the Janjaweed comprised Sudanese Arab tribes, the core of whom are from the Abbala (camel herder) background with significant recruitment from the…
EFCC Arraigns Man Over Attempted N7m Theft
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday 11 April, 2016 arraigned one Adekunle Yakub Asuni before Justice. I.B. Gafai of the Federal High Court Awka, Anambra State on a four count charge for attempting to steal the sum…
‘347 Shiites Killed By Nigerian Troops Given Secret Mass Burial’
The Kaduna State Government on Monday announced that 347 persons were killed during the December 12 Shiite/Nigerian Army clash in Zaria. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Balarabe Lawal, disclosed this in a government submission at the ongoing Public…
CSO Wants Buhari To Stop Osun LG Funds, Petition EFCC, Others
A group in Osun State, the Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEOS) has urged the Federal Government to henceforth stop releasing state’s Local Government funds to the through Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola. The group also petitioned President Muhammadu…
More Trouble As Court Orders EFCC To Pay N5m Fine Over Rights Violation
Few days after a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday awarded N10 bn as damages in favour of the former Acting Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, over his arrest by the Economic and Financial…
Dasuki Floors FG at ECOWAS Court Over Arrest, Unlawful Detention
The former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Muhammed Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) has won the first leg of his court action challenging his alleged unlawful arrest and detention without trial since December last year by the federal government at the Economic…
Alleged NIMASA Fraud: Tompolo Challenges Constitutionality of His Trial
The former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo a.k.a Tompolo has instituted a suit before a Lagos Federal High Court, seeking an interpretation and nullification of certain sections of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, (ACJA) 2015, which he claimed…
DSS Lied Against IPOB Over Killing of Five Northerners – Igbo Groups Say
South-East based groups, the Igbo Women Assembly, IWA, and the Igbo Youth Movement, IYM, Sunday, described as falsehood allegation by the Department of State Services, DSS, over the killing of five Northerners. The DSS had alleged that the five Northerners…
Ambode Govt. Launches Online Access to State Laws
The Governor Akinwunmi Ambode-led Lagos State Government has announced the launch of an online platform where lawyers, investors and the general public can have access to all the laws of the state. This was disclosed by the State’s Attorney General…
Court Orders EFCC To Pay PDP Chieftain, Uche Secondus N10bn Damages Over Arrest, Detention
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday awarded N10 bn as damages in favour of the former Acting Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, over his arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)….
