FG Loses Bid To Try Dasuki In Secret As Court Again Court Orders FG To Allow Him Access To Lawyers, Family
The Federal Government today lost its bid at the Federal High Court Abuja to conduct secret trial of former National Security Adviser, Colonel Muhammad Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) in the charges of unlawful possession of firearm and money laundering brought against…
GOC Escapes Boko Haram Ambush In Borno, One Killed
The leading elements of the Acting General Officer Commanding (GOC), 7 Division Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Victor Ezugwu’s leading convoy was about 8.30am this morning ambushed by suspected Boko Haram terrorists enroute to visit troops in Bama. According to a…
N.3bn Fraud: Panic in Osun Over ICPC Invitation
Osun State College of Education, Ila-Orangun Community was thrown into panic and fear on Monday as the anti-graft agency, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission(ICPC) sent an invitation letter to the concerned authority of the College on…
UBA Teller Officer Docked Over N1.1m Theft
A teller officer with United Bank of Africa, UBA, Plc, Toheeb Adelabu, was on Tuesday, charged before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, on the alleged theft of N1.1 million. The 30 years old accused person, attached to the…
Synagogue Tragedy: Court Remands TB Joshua’s Engineers
An Ikeja High Court of Lagos state on Tuesday, ordered the remand of two engineers who constructed the collapsed T. B. Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) seven-storey guest house, at Kirikiri Maximum Prisons. The court presided by Justice…
NYSC Gets New Director General
The new Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Sule Kazaure, on Monday formally assumed duty as the 17th head of the corps, promising to prioritize welfare of corps members and staff. Speaking at the hand-over ceremony in Abuja,…
Illicit Drugs: Senegalese Woman Jailed 4yrs
A Lagos Federal High Court, on Monday, sentenced a 43 year old Senegalese woman, Sall Fatou the act four years-jail term over drug trafficking. The convict, who is from the Senegal capital, Dakar, according to the anti-drugs agency, the National…
Nigerian Troops Engage Terrorists in Borno, Discover Boko Haram Sentries, Underground Food Storage
Boko Haram terrorists attack troops of 113 Battalion at Kareto Northern Borno State. The troops have been battling the insurgents since early hours of today. Details to follow shortly. Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman Acting Director Army Public Relations PRNigeria encourages…
Alleged N47.7bn NIMASA Fraud: EFCC Arraigns Tompolo, 8 Others in Absentia
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, arraigned the former Niger/Delta warlord, Mr. Government Oweize Ekemupolo, popularly called Tompolo, was arraigned in absentia before a Lagos Federal High Court on a 22 count-charge bordering on fraud, conversation of…
Remembering African Butcheries Of The Past, A Case Of Rwandan Genocide: In Honour Of Late Agathe Uwilingiyamana and Victims Of Regime Atrocities In Africa
Witten By Emeka Umeagbalasi “The killings have stopped, not because of changing of heart, but because there are few people left to be killed” (Brig General Paul Kagame (as he then was), leader of the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF), responding to…
Abu Health Workers Strike: Group Seeks FG, Emir’s Intervention
The ongoing strike by three health unions of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria has drawn public attention as it takes toll on innocent patients. Joining the public concern, the Northern Emancipation Network yesterday said it has become necessary at this…
