The former minister of information, Chief Edwin Clark has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to remove the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde on the grounds that he has been very economical with facts on the...
Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro, yesterday condemned last Sunday’s suicide bombing at St John’s Catholic Church in Bauchi State, which killed three and injured over 43, saying it was a threat to peaceful co-existence and aimed at ig...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has described as shocking, the recent bomb explosion at St. John’s Catholic Cathedral in Bauchi which killed four people. An explosives-laden car reportedly rammed into the line of worshippers wai...
A suicide bomber on Sunday in Bauchi detonated an explosive device at the gate of St. John’s Catholic Church, Bauchi, killing himself and three worshippers. The Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bauchi State chapter, Rev. Lawi P...
The Lamurde Local Government Authority in Adamawa has confirmed the death of four persons following an attack by unknown gunmen in Yoldi Kohi village, Bidoma Development Area. Mr Dennis Kakaba, the administrator of Bidoma Development Area in Lamurde co...
A 52-year-old man, Mohammed Lawal, was yesterday sentenced to six months imprisonment for picking a senator’s pocket inside a hotel in Abuja. Lawal was said to have pretended to beg for money from his victim, Senator Emmanuel Nkwocha, as the sena...
The Civil Liberty Organisation (CLO) has called on the Inspector-General of P olice, Mohammed Abuba ng the murder of a deputy director in the Anambra–Imo River Basin Development Authority, Owerri, Sir Basil Ejezie. He was allegedly clubbed to dea...
A suspected fraudster, Henry Adelaye, on Friday appeared before an Ebute Meta Magistrates' Court in Lagos over alleged impersonation and theft of N700,000. Unemployed 43-year-old Adelaye is standing trial on a four-count charge of impersonati...
The police in Lagos on Friday arraigned two drivers, who allegedly conspired and stole a Kia Sportage jeep worth N5.5 million from where it was parked. Patrick Onyeze and James Imeh, aged 35 and 31 years respectively, were charged along with one Sunday...
Workers of Oil Facility Surveillance Limited (OFSL), Warri, Delta State have raised the alarm over alleged threat to their lives and properties just as about 205 illegal oil refining camps have been destroyed and burnt by the outfit. At a press confere...
As part of plans to evolve more dynamic ways of combating graft in the country, the three major anti-corruption agencies, namely ;the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission(IC...
Two suspected drug traffickers have been caught at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos for concealing 2.560kg of cocaine in their travel luggage by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The suspects, Emole Kennedy Uka, 32, ...
Two trailer loads of human cargo, suspected to be insane people were yesterday intercepted at Upper Iweka, Onitsha, Anambra State. LEADERSHIP gathered that those conveying the lunatics had attempted to off-load the content of the trailer at the busy Up...
Two women suspected to be human traffickers have been arrested by a vigilante group at the Etim Edem motor park in Calabar Municipality. The suspects were reportedly chasing two underage girls in the park in an attempt to re-capture them after the girl...
Efforts by the Federal government and security agencies to clamp down on oil thieves yielded result at the weekend in Aba, Abia State, when the Anti Vandal squad of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) arre...