The Director-General of the Ethics and Corporate Compliance Institute of Nigeria, Dr. Agabaidu Jideani has declared that the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on the Capital Market, Hon. Heman Hembe and his Deputy Hon Chris Azubo...
The Sokoto State Police Command yesterday confirmed that two persons were killed in Marina area of the town during an attack by robbers. The victims were one Inspector Ahmed Saidu and a civilian who was also killed by a stray bullet. Briefing newsmen y...
The Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has announced the arrest of a fibre boat named AMOMO MARINE by its Joint Task Force Monitoring Team. The agency said the arrest of the light vessel which was carrying nine 250 litre drums a...
Two private investigators were on Tuesday arrested for alleged 20,000 pound bribery in connection with the investigations into money laundering charges against former Delta governor James Ibori. The officers, who were alleged to have been hired b...
Suspected armed robbers on Wednesday killed a police Inspector and one civilian at marina area of Sokoto metropolis. The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) reports that Alhaji Aliyu Musa, commissioner of police, confirmed the incident. Mus...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday fixed June 11 and 12 for continuation of trial in the case filed against former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole. Bankole was charged on 16 counts of contract fraud leveled against him by t...
For Nigerians on death row in several prisons around the world for drug related offences, particularly the 16 in Indonesia, it is ‘farewell’ to the land of the dead. But for the many already jailed, especially the 300 in Indonesia, they mus...
Fatima Hassan, a 44 year old Nigerian woman who was also the co-owner of a Detroit-area physical therapy company has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for her leading role in a more than $1.9 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Department of Justice...
Four persons were injured early on Sunday morning at the Amike-Aba area of Abakaliki following a clash between a local vigilance group and jubilant fans of Chelsea FC of England. The fans were celebrating Chelsea’s first-ever Union of European Fo...
In the wake of increasing kidnap activities in Delta State, no fewer than 350 kidnap cases have been recorded, 46 killed while 304 others were rescued between 2011 to date, police reports revealed. Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, the State Commissioner of Police ...
A new United States report on Narcotics, which was on Thursday presented by William R. Brownfield, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs before the US Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, has in...
Operatives of the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) code named “Operation Pluto Shield” intensified its security operations against crude oil theft in the Niger Delta region with a multiple raid on over 218 illegal refineries along the waterw...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission yesterday took custody of 11 people alleged to have been involved in oil bunkering, even as it took possession of a suspected oil bunkering vessel from the Nigerian Navy. In a statement signed by its Acting ...
The anti-vandal unit of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command has confiscated two fuel tankers used for siphoning crude oil. Parading the tankers at the command’s headquarters in Abuja, yest...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, said it has arraigned one Eronini Iwunze before Justice G.U Umar of the Federal High Court, sitting in Umuahia, on a two count charge of obtaining money under false pretence and illegal op...