As the war against pension scam gathers momentum, LEADERSHIP SUNDAY can authoritatively report that the chairman of the Pension Reform Task force, Abdulrasheed Maina, was offered a princely sum of N1.4 billion as bribe to halt his reforms. Maina, who i...
There seems to be no reprieve in sight for embattled former Bayelsa State Governor Timipre Sylva, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday filed a six-count charge of money laundering against him at the Federal High Court in Abu...
The Kano State Police Command has said that the house of the acting inspector- general of police, Muhammad Dikko Abubakar was never attacked by the suspected Boko Haram sect members, saying the attack was on policemen who were on foot patrol and not th...
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde has expressed concern over cases of blackmail against operatives of the anti-graft agency by perceived antagonists, even as he said that operatives of the agency had b...
Mr John Haruna, the outgoing Commissioner of Police in Benue, has warned police officers in the state against indiscriminate allocation of arms to policemen. He gave the warning on Thursday when he visited the Police Area Command in Otukpo. ...
The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has called for a stiffer penalty for manufacturers and importers of counterfeit drugs into the country. The Director-General, Dr. Paul Orhii, while speaking at an award ceremony or...
Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha has described as unfounded the allegation that he was caught in money-laundering in London by Metropolitan Police. Gov. Okorocha who stated this while speaking with Journalists at Sam Mbakwe Cargo Airpor...
Dr Joseph Odumodu, the Director General of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), says there are 50 million fake and sub standard tyres currently in circulation in the country. He said this in Awka on Thursday at a “Road Walk” embarke...
Alhaji Saad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto on Thursday in Abuja, urged Nigerians to stand against instability in the country. Abubakar made the call in a seminar organised by Nigeria Women of Faith Network on ``The Role of Women of Faith in Peace Build...
Mr John Haruna, the Commissioner of Police in Benue, has decried the high rate of cultism in the state. Haruna made the observation on Wednesday in Gboko, Benue, when he met with His Royal Highness, the Tor Tiv, Mr Alfred Torkula.&nbs...
President Goodluck Jonathan and British Prime Minister, Mr David Cameron yesterday agreed to join forces with other friendly nations in the prosecution of the war against terrorism.Speaking when he met Cameron ahead of the London Summit on Somalia whic...
A 25-year-old married woman, Mrs Mary Haruna, who could not control her libido, especially on the last Valentine’s Day, has incurred the wrath of the law as she is to spend the next four months behind bars. An Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada in th...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Anambra, says it confiscated 192.626kg of hard drugs within the state in 2011. Mr Timinipre Zikiye, the Anambra Commander of the agency, said on Tuesday in Onitsha that the seized hard drugs comprised...
The Ogun Police command on Monday in Abeokuta warned its officers against acts of indiscipline, unethical behaviour and bad dressing. Speaking at a one-day workshop organised for its officers, the command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mr Muy...
Eight suspected cultists,all below the ages of eighteen were yesterday arrested in Nyongun Village of Wadata area in Makurdi Local government of the state by men of the Benue State police command. They are Terseer Iorbee, Emmanuel Ogaba, Donald Iornum ...