Chief Inspector of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Abdulraheem Jimoh has disclosed to a Lagos High Court in Ikeja how the former Managing Director of the Bank, Dr Erastus Akingbola allegedly transferred the bank’s £8.5million into his domiciliar...
The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) yesterday wrote to President Goodluck Jonathan, asking him to direct the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to probe the Attorney Gene...
Another round of shooting between two rival cult groups in Bayelsa State yesterday provoked tension in the state capital and led to the killing of a traffic warden and another unidentified youth. The new round of shooting among the cult groups is comin...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday told an Abuja High Court that the Clerk of the National Assembly, Salisu Maikasuwa and his counterpart in the House of Representatives, Mr. Sanni Omolori, were neck deep in the alleged N38 b...
Apex pro-Islamic group in northern Nigeria, the Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria (SCSN) yesterday broke its silence on the lingering Boko Haram uprising, stating that the withdrawal of the Joint Task Force (JTF) is the only viable conditio...
Bishop Archibong Archibong, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Cross River, has called on Nigerians to learn to live in peace irrespective of ethnic or religious differences. Archibong made the call yesterday in Calabar in an int...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered a methamphetamine production factory in Lagos and arrested two suspects. The suspects are Bernard Umezurike, 44, the alleged owner of the illegal production centre, and Polycarp Ndilobi, 41...
About 61 Nigerians, including three minors, were deported from the United Kingdom yesterday. The deportees, who came aboard a chartered aircraft, arrived in the country in the early hours of the day and were received at the cargo terminal of the Murtal...
Five people have been confirmed dead and 12 seriously injured in fresh violence in clashes between restive Muslim and Christian youths yesterday. The incident was said to have occurred at about 7p.m in Angwan Rukuba area in the northern part of Jos, Pl...
A midwife, Mrs. Ekaette Akpan, has been brought before an Ebute-Metta Magistrates Court, Lagos State, over her involvement in the death of a pregnant woman and her unborn baby. Mrs. Akpan who prior to her arrest operated a maternity home in Agege area ...
A pastor, Wisdom Matthew, alongside one Ifeanyi Onuoha, 29, have been dragged before a Magistrates’ Court on Lagos Island on a two-count charge of abduction. The police alleged in the charge sheet No. G/23/2011 that the accused persons and others...
Following the present security situation in Borno State that led to the closure of the University of Maiduguri, the institution is now almost like a ghost town, putting many petty traders, cafeteria operators and other service providers out of business...
A prosecution witness and Chief Inspector(CI) of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Abduraheem Jimoh, has told the trial judge of a Lagos High Court, Justice Habeeb Abiru, how former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Dr. Erastus Akingb...
The federal government yesterday in Abuja arraigned five police chiefs at the Federal High Court in Abuja for allegedly killing the leader of the Boko Haram sect, Malam Mohammed Yusuf and his followers. The police chiefs were arraigned on fresh charge ...
Guinean President, Alpha Conde escaped a sustained rocket and gunfire attack on his residence yesterday that killed one person and left his home riddled with bullet holes. There was no official word on who was behind the attack on Conde, who came to po...