The Department of State Services (DSS), a secret police agency, has come under fire from the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) for its agents’ altercation with members of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) on Tuesday at the Federal High Court in Lagos. The argument centred on which agency maintains custody of suspended CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele after the court granted him bail. The troubled CBN governor was then taken into custody again by the DSS. When...
After reportedly scamming a major oil and gas corporation in the nation last week for N67.5 million, a suspected fraudster operating under the name “Capital Plus Investment Services Ltd,” owned by Paul Demudia Eigbefoh, is on the run. The impacted company has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to collect N67.5 million that it claims Paul Demudia Eigbefoh, commonly known as Paul Smith, fraudulently obtained. In a petition sent to the EFCC Lagos...
Bola Tinubu’s election as president of Nigeria is allegedly illegal, illegitimate, and in violation of the constitution, according to Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate. According to Atiku, Tinubu’s ability to run for president of Nigeria is in doubt because he has admitted to losing $460,000 to the American government as a result of drug trafficking and money laundering charges, and a witness has attested to this fact. In his final...
The popular viral video regarding pipeline vandalism near the Aboru neighbourhood of Ipaja, Lagos, has caused some concern among Lagosians. However, the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service (LSFRS) has allayed their concerns by labelling it as a false alarm. In a statement, LSFRS director Margaret Adeseye pleaded with the public to dismiss the footage. In the video, a male voiceover warned the state’s authorities to save the neighbourhood if the vandalism led to a...
It was learned that Ukodhiko recruited Ejumejowo’s services after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) sealed his assets and frozen 48 of his bank accounts, and the legislator allegedly failed to pay the attorney the agreed-upon legal fees. Jonathan Ukodhiko, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmaker representing the Isoko federal constituency in Delta State, has been sued in a high court of the Federal Capital Territory in the Abuja judicial division for allegedly owing...
Eight out of the eleven elected council members of Kano State’s Nassarawa Local Government overwhelmingly terminated Lawal Shuaibu Aranfoso as council chairman for reportedly leasing the locality’s revenue section to a friend. Other accusations against the chairman include his complete disregard for the local government while pursuing his own interests in Abuja and other locations, which caused the secretariat to deteriorate into a shell of what it once was. The chairman had abandoned the local...
The United Action Front of Civil Society has stated that it views the Lagos State Government’s disclosure of the planned mass burial of 103 #EndSARS victims as confirmation of the careless killing of unarmed civilian protesters and Nigerian citizens at the Lekki Tollgate and other locations in October 2020. The group claimed that the most recent discovery, which comes nearly three years after the repulsive episode that brought global condemnations, “speaks copiously to the repression...
The family of Miss Chinyere Awuda, 27, who was discovered dead inside a hotel swimming pool on July 16 has claimed that their daughter was the victim of a plot and purposeful murder. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Chinyere was reported to have gone out clubbing on July 16 but was discovered dead the following morning in an abandoned swimming pool on the hotel grounds. By way of their attorney, Eziafa Enwedo,...
The 103 victims who were slated for mass burial were among Nigerian countrymen who “were slaughtered in October 2020 by the agents of government because they protested against police brutality,” the group bemoaned. In a petition to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Global Coalition for Security and Democracy in Nigeria (GCSDN) has called for the prosecution of former President Muhammadu Buhari, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, and former Minister of Information and Culture...
On the grounds of the Federal High Court in Lagos State, Department of State Services agents detained a senior official of Ikoyi Prisons. The custody dispute involving suspended Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele and the arrest may have some bearing on the situation. The secret service agents later freed the Ikoyi jail official who had been violently handled and forced into the DSS car. It was previously reported that a minor drama occurred...
