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Corn sellers cause insecurity in Abuja – Wike claims

1 year ago1903 min

According to Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, street vendors in Abuja, including those selling maize, are a major cause of crime and unrest in the city. In a meeting with the management staff of the Federal Capital Territory Administration and Federal Capital Development Authority, the former governor of Rivers State made this declaration and urged them to put doing what is right first. “The most crucial thing we must do is...

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First womb transplant carried out in UK

1 year ago1553 min

A woman in the United Kingdom has become the recipient of the world’s first successful womb transplant, which was performed by a team of surgeons. It turned out that the woman’s sister was the one who donated her living womb. The unnamed recipient, who is 34 years old and married and is from England, reportedly went through a transplant procedure that lasted for nine hours, as reported by The Guardian on Wednesday. The married woman...

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Judiciary & Crime

Breaking: Court Rules in Emefiele’s Siblings’ Case Against AGF, DSS

1 year ago1832 min

FCT, Abuja – On August 23, the siblings of Godwin Emefiele, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s suspended governor, George and Okanta, filed a combined lawsuit, which the federal high court in Abuja dismissed. According to The Nation, George and Okanta sued the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF). The Emefieles’ decision to drop their lawsuit was a factor in Justice E Okpe of the Abuja Federal High Court’s...

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Four men, Adenuga, Ogunsanwo, Adebayo, Oluwasegun arraigned for assault

1 year ago11372 min

Tuesday saw the arraignment of four individuals before Magistrate Adeola Olatunbosun of the Yaba Magistrates’ Court, Lagos State, for allegedly shooting and injuring one Abbass Raufu on his right shoulder during an altercation over disputed land. Five counts of assault, forcible entering, and threat to life were brought against the defendants, Kazeem Adenuga, Adeolu Ogunsanwo, Ahmed Adebayo, and Moses Oluwasegun. Rita Momoh, the prosecution, claimed that the defendants went to Raufu equipped with firearms and...

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Judiciary & Crime Lead Stories

EFCC detains Man, Stephen Acheme Akpa Involved In Abuja Land Scam

1 year ago1801 min

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained a man named Stephen Acheme Akpa in connection with an alleged land fraud scheme over N500,000,000. On December 2, 2022, the Commission made its initial arrest of Akpa, the CEO of Zoe New Dawn Nigeria Limited, at his workplace in Abuja’s Idu axis. This comes after a petition that said he used deception to obtain N500,000,000. The suspect jumped the administrative bail provided by the Commission,...

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Editors' Pick Judiciary & Crime

Breaking: UK police accuse Nigeria’s former petroleum minister Diezani of bribery

1 year ago2124 min

Indictments for bribery have been brought against Diezani Alison-Madueke, the former minister of petroleum resources of Nigeria, according to the National Crime Agency (NCA) of the United Kingdom. Since her initial detention in London in October 2015, Alison-Madueke has been free on bail. She will show up in court in the British capital on October 2, according to the NCA. According to the AFP, shortly after her detention, the family’s attorney declared...

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Vandalism: NSCDC seizes Rail Tracks Worth N800m, detains 13 Suspects

1 year ago1362 min

13 alleged railway vandals have been detained by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) with substantial quantities of long rails and sleepers valued at N800 million Naira. At the NSCDC Headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday, the suspects were led out in front of five vehicles carrying a sizable number of vandalised rails and sleepers. The suspects were detained by the Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad (CGs SIS), according to the NSCDC’s spokesman Babawale...

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Security & Defence

Armed forces stop alleged IPOB/ESN attack in Imo, kill terrorists in Zamfara

1 year ago1313 min

The Eastern Security Network (IPOB/ESN), an armed offshoot of the putative Indigenous People of Biafra, attempted to attack the 34 Artillery Brigade’s Forward Operating Base at Ukwuorji, which is located along the Owerri-Onitsha motorway. The ‘irredentist fighters’ tried to attack the troops on August 20, 2023, but failed when they came under the superior firepower of the watchful troops, according to the army spokesman, Brig. General Onyema Nwachukwu. One of the fighters was neutralised by...

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Judiciary & Crime Latest News

Adamawa Police Command detain two alleged kidnappers

1 year ago1431 min

In the state’s Jada Local Government Area (LGA), the Adamawa Police Command has detained two alleged kidnappers. The command’s spokesperson, SP Suleiman Nguroje, revealed this in a statement released on Tuesday in Yola. According to Nguroje, the suspects were detained on August 17 by the command in Kojoli, Jada LGA’s intelligence department. “The suspects are Kojoli residents Abdullahi Iya, 20, and Barkindo Yahaya, 19. The statement said, “They were apprehended after they called and...

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Falana works to free former EFCC boss Bawa

1 year ago11022 min

Abdulrasheed Bawa, the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has been held by the Department of State Services (DSS) for 67 days without being charged or facing a trial. A human rights attorney from Lagos, Femi Falana (SAN), has launched a campaign to secure Bawa’s release. He claimed that Bawa’s remand order had expired in a statement he made today, August 20. He claims that Bawa’s incarceration is in violation of...

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