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    The Nigerian Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun has written to the Controller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service to place Mrs. Okoli Chioma Egodi on the watchlist.   Chioma Okoli is being prosecuted by the Nigeria Police Force and Erisco Foods Limited over a review of one of the company’s products that she did on Facebook.   SaharaReporters in January reported that policemen on the alleged orders of Egbetokun invaded Okoli’s residence...

    The Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on Monday adjourned the ruling on the bail application filed by the former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele. SaharaReporters had reported how Emefiele arrived at the court for his arraignment earlier on Monday morning over alleged abuse of office. Emefiele was arraigned along with his co-defendant, Henry Isioma Omole, on 26 counts before Justice Rahman Oshodi. The former governor of the apex bank...

The Assembly impeached the deputy governor on Monday after it adopted the report of a seven-member probe panel set up to probe allegations of gross misconduct against him.   The Edo State House of Assembly has impeached the state’s deputy governor, Philip Shaibu. The Assembly impeached the deputy governor on Monday after it adopted the report of a seven-member probe panel set up to probe allegations of gross misconduct against him. The Assembly had accused...

  The former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, has arrived at the Ikeja State High Court in Lagos to be arraigned on alleged abuse of office. Emefiele will be arraigned along with his co-defendant, Henry Isioma Omole, on 26 counts before Justice Rahman Oshodi on Monday. The charge marked ID/23787c/2024 and dated April 3, 2024, was filed by Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN). The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alleged that Emefiele abused his...

Human rights activist and convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, has decried the poor salaries and the N1.5 million gratuity being given to police officers and retired police personnel respectively by the Nigerian government.   Sowore, the former candidate the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 and 2023 presidential elections, said it is disheartening that men and officers of the Nigeria Police Force put their lives on the line for 35 years only to get...

The deadly clash occurred on Sunday, April 7, 2024 at Dumburum village in the Zurmi Local Government Area of the state, according to Zagazola Makama, a security analyst and counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad basin.       At least 40 bandits were reported killed, among them two leaders, Sani Dangote and Lamo Saude in a fierce clash in Zamfara State.   The deadly clash occurred on Sunday, April 7, 2024 at Dumburum village...

  The Imo State Police Command has arrested the 38-year-old owner of a guest house for the alleged murder of a youth. The guest house owner identified as Ibe Obasi and two others at large were accused of torturing and locking Ebuka Udemba in a generator room where he died. A statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, Henry Okoye, on Sunday, disclosed that Obasi had been arrested for his role in the tragic incident that...

Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election has denied that he is planning to leave the party.   In March, a former spokesperson for the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation, Daniel Bwala, said Obi was planning to leave the Labour Party and join a former Kaduna Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, in the Social Democratic Party (SDP).   Bwala, who made the allegation in a post on his X handle, said Obi...

  Some soldiers have berated the Nigerian Army spokesperson, Major General Onyema Nwachukwu for defending the ‘biased’ release of a soldier of Northern extraction facing murder charges before a Court Martial in 82 Division, Enugu.   SaharaReporters had exclusively reported that multiple military sources confirmed that two soldiers who were being court-martialled in the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army for murder were freed and re-absorbed into service.   The two soldiers said to be...

Ejimakor cited an example of how the DSS once mistakenly filed in court, a photograph of him and Kanu taken during one of his meetings with the IPOB leader.  Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, the lead counsel for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has raised the alarm over secret recordings of his meetings and conversations with his client by the officials of the Department of State Services (DSS).   Ejimakor...