Thursday, 09 January, 2025

Category: Crime


A forensic analyst Bamaiyi Haruna has revealed to The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) high court that the document indicating the approval of $6.2m for foreign election observers during President Buhari’s administration was forged. The document examiner with the Economic and Read more…


Sani Abdullahi, one of the teachers of Government Secondary School (GSS), Kuriga in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, says a total of 287 students are in captivity. Daily Trust had reported how bandits invaded the school on Thursday Read more…


A growing number of children in Gaza are dying from dehydration and malnutrition, the Palestinian health ministry said Sunday, amid desperate conditions due to Israel’s throttling of aid and destruction of the besieged enclave — reinforcing the urgency of this Read more…


Following public outcry on alleged extortion through illegal and illicit transactions through point-of-sale (POS) machine operators and connivance with certain police operatives, the Police headquarters has reiterated the ban on the use of POS machines and other electronic mobile money Read more…


The police have beefed up security at the warehouses belonging to the National Emergency Management Agency nationwide following the looting of food warehouses in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Sunday, by suspected hoodlums. This was as soldiers foiled an Read more…


Nigeria’s government has demanded $10 billion from Binance after central bank Governor Olayemi Cardoso said the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume had enabled $26 billion of untraceable funds to leave the country as it faces a foreign exchange crisis and is Read more…


It may never be known whether the man, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, would have gone ahead to contest in the 2023 presidential election if he had an idea of what had gone down under the eight-year rule of Muhammadu Buhari. It Read more…


A Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Emmanuel Orekoya, was on Tuesday, Feb. 27, arraigned before the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court for allegedly raping and impregnating his 17- year-old daughter. The defendant is facing two Read more…


The police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have confirmed that Barrister Chris Agidy, a kidnapped victim in Abuja, has been killed by his abductors. Agidy, a former Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Abuja branch and senior legislative Read more…


Spanish investigators have a new theory about how murdered Russian defector pilot Maxim Kuzminov gave away his real identity before his  assassination, news outlet El Mundo has reported. Last August, the military pilot hijacked a Russian Mi-8 cargo helicopter and flew Read more…


The Anambra State Police Command said it has arrested some suspects in connection to the killing of the President-General of the Umuoji community in the Idemili North Local Government Area of the state, Silas Onyima. The state police spokesman, DSP Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor The hearing of the second prosecution witness continued last week as Mrs Ebere Okeke who was the Woman Leader for the campaign organization mounted the witness box before an Ihiala High Court sitting in Nnewi, over the Read more…