The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), yesterday,asked the Abuja division of the Federal High Court to order the protection of witnesses testifying in the ongoing trial of Ali Bello, a nephew of the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Read more…
A Sharia court in Kano has ordered the remand of notorious TikTok influencer, Murja Ibrahim Kunya at the Kurmawa Correctional Facility pending hearing of charges against her. The Kano Hisbah Board arrested Murja on Tuesday morning at her Hotoro residence Read more…
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, on Tuesday, while appearing before the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Abuja, to testified in the to the ongoing trial of ex-Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Read more…
The killing of three Palestinian men in a hospital in the occupied West Bank last month by Israeli commandos disguised as medical workers and Muslim women may amount to war crimes, a group of U.N. experts said on Friday. The Read more…
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja, spent almost N1.5 billion in violation of financial regulations between January 2019 and December 2020, the latest audit report of the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation (OAuGF) has shown. Read more…
Oyo State Government has identified three suspects in connection with the recent explosion at Bodija, Ibadan for possible prosecution. The three persons of interest comprise immediate and extended family members of the main person who rented the property but said to have Read more…
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, ordered the federal government to fix the prices of petrol, diesel, kerosene and other goods within seven days from February 7, 2024. Trial judge, Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa, specifically ordered the government to Read more…
Judge Pauline Newman on Wednesday lost a bid to persuade the federal court system’s governing body to review her suspension from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit amid an unusually public internal investigation into the 96-year-old jurist’s Read more…
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday quashed the N21.5bn money laundry charges preferred against a former Chief of Air Staff, Adesola Amosun, and two others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The EFCC had on June 29, Read more…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has refused the request for bail made by three out of the five supporters of Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers state charged with terrorism and murder. The five suspects are Chime Eguma Ezebalike, Prince Read more…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, to probe the allegations that $3.4 billion loan obtained from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Read more…
In a 100-day span ending January 2024, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has announced that it recovered N70.6 billion, secured 747 convictions, mainly for cybercrimes, out of 2,657 accepted petitions. According to EFCC Chairman Ola Olukoyede, the recoveries Read more…