COAS with Chairman/CEO NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, CEO of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brigadier General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd), has disclosed that over fifteen million Nigerians, mainly youths between the ages of 16 and 64, indulge in the use of illicit...
Against the backdrop of recent attacks on Kaduna International Airport by kidnappers, during which members of staff of Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, were abducted, and the attacks on police stations in Owerri, Imo State, the Federal Ministry of Aviation has warned of imminent planned attacks across airports...
The Chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in Nasarawa State, Alhaji Mohammed Hussain has been killed by suspected bandits. According to the Nasarawa Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Ramham Nansel, information was received yesterday, 2nd April, at about 7pm, to the effect that unknown gunmen suspected to be Fulani...
The Commissioner of Police in Lagos, Hakeem Odumosu, on Saturday paid a condolence visit to the family of a man shot dead by an officer at Ogombo, in the Sangotedo area of the state. Jelili Bakare was fatally shot on March 18 by the police inspector, identified as Jonathan Company,...
The Abuja Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of Shedrack Luke Greeson a.k.a Ifaokurola Babalawo, before Justice Musa Usman of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Bwari, Abuja. Greeson, who was arrested in January, 2021 by operatives of the Commission for defrauding...
The defendant, Ibrahim Mahmud Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama Abuja has fixed April 20, 2021 for definite hearing of the six count charge of forgery and attempt to obtain $100,000,000 USD, brought against Ibrahim Olanrewaju Mahmud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The...
The Supreme Court has upheld the 10-year prison term imposed on former Plateau Governor, Joshua Dariye, who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, for fraud. The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, on November 16, 2018 affirmed the ruling of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, which...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Ilorin Zonal office, has arraigned a serving corps member and a 400-level student of AL-Hikma University, Ilorin, over offenses bordering on theft to the tune of N9.1million. The corps member, Nazim Usman Gomna, serving at the Jigawa State House of Assembly, and the...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has told a Federal High Court, Abuja, how a private lawyer, Mr. Umar Hussaini received the sum of N1.1 billion from Cambial Ltd, an estate development firm, over the sale of 120 units of houses for officers of the...
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, today February 4, 2021, ordered the forfeiture, to the Federal Government, of a property belonging to Sani Dan-Galadima, a member of the House of Representatives, representing Kaura-Namoda Federal Constituency of Zamfara, who stood surety to Faisal Maina. The property...