A HIGH Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Apo, Abuja has convicted former member of House of Representatives from Kano State, Farouk Lawan for receiving $500,000 bribe from a businessman, Femi Otedola. Justice Angella Otaluka convicted Lawan on…
THE Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, June 21, 2021 arraigned one Alhaji Kyari Mohammed before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on a two-count charge bordering on criminal…
THE trial of Victor Uadiale and Capt. Everest Nnaji before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos for an alleged $5million (Five Million United States Dollars) fraud continued on Monday, June 21, 2021, with the…
AN anti-corruption group, Citizens Awareness Against Corruption and Social Vices Initiative, CAACASVI, has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari over alleged maladministration in the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA. The petition, dated June 21, was signed by the Executive Director of the…
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on June 17, 2021 secured the conviction of Yinka Bello and Energy Fields Nigeria Limited before Justice K. N. Ogbonnaya of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja. The conviction followed a change…
THE Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, June 17, 2021, secured the conviction and sentencing of Joseph Worhabiko Adele (a.k.a Joseph Azunda), Richie Edward Ojeba and John Ovie Ogo for N65million fraud before…
JUSTICE Mahmud Abdulgafar of Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, at a resumed sitting on pending cases on Wednesday adjourned till June 30, 2021 for adoption of written addresses in a fraud case involving a self-styled herbalist, Jamiu Isiaka, who allegedly…
THE Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Wednesday 16 June, 2021 reiterated the Commission`s readiness to implement the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, which it signed with the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria to run…
THE Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) has resolved to suspend its over two-month-old nationwide strike, effective from Monday. The decision to call off the strike was taken at the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of JUSUN, which held in…
THE National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has suspended the license of Human Rights Radio. This was announced in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by NBC which frowned at the misconduct of the station and its owners. The travails of…
