Crime

Nine years after his arrest, the International Criminal Court (ICC) found former Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) warlord, Bosco Ntaganda, guilty of war crimes and related offences committed in Ituri, between 2002 and 2003. Trial Chamber VI, composed of ...

Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (rtd.), Former Chief of Air Staff, and two others, told Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, that they were ready for a plea bargain with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).  They ...

A 19-year-old Ifeoluwa Dodo alleged to be a strong member of Aiye confraternity at Odo-Eran Street, Bariga was arrested by the Operatives of Operation Crush from Bariga Police Station. Mr. Bala Elkana, The spokesman of the Lagos State Police command ...

Three suspected adulterated drinks producers were arrested in Lagos for producing large quantities of alcoholic beverages suspected to be fake namely: Dare Shittu, 27, Shittu Opeyemi Abdusalam, 19 and Oyenuga Biola, 29. In a statement in Lagos, The spokesman of ...

The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has admitted that it received a purported over-bloated turnover of Biatemp Ventures Limited account from First Bank Plc. In a statement of defence filed before the Federal High Court, Abuja, FIRS stated that it ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has instructed a commercial bank not to honour Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC’s) request for payments over alleged money laundering. In a letter addressed to the Managing Director of one the bank and ...

Catholic Bishop of Bauchi, Most Reverend (Dr.) Hilary Dachelem, has identified the high level of corruption in government, lack of clear separation of powers, societal class and interests, the broken justice system, tribalism, insecurity and insurgencies as well as poverty ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has re-arraigned a former Minister of State for Power, Muhammad Wakil and four others before Justice J.K. Dagad of the Federal High Court, Maiduguri for fraud. Wakil is standing trial alongside Garba Abacha, ...

Federal High Court, Lagos, has awarded a cost of N100,000 in favour of Department of State Services (DSS) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) against Senator Buruji Kashamu. According to the ruling, Kashamu will pay N50,000 each to ...

The six officers of Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS) who brutalised and almost killed a journalist, Kofi Bartels in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, are to appear before the Commissioner of Police (CP), Usman Belel, today. Bartels, an employee of Nigeria ...