Nigeria Breaking News
The United Kingdom’s Home Office has revoked the visas of several Nigerian nurses under investigation for alleged examination fraud, ordering them to leave the country. According to Nursing Times, the affected nurses are still awaiting the outcomes of their appeals. However, they have received official letters from the Home Office instructing them to leave the UK …
Abuja— The trial of 20 former leaders of Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, was stalled at a Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court due to the absence of a defendant, Adamu Ibrahim. Ibrahim was said to be in custody of Calabar prison. The former chairman, Lucky Osesua and others, are being prosecuted in the charge, marked: …
Three sales ladies, Olamide Efuntade, Nofisat Hammed and Aliyat Adio have been arraigned before a Lagos Chief Magistrate’s Court, sitting at Yaba, over alleged conspiracy and stealing of the total sum of N24. 5 million. The three sales ladies were arraigned by operatives of the Force Criminal Investigation Department, ForceCID, Annex, Alagbon, Ikoyi, Lagos. The …
LAGOS — A Lagos State High Court, yesterday, ruled in favour of the Isale-Eko Descendants Union in its case against Amazon Web Services and the creators of the controversial movie, Gangs of Lagos, mandating a public apology for misrepresenting the Eyo Festival and Isale-Eko community. Following the film’s release on Amazon Prime Video, members of …
Operatives of the FCT Police Command have neutralized a notorious bandit, Salisu Mohammed, alias Dogo Saleh, who had been terrorizing residents, following an intense counter-kidnapping operation aimed at dismantling a syndicate responsible for violent crimes. “The killing of the notorious kidnapper whose gang mostly operates along the Kaduna – Lokoja – Enugu highway and within …
Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested Tuesday in Manila by police acting on an International Criminal Court warrant tied to his deadly war on drugs. The 79-year-old faces a charge of “the crime against humanity of murder”, according to the ICC, for a crackdown that rights groups estimate killed tens of thousands of mostly …
The Police Command in Lagos State has detained 2 Pakistani nationals among other criminal suspects for various offences committed between Feb. 27 to date. The Command’s spokesperson, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this during a press briefing at the Command’s headquarters in Ikeja on Monday. Hundeyin stated that among those arrested were two Pakistani nationals who …
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has successfully secured a total of 95 years in prison for four convicted drug kingpins—Ogbuji Christian Ifeanyi, Iloduba Augustine Chinonye, Shuaibu Nuhu Isa (a.k.a Don), and Zidon Zurga—for trafficking cocaine and skunk worth over N4.6 billion. The Federal High Courts in Lagos and Yola, Adamawa State handed down …
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, adjourned further hearing on the 19-count money laundering charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against the former Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to March 8. Trial Justice Emeka Nwite adjourned to rule on EFCC’s opposition to the admissibility of a judgement …
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a welder, Oladokun Johnson; a truck driver, Azeez Salami and a truck owner, Olaleye Kamaldeen, over the electrocution of a 23-year-old apprentice, Jonathan Emmanuel, at a welding workshop in the Asimolowo area of Ifo. The father of the late Emmanuel, Mr Abah Emmanuel, was said to have reported …