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The second arraignment of alleged billionaire kidnap kingpin, Evans, stalled in Lagos

The arraignment of alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike a.k.a Evans at an Igbosere High Court in Lagos Island on fresh charges, was on...

SERAP to Saraki, Dogara: ‘Withdraw directives to banks to unfreeze Mrs Jonathan’s accounts’

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the President of the Senate Dr Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives...

Evans Pleads Not Guilty To Kidnap Charges

[dropcap]N[/dropcap]otorious kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans, on Thursday entered a not guilty plea to a two-count amended charge of conspiracy and kidnapping at an...

Lawmakers set to probe TCN over $2bn foreign loans

The House of Representatives will investigate $2 billion of foreign loans which the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) may have raised without official approval, lawmakers...

Breaking: 45 Boko Haram terrorists convicted, jailed 3 to 31 years

[dropcap]A[/dropcap] Federal High Court sitting in Kainji, Niger State, has convicted and sentenced 45 Boko Haram members to between 3 and 31 years...

High Court orders forfeiture of 56 houses linked to former petroleum minister

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday ordered the permanent forfeiture of 56 houses linked to  former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs....

Effective border policing will promote made-in-Nigeria goods- Osinbajo

The Federal Government is partnering with neighbouring countries to ensure that the country’s porous borders are better policed to tackle smuggling and the...

Attacks Against Albinos for Body Parts, Profit Must Stop, Says UN

“When I was sleeping in my house, four people came and started attacking me with machetes,” said Mariama Staford, an albino in Tanzania....

Court strikes out EFCC’s charge against Diezani

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Abuja division of the Federal High Court Wednesday struck out a charge indicting former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke to the illegal diversion...

Diamond Bank Accused of N572,000 Theft From Pensioner

[dropcap]C[/dropcap]enturies ago banks actually stored real money (gold) and gave their customers paper receipts which made transferring and transporting easier. Then as time went...

Gunmen kidnap 19 bus passengers in Rivers state

[dropcap]G[/dropcap]unmen kidnapped 19 bus passengers  in Rivers state, police said on Friday, in the latest of a series of abductions in recent weeks....

Alleged corruption: SERAP asks Buhari to seek ICC arrest warrant for Diezani Alison-Madueke

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently “seek from the International Criminal Court an arrest warrant to...

Why suspended Babachir won’t return as SGF

[dropcap]P[/dropcap]resident Muhammadu Buhari is set to announce that the administration is pursuing disciplinary action against suspended  secretary to the federal government Babachir Lawal. Per...

Court rejects deposed Lagos monarch’s bail application, to remain in prison with wife

An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday dismissed an application filed by the deposed Baale of Shangisha, Mutiu Ogundare, seeking to vary his bail...

Notorious kidnap kingpin, Evans, 5 others arraigned in Lagos, plead guilty, remanded in prison

Notorious multi-billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans and five others were on Wednesday arraigned at an Ikeja High Court in Lagos several...

Former minister of petroleum Diezani loses N7.6b loot

The Federal High Court in Lagos Monday ordered the final forfeiture of N7.6billion allegedly stolen by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani...