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‘I lost my soul’: the teenage girls lured by traffickers from Nigerian camps

  Traumatised refugee children are being enticed by tempting offers of escape from poverty, then sold into slavery – but survivors are fighting...

Buhari sacks Christian pilgrims board boss Ujah who is enmeshed in corruption

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate termination of appointment of Rev. Tor Ujah, as the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC)....

How Nigerian Fraudsters Swindled $46 Million From Across the World

They were charming, cunning and manipulative – the ultimate conmen. They viewed the world as a giant game board, and people especially women...

Police re-arrest notorious kidnapper, Hamisu Wadume

The operatives of the Nigeria Police have re-arrested the notorious kidnap kingpin, Alhaji Hamisu Bala Wadume, after his escape from the custody of...

Real reason Obono-Obla is in trouble with the Presidency

Activities and conduct of the Chairman of the Special Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla has been under...

EFCC raids home of former Zamfara governor Yari over economic and financial crimes

Agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,  raided the home of former Zamfara Governor, Abdulaziz Yari, over allegations of economic and...

Invite Akpabio, Misau over ‘diversion of constituency projects’, SERAP asks ICPC, EFCC

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has petitioned Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and...

Revealed! How herdsmen killed pregnant woman, three others in Plateau State

A pregnant mother of two children was among three others killed by herdsmen in Plateau state on the night of July 14 and...

Four men in hiding after death threats over facebook wedding in Kano

Four men in Kano have fled their homes after receiving death threats for organising a wedding on Facebook that was deemed offensive to...

Nigerian-born Ayoola Ajayi, arrested for murder, kidnapping of missing Utah student

A Nigerian born man was taken into custody last week for allegedly killing missing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck, according to the...

26-year-old man confesses to stabbing woman to death after sex in Lagos

A woman was fatally stabbed Monday in Amuwo Odofin, a suburb of Lagos state, Per Second News gathered. A 26-year-old man Bidemi Mojuba,...

Lai Mohammed to face court over claims he was misled by NBC DG in N2.5b money laundering scam

Prosecutors from the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), said the immediate past Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed...

Nigerian Cab driver killed in Boston was shot 9 times, Police say

Luckinson Oruma, 60,  a Nigerian national was shot last Tuesday just before 11 a.m. in front of the Colonnade Hotel, Boston. He was...

High Court sentences ex-NIMASA DG to seven years in prison

A Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced a former Acting Director-General of NIMASA, Calistus Obi, to seven years imprisonment for  N136 million...

Gbajabiamila Indicted For Stealing Client’s Settlement Money As U.S Records Reveals Age Fabrication

Femi Gbajabiamila, who is contesting for the speaker of the House of representatives was in 2007 indicted on multiple counts of embezzlement and...

Imo governor Okorocha under investigation by EFCC

The Governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, is under investigation according to the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim...