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Looted Funds: At least 3 governors on EFCC watchlist, says Bawa
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Thursday said that the anti-corruption agency has placed several governors on...
19 Islamic terrorists declared wanted
No fewer than 19 Islamic terrorists allegedly responsible for terrorizing President Muhammadu Buhari’s home state, Katsina, and neighbouring Zamfara State have been declared...
Convicted fraudster Hushpuppi removed from Instagram ahead of sentencing
A Nigerian social media influencer Ramon Abbas known as Hushpuppi who was arrested in Dubai for financial crimes costing tens of millions of...
EFCC records 2,700 convictions in 2022, highest since inception — Bawa
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday disclosed that it has recorded over 2,701 financial crimes convictions as of October 7,...
Associate Professor, daughter, busted for aggravated assault of female student
A lecturer at the Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State, Dr Fred Ekpa Ayokhai, and his daughter, Emmanuela, are now in police net for...
Busted! Lagos billionaire drug baron, N8bn tramadol seized
Another billionaire drug baron has been busted in Lagos, this time in Lekki on the Lagos island, about two weeks after the biggest...
Unspeakable horrors: Two women’s corpses buried in hospital medical director’s office
The remains of two females have been exhumed from a shallow grave in the office of the Chief Medical Director of Kwara State-owned...
$9.6bn P&ID fraud: Arrest British man, James Nolan, court orders
For jumping bail and failing to appear in court for trial, a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday issued a bench warrant...
Alleged assault on policewoman: MKO Abiola’s widow and lawyer, Prof. Duke-Abiola, remanded in prison
For allegedly assaulting a policewoman, Prof. Zainab Duke-Abiola, lawyer and human rights activist and one of the widows of Chief MKO Abiola, was...
RCCG pastor bags two years in jail for issuing $1.6m dud cheque
Guilt-racked Ayodeji Oluokun, a Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), City of David Parish, Victoria Island, Lagos, has been convicted...
Dismissed DSS officer turned robber, nine others nabbed over bullion van robbery
A dismissed officer from Department of State Services (DSS), Prosper Israel, has been busted for allegedly attacking and robbing a bank’s bullion van...
NDLEA records historic, biggest drug hauls in Lagos of N194.77bn
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Monday seized illicit drugs worth $278. 25 million (N194.77 billion) at a Lagos warehouse, the...
Breaking: Billionaire kidnap kingpin, Evans, accomplice jailed 21 years
Convicted billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans and his accomplice, Victor Aduba, are to spend the next 21 years in prison, a...
Horror! Jealous Chinese national knifes Nigerian heartthrob, Buhari, to death
A Chinese man has fatally stabbed his lover, 23-year-old Ummakulsum Sani Buhari, at her parents’ house in Kano, Persecondnews reports. The gory incident...
Gunmen kill Church security guard, kidnap Pastor
James Ngyang, a member of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) has revealed how armed men killed a guard and abducted the...
Horrendous! Ondo Govt. Director decapitated, intestines removed
Some yet-to-be apprehended people have snuffed a senior government official in Akure, Ondo State capital, with his head severed, three days after he...
