Crime

How ex-NNPC GM was jailed in US for $2.1m bribe

A former senior official of Nigeria’s national oil company has been sentenced to more than seven years in a United States prison for his role in a multimillion-dollar bribery...

Nigeria: Saving judicial appointments from corruption

By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu For nearly five years, Abia State has been the site of a bewildering contest over the...

HEDA petitioned FRIN boss to EFCC over alleged N3bn fraud

The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),...

LAWMA secures convictions for 19 environmental offenders

Seventeen persons arrested for open urination and defecation, along with two others apprehended for indiscriminate dumping of refuse,...

HEDA commends ICPC as Ozekhome faces forgery charges…

The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has commended the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related...
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Enugu records drop in crime, launches Security Trust Fund

Enugu State has witnessed a substantial decrease in crime rate over the past 20 months, with the state government attributing this success to its...

Chigbo, Realnews Publisher, loses elder sister to kidnappers in Abuja

The Chigbo family has announced the death of Princess Nwamaka Mediatrix Chigbo, an Abuja-based lawyer at the hands of still-to-be-identified kidnappers in the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory...

Juju master Akwa Okuko arrested for alleged kidnap links

Men of the Anambra State vigilante operatives, known as Agunechemba, have arrested a popular celebrity 'juju master', Akwa Okuko Tiwaraki n'Oba. According to a...

Parents, schools need to join fight against drug – Rescue Nigeria

Nigeria is facing a fast-spreading scourge of substance abuse among the young population - higher than the global average and requires a concerted effort to reverse - in a dark world not navigated by parents, guardians or schools.

US court sentences Nigerian man to over 5 years in prison for defrauding widow

Akindele posed as a wealthy Italian American businessman, “Frank Labato,” on a dating website, where he met a widowed Colorado woman. Adetomiwa Seun Akindele, a...

German President urges unity after Christmas market attack

Germany’s president said Tuesday that a deadly car-ramming attack on a Christmas market had cast a “dark shadow” over this year’s celebrations but urged...
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