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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Seun Kuti in police net after assault of officer

The Police Command in Lagos on Monday arrested Afrobeats musician, Seun Kuti over an alleged assault on a Police Officer.

How Lagos PDP Chair regains freedom from kidnappers

Mr Philip Aivoji, the abducted Lagos State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been released from kidnappers' den. Alhaji Hakeem Amode, the party's...

Why Chef is docked over alleged threat to kill man

A 30-year-old cook, Chibuzor Anasi, was on Tuesday arraigned before an Upper Area court, Karu, Abuja, for allegedly threatening to kill his neighbours.

SGBV: FG to review 2017 national policy on justice

The Federal Government says it will review the 2017 national policy on justice in order to encapsulate Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) matters.

UN report directs Sri Lanka over enforced disappearances

Lagos, May 17, 2024 – A UN Human Rights Office report has urged Sri Lanka’s Government to take meaningful action to determine and disclose the...

Why court sentenced pastor to death for killing choir mistress

It was a sober moment for one pastor Chidiebere Okoroafor, as he was sentenced to death by hanging for murdering his church’s choir mistress by a High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State
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