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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Teenage girls raped in Sudan by armed combatants

Teenage girls are being sexually assaulted and raped by armed combatants in Sudan in alarming numbers, with many survivors aged between 12 and 17 years old, said Save the Children.

NAF airstrikes knock out terrorists’ enclaves, illegal oil refining sites 

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says its airstrikes on Friday knocked out known terrorists' camps in Borno and active illegal oil refining sites in Rivers.

ECOWAS Court deepens Cooperation with ICRC

Abuja, Nigeria - The ECOWAS Court of Justice and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) achieved a significant milestone on July 12,...

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.

NDLEA arrests wanted drug baron Suleiman Ganiu Aremu

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says it has arrested a wanted drug baron, Alhaji Suleiman Ganiu Aremu (a.k.a Barryshine) two years after...

3 dead, mob set Monarch’s Palace on fire

Angry youths in Naka, Benue State, on Tuesday, set fire to the palace of Ter Nagi, Chief Daniel Abomtse, and parts of the Gwer...
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