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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Why Murtala Muhammed’s family advocates for victims’ rights legislation

Thirty years after their son's murder, the family of the late former Head of State, Gen. Murtala Muhammed, has expressed profound dissatisfaction with the prosecution of murder trials in Nigeria.

Nigeria in total collapse because no consequence for culprits – Ezekwesili

President of Human Capital Africa, Obi Ezekwesili, says the Nigerian state is broken down and in total collapse because the perpetrators of crimes in the society, do not face the consequences of their actions.

2 businessmen arrested for drug trafficking in Lagos – NDLEA

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested two businessmen for attempting to import and export cocaine pellets and parcels of...

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.

Shocking: Lagos PDP Chairman kidnapped, abductors demand N200m ransom

The Lagos State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon Philip Aivoji, has been kidnapped. It was gathered that Hon. Aivoji was kidnapped on...
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