CRIME

The House of Representatives’ ad hoc committee set up to investigate the abandoned Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras project recently visited the switch centre at the Nigeria Police headquarters in Abuja. It was not a […]

The tide may be beginning to turn and the fight against corruption would seem to have started yielding some results. A statement on this was made the other day when a former accountant with the […]

There was panic in the creeks of Bayelsa State following sudden presence of fighter jets and surveillance aircrafts which hovered in some coastal communities in search of hideouts of the militant group, Niger Delta Avengers […]

Soldiers, suspected to be operatives of the Joint Task Force, on Monday morning, invaded the home of the father of the wanted ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, carting away what sources […]

Ex-minister’s accounts frozen As part of the ongoing probe and preparation for the arraignment of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, some investigators from the United Kingdom have visited Nigeria to gather […]

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday promised that his administration would continue to respect the principle of separation of power as enshrined in the constitution. Buhari also called the attention of the lawmakers to some bills […]

Ten suspected members of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) – the group of militants smashing oil facilities in the Niger Delta – have been arrested in Delta State. Besides, a military patrol team prevented some […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission( EFCC) has traced the diversion of the substantial part of the missing $20billion oil cash  to the 2015 electioneering campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The anti-graft agency […]

Suspected hoodlums on Sunday abducted and killed a doctor with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos, Thomas Adekoya-Cole, in the Itele area of Ijebu, Ogun State. PUNCH Metro gathered that 60-year-old Adekoya-Cole, a consultant […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has released the Managing Director of Fidelity Bank, Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo, who was arrested last Wednesday for allegedly helping a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, to launder […]

A former court registrar got 10 years for an $8.4 million scam and a secondary school leaver bagged 37 years for defrauding an American of $40million. These and many others, including former Nigeria Maritime Administration […]

As part of the ongoing probe of the laundering of over $200billion loot in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by former political office holders, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) yesterday […]

The National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, and the  leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, lost their separate appeals with respect to their ongoing trials before […]

Prosecution witness, Mr. Michael Wetkas, in the ongoing trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, before the Code of Conduct Bureau, said on Wednesday that some landed assets bearing the names of some companies […]

A former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has written the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission demanding damages of N500m from the commission and the retraction of a publication where he was declared […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to charge the Managing Director of Fidelity Bank Plc, Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo, over a fresh revelation that he allegedly helped a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani […]

A former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, was on Tuesday declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over a N700m contract he (Omisore) allegedly received from the embattled former National […]

The Federal Government closed its case against a former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Godsday Orubebe, before the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja, after the first prosecution witness, Mr. Samuel Madojemu, completed his […]