CRIME

Events in the past few weeks have left no one in doubt that the Buhari administration has set the stage for the prosecution of its promised war against corruption. First, in an apparent move to […]

  The tempo of the much orchestrated war against corruption was upped last week when President Buhari gave assurance that those fingered to have looted the funds of this nation would be arraigned at the […]

Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Boko Haram sect, has broken his five-month silence, refuting the report of his death in an audio message posted on social media on Sunday. Describing President Idris Deby of Chad […]

The British government has denied allegations that it aids corruption in Nigeria, saying it is committed to repatriating Nigeria’s looted funds kept in the country. The denial was made following an allegation by a United […]

“As Petroleum Minister under General Olusegun Obasanjo in the 970s, I could not travel abroad until I had taken a memo to the Federal Executive Council asking for estacode. Now, everybody does what he wants” […]

The chances of Nigeria recover­ing stolen oil funds brightened recently as President Muham­madu Buhari disclosed that his administration had identified countries, banks and other financial institutions where payments for the stolen monies were deposited. The […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the immediate past Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency [NIMASA], Patrick Ziakede Akpobolokemi, two weeks after he was fired from his post. A […]

A prophet, Destiny Onwudinjo, of Heaven Divine Ministry, in Shasha, a suburb of Lagos, western Nigeria, has committed suicide inside Kirikiri Prison. He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment without an option of fine for […]

One of Nigeria’s foremost celebrities, Onyeka Onwenu, has been accused of demanding and collecting kickbacks through her personal assistant, Chika Abazu, from a contractor employed to carry out renovation works at the National Centre for […]

Repetition is a powerful weapon in the hands of a spin doctor, and a body known as the Nigerian Human Rights Community (NHRC) is using it for the purpose of laundering the image of the […]

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission appears reinvigorated and rejuvenated for its traditional role of fighting economic and financial crimes. It seems to be experiencing a new lease of life in the manner it has […]

Female suicide bombers are becoming a common sight in Nigeria nowadays especially in the North Eastern part of Nigeria where Boko Haram has continued their deadly terrorist campaign with horrible ferocity. I wish to draw […]

IN the last one month or thereabout, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has lost three high profile court cases. The cases which had generated public interests like similar ones in the past involved […]

The Coroners Court investigating the building that collapsed within the premises of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, today recommended that the contractor who built the guest house should be investigated and tried for […]

Ex-Minister of Aviation and campaign spokesman for former President Goodluck Jonathan caused panic and triggered anxiety today when he arrived at the 5-star Wheatbaker Hotel in Lagos with 15 heavily armed policemen. The hotel is […]

• Again, natural justice loses to technical justice The recent discharge, on technical grounds, of Mr. Francis Atuche, former Managing Director of Bank PHB, bodes ill for the justice system and for the nation as […]

SaharaReporters has learned that former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio has brazenly refused to leave the Governor’s mansion of the State. Sources close to the current government have said that Akpabio has moved […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, western Nigeria, this morning further adjourned till 1 July, 2015 to deliver judgment in a money laundering case against fomer Aviation minister and PDP chieftain, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode. The […]

“Chief Bode George bought our operational bus for us and stocked the vehicle with arms and ammunition whenever we were going on operation to confront our opponents.” This was the claim of one of the […]