The Nigerian Correctional Service has said that six inmates who escaped during the attack at the correction facility in Owerri, Imo state on Monday, April 5, have voluntarily returned while 35 others refused to escape from custody during the attack. The acting Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS, John Mrabure, disclosed this in…
The leader of a bandit group in Zamfara state has been killed by officers attached to operation Puff Adder II, with an AK47, a military uniform, and a motorcycle recovered from him. A statement by Mohammed Shehu, the spokesman of the state police command, said police operatives were on a routine patrol on Sunday, April 4…
The UK’s Metropolitan Police is investigating allegations a serving male officer raped two female colleagues. Three years after the allegations were made, a BBC investigation with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that the officer was not charged or suspended, but will face a misconduct hearing. Both women were reportedly involved in ‘abusive’ relationships…
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that the biggest threat to the peace and stability of Nigeria is the “plan by some hardliners in the Federal government to kill or arrest” Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho. Igboho has been pushing for the actualization of Oduduwa republic, a country for South Westerners. He was also in the…
A jailed paedophile teacher who targeted teenage boys choked to death on his prison breakfast, an inquest heard. John McKno, 74, was jailed in 2016 after abusing five pupils at boarding schools in Suffolk, Devon, and Worcestershire in the 1970s and 1980s. He died at Norwich Prison on September 29 from “cardiac failure”…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has announced that it will be investigating the assault scandal involving the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Yakubu Umar. Recall that the CCT Chairman was seen in a viral video assaulting a security guard at Banex Plaza in Wuse, Abuja. This generated an outcry on social media. The…
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has discharged politician and media mogul, Raymond Dokpesi and his firm, Daar Investment and Holding Company Limited, of the charges of money laundering brought against him in the N2.1 billion Dasuki trial. Col Sambo Dasuki who was the National Security Adviser (NSA) during the Jonathan administration has been…
The deadline for NIN-SIM linkage has been extended from April 6 to May 6, 2021 by the federal government. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami said in a statement on Friday April 2 that the request for the extension was presented to President Muhammadu Buhari and he endorsed it. Pantami also…
The rescued victims Three victims of a kidnap syndicate who were abducted along Siun/Ajura road in Ogere Remo area of Ogun State have been rescued by operatives of Ogun state police command. The three victims; Jibril Afolabi, Amusat Taofeek and Balikis Mohammed, were coming from Ilorin, the Kwara state capital and were heading to Owode…
A Federal High Court in Lagos State has barred the Federal Government from blocking SIM cards not linked to National Identity Numbers (NIN), come April. The Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy had, through the Nigerian Communications Commission, asked operators to block all SIM cards not linked to NIN by April 9, 2021. …
