Law & Crime
Oil Theft: International Community Is Not Sincere With Nigeria By Ifeanyi Izeze
For the Federal Government to disclose that it has commenced efforts to recover huge oil revenues laundered abroad by companies involved in the growing incidents ...
ICPC Vs Ogbulafor: Court adjourns hearing to June 6
An Abuja High Court on Tuesday adjourned to June 6 hearing in the trial of former PDP Chairman, Vincent Ogbulafor, over alleged N107 million fraud. The ICPC ...
Police Parade Ex-Governor, Alao-Akala's Cleaner For Stealing
A Beninoise, Mr. Francise Kadibuwa, was on Monday paraded by the Oyo State Police Command, Eleyele, Ibadan for burgling the Bodija residence of former Governor ...
Tailor, 27 Breaks Into House From The Ceiling, Rapes 15-Year-Old Girl
A 27-year-old tailor, Sulaimon Jelili, has been arraigned before an Osogbo magistrate’s court for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl (name withheld). The charge sheet obtained ...
Should Asari-Dokubo be arrested?
The statement made last week by Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, that President Goodluck Jonathan must be allowed to ...
Nigerian Court Jails Iranian Accused of Importing Arms to Nigeria
Azim Aghajani, a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been found guilty of smuggling weapons into Lagos and sentenced to five years in prison by ...
20 Year Old Man Arraigned For Beating, Attempting To Use Mother For Ritual
A 20-year-old boy is standing trial for inflicting grave injuries on his mother. A 20-year-old man, Gbenga Adeniyi, who allegedly attempted to kill his biological mother ...
Court Orders Police To Vacate Obio/Akpor Secretariat
A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has ordered the police to vacate the Obior/Akpor Local government secretariat in Rivers State, South-South Nigeria.The court gave ...
Policemen On Rampage At UMTH, Shoot A Doctor, Beat Up Medical Staff To Coma
The University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, UMTH, was shut-down early today, Thursday, when policemen, who brought corpses of their colleagues that were killed in Bama ...
2 remanded for allegedly stabbing bailiffs
Ilorin – An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded an electrician, Nnamdi Nwosisi and Kudirat Adebayo, for allegedly stabbing two bailiffs while performing their lawful ...
Wife of Ex-Mimiko's Aide Kidnapped In Ondo
Recent reports confirmed that a 40-year-old woman, Mrs Adenike Ayewamide, wife of a popular Labour Party leader, Mr. Tunde Ayewamide, aka Doxology, has been kidnapped ...
NAFDAC arrests man with N106m worth of fake drugs
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has arrested a trader, Olisaemeka Osefoh, for importation of counterfeit medicines into Nigeria.The Director General ...
N4.7billion Scam: Court Strikes Out Babalakin's Application
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, struck out an application brought before it by counsel to Bi-Courtney Limited, O. ...
EFCC Press Release: Provost And Bursar Of Federal College Of Agriculture Docked For Fraud
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Maid docked for stealing N8.2million
By Onozure Dania A 38 year old house help Faith Okon, was Monday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate court, for allegedly stealing the sum of N8.2million, ...
Alleged N52m fraud: Ladipo market president gets N5m bail
An Ikeja High Court on Monday granted bail to Jonathan Okoli, President of Aguiyi Ironsi International Market otherwise known as Ladipo Market, standing trial for ...
Doctors in Ebonyi withdraw services over kidnap of colleague
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Ebonyi Chapter, on Monday said its members have withdrawn their services in all government and private hospitals in the state. The ...
Shettima Ali Monguno freed
Dr. Shetttima Ali monguno elder statesman regained freedom, returned home Monday morning under tight security from Marte -Chad border towns. First Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr. ...
Police arraign Babangida Aliyu for alleged theft
The police on Monday arraigned a 30-year-old electrician, Babangida Aliyu, in an Abuja Senior Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing an air-conditioner belonging to one Alhaji ...
Medical doctor kidnapped, security man shot dead in Ebonyi
BY PETER OKUTUABAKALIKI-A Consultant Paediatrician, Dr. Pius Chuka Manyaike with theFederal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, FETHA, was on Sunday afternoon at No. 15A Owerri Street, Abakaliki, the ...
Husband Beheads Wife For Infidelity
The World is Truly coming to an End!!!!!! According to reports, the woman in the picture above was beheaded by her husband for her infidelity, and ...
Alert: Dr Shettima Monguno Reportedly Kidnapped
3 May Posted May 3, 2013 by newsbytesnow in News. Leave a Comment Report reaching us say Dr Shettima Ali Monguno, a nationalist and first republic commissioner of Petroleum ...
Forgery: Fresh Charge May Be Filed Against 2 Journalists -PM News, Lagos
caption: Tony Amokoedo & Chibuizor Ukaibe It ...
Police Arrest Special Adviser to Kogi State Governor Over Okene Killings
The Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Command, Mr. Muhammed Katsina, on Thursday confirmed the arrest of a Special Adviser to Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya ... Full story
31-year-old woman stabs and kills fiance on wedding day
An eastern Pennsylvania woman who was supposed to be spending her first full day as a newlywed was instead in jail Sunday, accused of killing ... Full story
Bayelsa State Police officer arrested for killing driver
The Bayelsa State Police Command on Monday evening confirmed the arrest of a police officer attached to MOPOL 30 Squadron in connection with the killing ... Full story
Police Nab Suspected Kidnapper, Release 2 kids
WARRI—POLICE in Delta State have set free two kids; Master Udesen Akpere and Master Akposere Akpere, aged four years respectively, who were abducted in Amukolo ... Full story
OPC Warns Boko Haram Against Attacks in S’West
The Oodua Peoples Congress has warned the Boko Haram sect not to extend its activities to the South-West region to avoid reprisals capable of causing ... Full story
Murder of Monarch: Abia Police Arrest 20 Suspects
UMUAHIA—ABIA State Police Command has said no fewer than 20 suspects have been arrested in connection with the killing of the traditional ruler of Ugwuleru ... Full story
ICPC grills eight over Oyo N8.5b contract scam
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has interrogated another set of aides of the immediate past governor of Oyo State, Adebayo ...
Police arrest four kidnappers, conman in Enugu
*Rescue abducted UNN don’s wife By Tony Edike ENUGU – FOUR members of a notorious kidnap gang that has been terrorizing residents of the university town of ...
4 Killed In Ijora As Tricycle Operators, Youths Clash
At least four persons have been killed and several others injured, with many property damaged following the crisis that broke out between the executives of ...
Shun Corruption, Cleric Tells Lawmakers
Rev. Bosun Olugbodi of First Baptist Church, Ogbogbo in Ijebu-North East area of Ogun State, has advised members of the seventh National Assembly (NASS) to ...
Bankole granted bail, re-arrested
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA – Barely 10 minutes after Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High Court in Abuja, Monday, released the embattled former speaker of ...
EFCC arrests former deputy speaker, Nafada
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday arrested the immediate ...
Kidnap of hunchbacked student sets Ogun university town on edge
The kidnap of an undergraduate of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, ...
Security intensifies effort to release 5 kidnapped corps members
By Jimitota Onoyume Port Harcourt-Security operatives in Rivers State have intensified effort to secure the release of five corps members allegedly kidnapped at Ikwerre Local Government ...
Shun corruption, Katsina-Alu tells judicial officers
BY IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI ABUJA-For the judiciary to retain its pride of place in the present democratic setting, judicial officers across the country must avoid bribery and ...
T.B. Joshua: "I Would Have Halted President Mills' Death If..."
Founder and General Overseer of the Synagogue Church, Prophet T.B. Joshua says in an unusual manner, God did not reveal the death of Ghana’s President, ... Full story
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Flash: Today’s Robust Football Gists In One Swoop!
18 May Posted May 18, 2013 by newsbytesnow in Sports. Tagged: FA, Football, League, sports, Transfers. Leave a Comment AC Milan are expecting Robinho to remain at the club despite ...
A Must-Read! Boko Haram & The Emergency Rule: What Many Do Not Know By Ahmadu Jirgi
Leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau Nothing has changed for the better since June last year when the first emergency rule in some parts ...
Mislead, Mistrust, Misinform, Misunderstanding -Why Most Nigerians Do Not Trust President Jonathan And His Administration By Charles Omole
As the Cuban missile crisis raged in October 1962; the US president sat in the White House and called the leaders of the key nations ...
N58.9 Trillion Oil Deal: HEDA Urges Human Rights Commission to Investigate Petroleum Minister Alison-Madueke and Shell Petroleum
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Delta Council Chairman In Physical Brawl With Scribe In Hotel Over N73 Million Largesse
By SaharaReporters, New York The transition committee chairman of Ughelli ...
Nigeria Police "Repel" Hoodlums Attack In Daura, Katsina State
By SaharaReporters, New York There are conflicting reports emanating from ...
Of State Of Emergency And Criticisms By Chiechefulam Ikebuiro
The recent declaration of state of emergency by the President Goodluck-led government on Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states as far as I am concerned is ...
Why Former IGP Mike Okiro Is Unfit To Chair Police Service Commission-NOPRIN
caption: Former Police IGP Mike Okiro ...
Nigerian Pastor Entices New Members With N5,000 Cash
That church ministries in Nigeria is a serious business is not in doubt. It’s amazingly shocking to know that men of God have now channeled ...