The Office of former Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has firmly dismissed claims that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was not served with a subsisting court order, insisting that due process was followed and that the anti-graft agency is fully aware of the directive. In...
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All Democratic Alliance (ADA) has strongly condemned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over its refusal to register the association as a political party, describing the decision as unjust, premeditated and dangerous to Nigeria’s democratic growth. In a statement issued on Wednesday, December 25, 2025, and signed by its...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will, on Wednesday, arraign Yakubu Adamu, Commissioner of Finance, Bauchi State, over alleged N4.6 billion money laundering. Adamu, alongside a firm, Ayab Agro Products and Freight Company Ltd, will be arraigned before Justice Emeka Nwite at the Federal High Court in Abuja on...
A prosecution witness 3, PW3, Dajok Dakung Godfrey, in the ongoing trial of Okewole Dayo and Bishop Jonas Katung, on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, narrated before Justice Sharon T. Ishaya of the Federal High Court, Jos, Plateau State, how he was allegedly defrauded of his hard-earned savings by the...
Mr I.I. Okim, lawyer to Dantata & Sawoe Construction Company Limited, has said that the company has finally paid in full the $1.4 million owed to Zutari Consulting Nigeria Ltd for subcontract work on the Dangote Fertilizer Plant project in Lekki, Lagos. Okim made this known in a motion...
In an extraordinary twist straight out of a village folktale, a High Court in Uyo has ruled in favour of a masquerade who was arrested by police for performing traditional rites during the festive season. The masquerade, identified as Mr. Effiong, found himself on the wrong side of an...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on December 3, 2025 arraigned Mohammed Suleiman Kumo before Justice H.H. Kereng of the Gombe High Court sitting in Gombe. Kumo, a Magistrate, was arraigned on three count- charges bordering on extortion and bribery by the Gombe Zonal Directorate of the EFCC. Count...
BY PAUL ADAJI A new dimension has been introduced in the ongoing investigation and prosecution involving Ms Uche David Obinali, also known as Uche Edwin Emedo, a niece of former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, who is being questioned by police over an alleged ₦127 million fraud. Ms Obinali...
The judgment creditors (Peter Orngu and 13 others) and Tiv traditional rulers from the Sankera and Kwande axis of Benue State, North-Central Nigeria, have petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Makurdi Zonal Office, over the alleged fraudulent collection of N8 billion by Hon. Eze Nwa of Rhemalaw...
A prosecution witness, Alvan Gurumnaan, in the ongoing trial of a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele, and Henry Omoile, over an alleged $4.5bn fraud, has told Justice Rahman Oshodi of Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos that Omoile did not make his...
Kano State High Court, on Monday, sentenced a 22-year-old man, Najibullah Alkasim, 22, to death by hanging for stabbing one Isyaku Ya’u, to death with a screw driver. Alkasim, who lives at Dakata Quarters, Nasarawa Local Government Area was convicted on a one-count charge of culpable homicide. Delivering judgment,...
A new case of alleged land fraud has emerged against Uche Edwin Emedo (also known as Uche David Obinali), the niece of former Imo State Governor, Senator Rochas Okorocha. According to the First Information Report (FIR) filed on 14 June 2024 at the Magistrate Court of the Federal Capital...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Friday, November 28, 2025, presented its fourth prosecution witness, PW4, Bawa Usman Kaltungo, in the ongoing trial of a former Managing Director of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Ahmed Kuru, over an alleged N76bn and $31.5 million fraud before Justice...
High Court in Kano State on Wednesday adjourned the trial of former governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, and seven others until Feb.3, 2026 for hearing of all pending motions. NAN reports that the Kano State Government instituted an 11-count charge bordering on bribery, conspiracy, misappropriation, and diversion of public funds...
Fresh revelations emerged on Tuesday at the Federal High Court in Abuja as a Department of State Services (DSS) investigator detailed how alleged terrorist negotiator, Tukur Mamu, was offered a ₦50 million share from ransom money linked to the 2022 Abuja–Kaduna train attack. Testifying behind a protective screen for...
High Court in Ibadan has handed down the ultimate sentence to five men found guilty of killing a taxi driver during a violent confrontation in 2024. Justice Oyeyemi Ajayi of the Oyo State High Court, delivering judgment on Monday, ruled that Segun Taiwo (36), Kehinde Ademola (46), Yahaya Adeniyi...
A key witness in the ongoing trial of former Minister of Power and Steel, Dr. Olu Agunloye, on Monday admitted he could not confirm whether the controversial Mambilla power project award letter was forged. Testifying before an FCT High Court in Apo, Abuja, Assistant Commissioner of Police Umar Babangida—who...
Barely six months after 10 Thai sailors and their ship were convicted and fined $4.3million for bringing 32.9kg cocaine into Nigeria, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have again intercepted another commodity laden vessel- MV Nord Bosporus marked 9760110 from the port of Santos in Brazil...
A Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos, has slammed two men, Hamza Zakaria and Nurudeen Mohammed Ibrahim, with jail terms after they admitted to playing key roles in a staggering ₦8.56 billion cyber-fraud that compromised the computer systems of a new-generation bank. Justice Rahman Oshodi delivered the verdict on...
A contractor, Chief Uzo Nwosu, has told an FCT Customary Court that he had a sexual relationship with the family’s housemaid because his wife allegedly refused him conjugal access. Nwosu made this claim before a three-member panel chaired by Hadiza Attah while responding to his wife Rebecca’s application asking...