Category: Metro
Magu writes Salami panel, denies fraud charges
The suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has formally written to the Ayo Salami-led preside [...]
Ex-NIMASA director, Agaba bags 7-year jail term for N1.5bn fraud
Ezekiel Bala Agaba, a former executive director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)), has been sentenced to seven years [...]
Court grants comedienne, Adeherself N500,000 bail in fraud case
Instagram comedienne, Adedamola Adewale popularly known as Adeherself has been granted bail of N500,000 by an Ikeja Special Offences Court. Adeherself [...]
Senate passes bill recognizing males as rape victims
The Senate has passed a bill amending the criminal code, to remove gender restrictions in the issue of rape, and recognise males as rape victims too. [...]
Deaconess who battered teenager with hot knife in genital area, pleads guilty, remanded in prison
Yemi Awolola, a deaconess with the Living Faith Church also known as Winners' Chapel, who brutalised a 14-year-old girl put in her care with a hot kni [...]
Kano Assembly adopt castration as punishment for rape
The Kano State House of Assembly has begun a process to further amend the State’s Penal Code amendment (No.12), Law of 2014 to provide for castration [...]
How female Air Force helicopter pilot died in freak accident
More details have emerged about the demise of Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, who died at the Nigeria [...]
Magu regains freedom after 10 days in detention
The suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has been released from police custody after 10 days in de [...]
Buhari suspends EFCC secretary, 10 other senior officials
President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended no fewer than 11 senior officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, including the secretary of [...]
Police rescue soldiers abducted by Boko Haram
Two soldiers abducted by suspected Boko Haram insurgents along Auno road in Borno state, have been rescued by policemen, TheCable is reporting.
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