Crime

A clash between farmers and Fulani herdsmen has been reported in Ogga, Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State.

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Tayo Olanipekun The U.S. government has said a lesson it learnt in the last 10 years in the efforts geared toward fighting corruption and money laundering is that “criminals are getting better and better at hiding their assets and hiding their crimes.” This is as its Department of Justice has, through the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) programs on …

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Barely one week after a gospel artiste committed suicide in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, another young Nigerian has taken his own life in Bayelsa State. This time, a 300 level student of the Niger Delta University, Amasoma, Bayelsa State, Uzakah Timi Ebiweni, committed suicide after failing his MBBS Examination. The late Ebiweni and 21 others failed beyond the level that …

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Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, the Federal capital territory of Nigeria  has directed United Bank for Africa Plc UBA to make public the winding up petition filed against a limited liability company KEPCO ENERGY RESOURCES  NIGERIA LIMITED (RC 6900064) over the inability of the company to pay a debt of N15,221,674,976.4.

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Folake Sokoya A 52-year-old suspected fraudster,  Tayo Ogunmola, is presently cooling his heels in the detention cell of the Ogun State Police Command for making an attempt to swindle the command’s Commissioner Of Police, CP Bashir Makama. The suspect was arrested after a phone call he made to the CP, pretending to be an old herbalist who mistakenly sent a …

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Bayo Akinloye A total of 894 children, including 106 girls, were released from the ranks of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) in Maiduguri, north-east Nigeria today, as part of its commitment to end and prevent the recruitment and use of children. The CJTF is a local militia that helps the Nigerian security forces in the fight against insurgency in north-east …

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Tayo Olanipekun Agencies of the Nigerian government assisted the United States of America in the arrest and successful extradition of a Pakistani national charged with drug trafficking and money laundering, U.S Mission to Nigeria has said. The Nigerian Federal Ministry of Justice with the prosecutors from the Central Authority Unit (CAU) and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) made …

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A Chief Magistrates' Court, sitting in Minna, Niger State capital,  has sentenced a 50-year-old man, Sani Yusuf, to eight years imprisonment for violating  a 14-year-old girl.

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The Kaduna State government has announced the imposition of a 24-hour curfew on troubled Kajuru Local Government Area of the state, Channels Television has reported. The curfew is not unconnected with recent insecurity in the area. Also a rumoured fresh crisis said to be brewing in  Kasuwan Magani community, one of the crisis-prone areas in the council  has prompted the …

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After what he described as a bloody Easter, a United States-based human rights lawyer, Emmanuel Ogebe, has recounted the bloodbath across Nigeria during the Christian celebrations. According to Ogebe, a fact finding mission across Nigeria has revealed several attacks that led to loss of lives during the holy week and Easter. “After a human rights fact-finding mission to South South, …

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