Nigeria and the United States on Thursday signed an agreement for the repatriation of $954,000 which formed part of looted assets recovered from the late former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha.   The Solicitor General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice, Mrs. Beatrice Jedy-Agba signed for Nigeria, while the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard ...

Pandemonium broke out in Alaba International Market, Ojo area of Lagos State on Wednesday, when some aggrieved traders protested extortion by members of Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, in the area. This came just as a group of physically-challenged people blocked both sides of the National Stadium roads, along Funsho Williams Avenue, formerly Western Avenue, in Surulere Local ...

Arrested notorious Bayelsa state kidnapper, John Lion has said that he made only N1.5m from kidnapping. Recall that the kidnap kingpin was arrested on Saturday in Abuja by the Federal Capital Territory Police Command. Naija News reported that the suspect, who was traced and arrested in Abuja, is among the kidnap gangs terrorising Bayelsa State and its environs. John Lion, who was paraded alongside three members ...

Police in Lagos State have seized a large cache of ammunition in two commercial buses and arrested three persons found with the consignment. Police spokesman in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin confirmed the seizure and arrest in a statement he issued on Saturday. Hundeyin stated that police operatives from Ikorodu Division who intercepted the ammunition also discovered three dismantled motorcycles ...

Two young men, Thankgod Obadia, 18 and Ganiyawa Danzaria, 22, are in police custody for allegedly collecting N2,000 to kill an 85-year-old man, Sunday Leke, accused of practicing witchcraft in Adamawa State. The duo was reportedly contracted by one Gahurbiu Man to kill the octogenarian whom she accused of bewitching her son. Upon receipt of the N2,000 part payment out ...

Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate for the 2023 election, claimed that he had been told multiple times that a certain group of people was after his life. He made this known in an interview session with Njenje Media TV. He said, “I have been told several times, ‘Peter, these people are going to kill you, don’t do what ...

The spokesperson for the Kaduna-based cleric, Ahmad Gumi, Tukur Mamu, is currently being interrogated by the Department of State Services (DSS) over security matters in parts of the country. Manu, who is the Publisher of Desert Herald Newspaper in Kaduna, allegedly negotiated the release of some of the victims of the March 2022 Kaduna Train attack. He was arrested in ...

…. As Prof Mojisola Adeyeye reiterates Call for Stiffer Penalty For Offenders The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control NAFDAC has secured a judgement of three years jail term fine against a falsified drugs merchant at the Federal High Court, Kano, Kano State. In a statement signed by the Resident Media Consultant of NAFDAC, Sayo Akintola, in ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC has apprehended a 32-year-old businessman, Obinna Igbo, for alleged importation and sale of fake Amanta Forte, an unregistered anti-malarial drug. Mr. Igbo has however, been arraigned before a Federal High Court on four counts of unlawful importation, possession, sale, and distribution of fake Amanta Forte soft gel (Artemether 80mg ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday barricaded the home of the former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha in Abuja. The operatives of the anti-graft agency brought in reinforcements to break the doors of the former governor’s house, after resisting arrest. The Maitama home of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant was stormed by the EFCC over ...