The Anambra State Police Command has arrested two suspects in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a female bank manager, whose lifeless body was discovered earlier this year after a ransom of fourteen million naira (N14m) had been paid by her family. Two suspects; Monday Egbe, 32, and Kenneth Nnoga, 28 were arrested on May 28, 2025, by operatives of the Command during a covert operation that led investigators to the suspects’ hideout in a neighboring state. Confirming the arrest in a statement issued on June 1, 2025, the Police Public Relations Officer in Anambra, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, recalled…
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP Nigeria, has filed a lawsuit against the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC Limited for failing to account for the alleged missing ₦500 billion, which the company reportedly did not remit to the Federation Account between October and December 2024. The lawsuit comes in response to recent World Bank allegations that out of the ₦1.1 trillion generated from crude oil sales and other revenues in 2024, NNPC Limited remitted only ₦600 billion—leaving a shortfall of ₦500 billion unaccounted for. SERAP NIGERIA: NNPC Response to F.O.I In response to SERAP’s Freedom of Information, FoI request,…
The Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, on Friday handed over a native doctor, Obi Obieze, alias E-Dey-Play-E-Dey-Show to the Lagos State Police Command after he was arrested while attempting to flee the country through the Badagry-Seme border. During the handover to the Police, the suspect was seen masked and restrained with both hand and leg cuffs. Nigerian Immigration latest news today gathered that the Comptroller of Immigration for the Lagos State Command, Mr. David Adebambo, officially handed over the suspect to the Commissioner of Police, Lagos, CP Olohundare Jimoh Moshood at the State Command Headquarters in Ikeja.Journalists who covered the handover…
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, has formally invited social media personality, Darlington Okoye, popularly known as Speed Darlington, with the Instagram handle @speeddarlintv for clarification over online content allegedly involving sexual offences with minors. In a letter dated 28th May, 2025 and addressed to Mr. Okoye, the agency cited specific video materials recently circulated online. According to the document, one of the videos allegedly shows Mr. Okoye making statements in which he admitted to having engaged in sexual acts with an underage girl. The agency further stated that additional archived videos, which are currently…
The immediate past Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, has congratulated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his second year in office, describing him as a “father of the nation” and a “dynamic and visionary leader.” In a statement personally signed by her on Wednesday, Dr. Betta Edu commended the President’s dedication and resilience in steering the country through what she described as a difficult but transformative period. Betta Edu congratulatory message “Mr. President, Father of the Nation! I join millions of Nigerians and members of our great party, the All Progressives Congress, APC to heartily congratulate…
STATEHOUSE PRESS STATEMENT WE HAVE MADE UNDENIABLE PROGRESS: PRESIDENT BOLA TINUBU’S STATEMENT ON THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ADMINISTRATION ON MAY 29, 2025 Fellow Nigerians, as we mark the second anniversary of our administration, I salute your resilience and undaunted spirit. Two years ago, you entrusted me with the sacred responsibility to lead our nation at a time of historic challenges. Together, we have faced these headwinds with courage and determination. The economic and general situation of the country I inherited required that we redirect the country’s affairs with a bold and new vision. I immediately implemented two necessary policies…
For receiving double salaries, a Lagos State civil servant, Mr. Emmanuel Ogunyemi, was sentenced to pay a fine of ₦1,500,000 on Tuesday. He was also required to execute a good behaviour bond valued at ₦5,000,000, which would be forfeited in the event of any future misconduct. He was sentenced by Justice Ismail Ijelu of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, after he pleaded guilty to an amended three-count charges brought against him by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC for receiving double salaries. According to the Commission, the act contravenes the Corrupt Practices and Other Related…
For having sex with his 15-year-old daughter, (name withheld) a 61-year-old father, Abayomi Abraham, has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment on Wednesday by Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja. The victim’s father was sentenced after he pleaded guilty to an ammended one count charge of sexual assault by penetration. He was initially charged with a four-count of defilement, sexual assault by penetration, attempt to procure an abortion, and indecent treatment of a child. The sexagenarian had initially been arraigned on February 21, 2024 in which he had pleaded not guilty to. However, the…
A former Group Executive Director in Corporate and International Banking at Union Bank, Mr. Austine Obigwe testified in the ongoing trial of the former Managing Director of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, and four other defendants as he detailed how he wrote off a $2.3 million debt owed by Arik Air to his private company, Staal. He gave his testimony on Wednesday before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC charged the defendants to court for allegedly defrauding Arik Air of N76 billion and $31.5 million. The other defendants…
A Prosecution Witness with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Alvan Grumnaan, has narrated before Justice Rahman Oshodi how an aide to the embattled former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, received a total sum of $17.1 million over a three-year period. The Head of Special Duty 77 (Special Operations Team) who claimed to have investigated the defendants the alleged abuse of office, $4.5 billion and N2.8 billion fraud preferred against Emefiele and his co-defendent, Henry Omoile, testified on Tuesday. Grumnaan while being led in evidence-in-chief by the EFCC Prosecution Counsel, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN, before a…