Police in Anambra State have arrested four suspects in connection to the attack on a political event of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, at Isuofia, in Aguata local government area. The political event was called by former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, and three policemen attached to him were killed in…
The Nigerian Bar Association is to investigate a case of assault of a security guard by the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Yakubu Umar. The NBA’s move is in response to a trending video on social media in which the CCT Chairman is seen physically assaulting a security guard at Banex Plaza in Wuse…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested thirty-four suspected internet fraudsters in Lagos and Ibadan, Oyo State. Ten of the suspects were arrested on Tuesday at Horizon Estate, Meadow Hall Way, in Lekki, Lagos. Twenty-four others were picked up by EFCC operatives around the Apete area of Ibadan, Oyo State. The suspects are accused…
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has started a fifteen-day working vacation. This was confirmed in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Richard Olatunde. The statement noted that the vacation is the first part of Governor AKEREDOLU’s 2021 Annual Leave. Olatunde also disclosed that Governor Akeredolu had notified the State House of Assembly…
The Ogun State government has launched its own version of the Western Security Network, also known as Operation Amotekun. This comes more than a year after the Ogun State Security Network Agency and Amotekun Corps Law was signed on March 24, 2020. The State Government also unveiled several patrol vans and motorcycles to boost the operations of…
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja, has jailed one Olaniyi Ogungbaiye for eight years for internet fraud. The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission dragged Ogungbaiye before the court on two counts of receiving stolen property and fraud. Ogungbaiye pleaded not guilty to the charges, but Justice…