Category: Crime and Justics

Residents of Ilorin have been left in shock following the arrest of a 25-year-old man, Abdulrahman M. Bello, over the gruesome murder of 24-year-old Yetunde Hafsat Lawal, allegedly for money rituals. The Kwara State Police Command confirmed the arrest, stating that it followed a distress report by the victim’s father, Ibrahim A. Lawal, after Yetunde...

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna An Hakimi of Mai Ido, John Sabo Usman, the former district head of Mai Ido, has reportedly cried out for hunger following the arrest of his son, Hashimu, by the military over alleged involvement in kidnapping and banditry in Kachia LGA of Kaduna State. The former district head, who claimed that...

By Achadu Gabriel,. kaduna Kaduna state police command said it has arrested over 580 suspected criminals on various offenses between December 31, 2024, to date, the command disclosed this at press conference on Tuesday. Those arrested suspects includes 20 kidnappers suspects, 320 suspected phone snatchers, ​32 suspected armed robbers, 5 Car thieves,13 motorcycle snatchers,10 suspects...

Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has adjourned till March 13, 2025 further hearing in the trial of Ismaila Mustapha for an offence bordering on alleged money laundering.  The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had on January 12, 2022 arraigned Mompha alongside his...

The Initiative for Leadership and Economic Watch in Nigeria has expressed willingness and determination to team up with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on  monitoring of budget to ensure its optimal performance. The group, comprising  scores of civil society organizations made this disclosure in Abuja  on Thursday, February 6, 2025, when Ambassador Splendor...

By Achadu Gabriel, kaduna The story is everywhere in kaduna state council of Nigerian Union of journalist (NUJ), platform, that the kaduna based multiple award winning investigative journalist, Idibia Gabriel has been robbed. His two cell phones were stolen during the sad incident that occurred last Sunday night of 26th January 2025, in which the...

N50m Ransom: Church Abandon Abducted Husband, Wife in Bandits Captivity – Activist Alleges *Say’s COCIN hqters Jos building N1.5bn guest house, Borno too By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna The sympathetic incident of Rev. Paul Musa and his wife Mrs. Ruth Musa is a one horrible experience no human beings would wish their enemies to encounter. From...

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna A courageous and fearless northeast based right activist Rev. Kallamu Musa Ali Dikwa, popularly know as Dikwa has raised and alarm of alleged three threat calls put to him to quit Borno state or be killed.Dikwa who’s the Director General, Centre for Justice on Religious and Ethnicity in Nigeria, raised the...

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission(ICPC) has dragged Malam Nasir El Rufai’s former Chief of Staff(CoS), Alhaji Muhammad Bashir Saidu, to the Federal High Court in Kaduna, for alleged money laundering. Alhaji Bashir Saidu who was also a one-time Commissioner of Finance in Kaduna State during the El Rufai...

The Federal Ministry of Finance has taken a significant step towards promoting transparency and accountability in the public service with the inauguration of the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit (ACTU) Committee. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Mrs Lydia Shehu Jafiya, stated that the inauguration of the Anti-Corruption Committee marks a decisive step in our...