A lawsuit has been filed by the Socio Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, against the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, over its alleged failure to account for 3 trillion naira in public funds, including over 629 billion naira reportedly paid to “unknown beneficiaries” under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme. This was disclosed in a statement…
A 22-year-old Nigerian student from Plateau State, Isaac Satlat, has been reportedly shot dead in South Africa in what many Nigerians resident in the country believe is a fresh wave of xenophobic attacks targeting foreigners, especially Nigerians. According to a Nigerian resident in the country, Charles Awuzie, who posted the sad news on his Facebook…
There was pandemonium in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State as kidnappers stormed the area and abducted no fewer than five persons, including a police officer. News report gathered that abductions have become a daily routine in the Local Government Council to a point that the council authority and the traditional rulers imposed a…
Two persons —a commercial bus driver and his passenger—were burnt to death, while eight others sustained injuries after a minibus caught fire along the Okota–Mile 2 corridor in Lagos State. The incident was confirmed on Tuesday by the spokesperson of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Mr Adebayo Taofiq, who described it as a “devastating…
The Kogi State Government has ordered the temporary closure of selected markets and motor parks across parts of the state as part of intensified security operations aimed at flushing out terrorists, bandits and other criminal elements. The decision was announced in a statement issued on Sunday by the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo,…
The Benue State Police Command has confirmed that an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, attached to the 13 Police Mobile Force, Makurdi, was among the five persons killed during a violent attack by gunmen on Abande community in Kwande Local Government Area of the state. The confirmation was made by the Police Public Relations Officer,…
The Oyo State Fire Service has recovered the corpses of a 30-year-old man, Shina Adedeji, and another 45-year-old man, whose name was withheld, from two separate locations in the state. One of the victims was trying to rescue a goat when he was trapped in the well. The Special Adviser to Governor Seyi Makinde on…
An employee of an investment company in Lagos State, Bello Samuel, has been arraigned for allegedly diverting about N90m from the firm’s account for personal use. Samuel was arraigned by the Police Special Fraud Unit before the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on charges bordering on conspiracy and money laundering. In a statement on…
The Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU), Lagos, has arraigned an employee of an investment company, Bello Saheed Samuel, before the Federal High Court in Lagos over an alleged insider fraud involving about N90 million. Samuel was charged with conspiracy and money laundering following investigations into the disappearance of company funds, which police said were fraudulently…
Security operatives have launched a manhunt for gunmen who abducted two residents of Ora-Igbomina, an Osun community bordering Kwara State, late Sunday night. The victims, identified as Tayese Adeyeye and Sunday Adewumi, were reportedly seized by the assailants during an attack on a private residence along Aran-Orin Road in the Papa area of the town….