The Rule of Law And Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC) has condemned the shooting of human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore by a female police officer, Altine Hyelhira Daniel, in Abuja. The activist was said to have been speaking with a detachment of police officers stationed at the public facility when the female officer fired at him….
EX-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, on Sunday, gave the Nigerian government seven days to inaugurate the substantive Board of the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC). “It is against this background that I wish to call on Mr President, members of the National Assembly and Security Agencies to work towards the constitution of the substantive board…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a Ponzi scheme operator and founder of InksNation, Omotade-Sparks Amos Sewanu. In a Twitter post on Friday, the anti-corruption agency noted that Sewanu had been arrested in Sokoto. The tweet read, “BREAKING: Fleeing Ponzi Scheme Operator, Omotade-Sparks Amos Sewanu, Nabbed by EFCC in Sokoto.” In November 2020,…
A suspected internet fraudster who allegedly tried to buy a Range Rover worth N44million with Bitcoin has been arrested by the EFCC. The suspect identified as Tobiloba Aramide Ogundiyan is accused by the EFCC’s Advance Fee Fraud Section of committing online fraud and converting his loot into cryptocurrency. A statement released by the agency read; Ogundiyan acquired his ill-gotten wealth from…
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, has explained the reason why President Muhammadu Buhari did not attend the burial of the late Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died a in plane crash along with 10 other officers in Kaduna on Friday. Recall that COAS Attahiru and the…
Pastor Tunde Bakare, the General Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCC, on Saturday said some youths in their 20s and 30s are responsible for Nigeria’s current woes. Bakare said these youths once trusted with power messed up the system in Nigeria. He said the older generation of leaders are not responsible for the…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa has disclosed that the anti-graft agency recovered over N1 billion cash from a civil servant within a week. He disclosed this on Thursday while appearing before the Senate Committee on Finance investigating Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and payment of one percent stamp duty…
Men of the Nigeria Customs Service, Ogun 1 Area Command, have seized an articulated vehicle loaded with 600 bags of 50kg foreign parboiled rice and belonging to Dangote Cement Company. The NCS personnel also arrested three persons, including the truck driver, as they were conveying the consignment to the eastern part of the country. The Customs Area…
That Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Gumi has organised a lunch party for freed students of Kaduna forestry College alongside their parents. The invited guests were fed as they spent quiet time with the cleric. See photos below:
There was pandemonium in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, on Tuesday, as suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as ‘Yahoo boys,’ blocked major roads to protest alleged indiscriminate arrests by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the protesters, who were said to be ‘Yahoo boys’, set up bonfires…
