The Bayelsa State Police Command has arrested two suspects for allegedly vandalising and stealing mast inverter batteries belonging to a telecommunications company. A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Asinim Butswat, gave the identities of the suspects as Preye Perekeme and England Ito. He said that they were incepted on Saturday by men…
The Accident Investigation Bureau, Nigeria (AIB-N) on Sunday confirmed the crash of an aircraft belonging to the Nigerian military at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The General Manager, Public Affairs of AIB, Mr Tunji Oketunbi, confirmed this on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. A Nigerian military…
The Lagos State Government says within the next two weeks it will vaccinate about 1.5 million dogs. The government on Tuesday, Feb 16, said the vaccination will begin during the free anti-rabies vaccination campaign to prevent deaths of animals in the state. Ms. Abisola Olusanya, the State Commissioner for Agriculture made this known at the…
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that a 23-year-old labourer, Shehu Abbas, be given 12 strokes of the cane for stealing a Tecno phone valued at 56,000. Abbas, resident of Kawo in Kaduna State, was convicted after pleading guilty to the charge of theft and begged for leniency. The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, said…
Two Internet fraudsters, Ridwan Garuba and Adebayo Agbabiaka, have been sentenced by the Federal High Court in Abeokuta for their involvement in fraud. The convicts were arraigned on separate charges of fraud and impersonation. They pleaded guilty to the charges. Following their pleas, the counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Shamsuddeen Bashir, urged…
A court in Norfolk, Virginia, the United States on Tuesday jailed Nigerian scammer Obinwanne Okeke for 10 years for a computer-based fraud scheme that caused approximately $11 million in known losses to his victims. The sentencing was pronounced by Chief U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith, said the Department of Justice, Eastern District of Virginia….
Charges filed by EFCC shows the alleged fraudulent transactions started about a week before Ms Oduah was removed as aviation minister in 2014. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has indicted a senator, Stella Oduah, and the Nigerian subsidiary of Chinese construction giant, CCECC, in alleged fraudulent cash transactions of about N5billion over five months in 2014….
Nigeria’s headline inflation rose to 16.47 per cent in January 2021, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday. Buoyed by galloping food prices, food inflation also rose to 20.57 per cent in January, from 19.56 per cent in December. Inflation soared at 15.75 per cent in December, its highest level in 32 months, with the 0.86…
President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm Abdulrasheed Bawa as substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a letter to the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, the President said he was acting in accordance with Paragraph 2(3) of Part1, CAP E1 of EFCC Act 2004. Mr Bawa, 40, is…
The federal government has again imposed a travel restriction on 100 travelers for violating the COVID-19 protocol. The affected persons were said to have failed to comply with the mandatory seven days post-arrival COVID-19 test. The passport numbers of the affected persons were published on Twitter on Tuesday February 9 and it was learnt that the…
