ENUGU: Police arrest 6 suspected Armed Robbers, Recover AK-47, Ammunition in Enugu

The Police Command in Enugu State has arrested six notorious armed robbery suspects operating within the state for some months now. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Daniel Ndukwe, said in a statement on Friday that the members of the armed gang were arrested from March 24 within the state. Ndukwe said that the command recovered one AK-47 rifle with number 12097; three live ammunition, one tricycle, one cutlass, one Infinix Hot phone and one...

Amnesty International Tells Prison Authorities to Prevent Spread of Covid-19

THE AMNESTY International has called on the prison authorities to intensify it effort to prevent the spread of the COVID–19 pandemic in correctional and detention centres. The call was made on Thursday in a series of tweets which revealed that prisoners and detainees at police and military facilities across Nigeria are at risk of contracting the Covid-19 infection as they are held in overcrowded and unhygienic conditions that can be even more deadly in the...

Lockdown: Police Arrests 12 Journalists in Adamawa

No fewer than 12 journalists were arrested by police in Adamawa while sitting at the NUJ Press Centre, Yola waiting for any update on COVID-19 in the state, Mr. Ishaka Donald Dedan the state Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists NUJ, has confirmed. Regretting the violation of NUJ sanctity, Dedan said, “The police stormed the NUJ secretariat at about 6 p.m. and  arrested  12 journalists on assignment because they were supposed to brief the...

COVID-19: ICRP Calls For Release Of Zakzaky , Other Prisoners Of Conscience

A Nigerian human rights group, the Initiative For Conciliation And Right Protection (ICRP) has joined the call for the release of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife Malama Zeenah Ibraheem in the wake of the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The group on Wednesday averred that considering the inadequate resources to manage this deadly virus in this country, ‘’we call on the government to release all prisoners that are on bail, the elderly, those with chronic illnesses and all prisoners...

2019 Election: Supreme Court Dismisses APC’s Request to Review Judgment

The Supreme Court in a four to one split ruling on Friday dismissed a request to review its judgment filed by the Zamfara All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 general elections. The apex court refused to set aside its consequential order that made the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) beneficiary of all elective positions in the 2019 general elections in Zamfara. The judgment delivered by Justice Inyang Okoro reiterated the position of the court that...

Paris Club Refund: Court Orders Katsina Govt to Pay Over 13.3bn to Firm

Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered Katsina State Government to pay a firm, Mauritz Walton Nigerian Ltd, N13.3 billion for the debt management services it rendered to the state. The firm was said to have rendered the services, which aided the refund of the 217.3 million dollars to Katsina State by the Federal Government. Justice Ekwo, in a judgment, held the firm was able to establish, through credible evidence, that...

ICPC Arrests Ex-Presidential Panel Chairman, Obono-Obla

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has arrested the suspended Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Mr. Ekoi Obono-Obla. Spokesperson of the commission, Mrs Rasheedat Okoduwa, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday night, said the arrest followed his “months of running from the law.” ”Obono-Obla’s arrest by operatives of the commission on Friday in Abuja, comes after he was...

Kidnapped Anglican Bishop’s Wife Regains Freedom

The Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, on Friday in Lokoja, confirmed the release of the wife of the Anglican Bishop of Bari Diocese in Kano State, who was kidnapped last week. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Archbishop Okoh announced this during the consecration service of five new bishops and presentation of two archbishops, at the Cathedral Church of Holy Trinity, Lokoja, Kogi State. The service...

How “Mompha” Operates Unlicensed BDC—Witness

The trial of Ismaila Mustapha aka Mompha an internet celebrity continued today, March 18, 2020 before Justice A. Mohammed Liman of a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, as a prosecution witness told the court that Mompha did not remit tax to the Federal Government for a period of seven months while his company was already in existence. According to a statement from EFCC’s head of media and publicity, Tony Orilade, Mompha is standing...

Zamfara Govt Uncovers 200 Ghost Doctors

The Zamfara Government on Friday said it has discovered 200 ghost medical doctors from its payroll. The state Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Rabi’u Garba, who disclosed this to newsmen in Gusau, noted that the ghost doctors were uncovered during the ongoing civil servants verification exercise under the State Hospital Service Management Board (HSMB). “When the present administration came in, we had 287 medical doctors in the government’s payroll purported to be working in various General...

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