The bill to amend the 2004 Criminal Code Law has scaled through a second reading at the Enugu State House of Assembly. Presenting the bill at the Hallowed Chamber on Tuesday, the Leader of the House, Mr. Iloabuchi Aniagu said amendment of the Criminal code law has become expedient as criminal elements generate huge money from ransom paid from kidnapped individual’s families and friends; “they have turned kidnapping to lucrative business.” Aniagu argued that criminalizing...

Yahaya Bello, the immediate past governor of Kogi State, is facing accusations of misappropriating state funds after Ola Olukoyede, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, alleged that Bello withdrew over $720,000 (N774,540,000) from state coffers to pay for his child’s school fees. Olukoyede made the explosive claim in Abuja on Tuesday during an interactive session with media executives. The EFCC Chairman said Bello transferred the funds from the state account to the...

Afenifere, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and socio-political organisation, has dissociated itself from the call by agitators for exit of Yoruba from Nigeria, describing the call as undesirable, self-serving and unnecessary. Afenifere in a press statement on Tuesday issued by the organisation’s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi maintained that the problems bedeviling Yorubaland and Nigeria as a whole “are not merely because multi-ethnic groups make up the country, rather, the country’s multifarious problems can be traced...

Senator Ibrahim Gaidam, Minister of Police Affairs has professed that state police is the best way to improve crime prevention and strengthen security at the grassroots level as well as enhance local responsiveness. The minister stated this at the National Dialogue on State Policing with the theme, “Pathways to Peace: Reimaging Policing in Nigeria” held on Monday in Abuja. He suggested a decentralized structure where each state manages its police force under a framework that...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declared Yahaya Bello, the immediate past governor of Kogi State, wanted. This move follows accusations of financial impropriety during Bello’s time in office. The EFCC alleges that Bello is involved in “economic and financial crimes” amounting to a staggering N80.2 billion. In a statement, the agency called on the public to provide any information on Bello’s whereabouts. Governor Bello, who served two terms from 2016 to 2024,...