Conference Delegate Dies in Abuja
A delegate to the on-going National Conference, Alhaji Mohammed Hamma Misau, has died. According to family sources, he died Thursday night at the National Hospital, Abuja. Misau,a retired Assistant Inspector…
Lagos Goes Tough on Tax Evaders, Shuts Eight Firms
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service on Friday said it sealed eight companies this week for refusing to remit more than N24.7m personal income taxes of their workers. A correspondent…
Court Bars Lagos from Collecting Toll on Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Thursday, ordered the Lagos State Government to stop collecting toll on the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge, an action that has been under contention by…
Two Police Officers Get Jail Over N800,000 Bribe
Two Police Officers attached to the Criminal Investigation Department of the Nigeria Police Force, Kwara State Command, Ilorin have been sentenced to three and two years imprisonment respectively without option…
Soldier Shoots Self Dead over Boko Haram Killing of Parents, Children in Yobe
A Corporal in the Nigerian Army (name withheld) formerly serving with the Joint Task Force, JTF, in Rivers State on Wednesday shot and killed himself in what his colleagues described…
Drug Scourge: NDLEA Indicts Ethiopian Airline
Two suspected drug traffickers held by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have blamed their friend for luring them into the criminal act. Even as the agency…
Cartel Imports 40 Chinese Prostitutes as Expatriates – NIS
The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has said that the 40 Chinese teenage girls earlier arrested on Sunday, at Emina Crescent, Ikeja, were brought into Nigeria on expatriate quotas of four…
EFCC to Investigate NigComSat N14.854b Allocations
The Steve Oronsaye Committee on streamlining of federal government parastatals said in its report that “although the NIGCOMSAT is an incorporated entity, the company receives full funding from government to…
Lagos Robbers Are Better Armed Than Police – Robbery Suspect
A suspected armed robbery kingpin whose gang allegedly killed four policemen in an operation recently in Ijegun area of Lagos, has explained why they were able to perform the feat….
Police Re-open 13-Year-Old Murder Case of Four Igbo Youths
By Wisdom Patrick, Lagos The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Muhammed Abubakar, has ordered the Lagos State Police Command’s Criminal Investigations Department, SCID, to re-open the 13 years old alleged…