Category: Crime

Former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, collapsed outside the courtroom on Thursday at a Federal High Court, Abuja, due to ill health. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mamman, whose plea was fixed for Thursday morning, collapsed outside the courtroom before the case was called. The former minister’s counsel, Femi Ate, SAN, told Justice James Omotosho shortly when he was called to take his plea. Upon resumed hearing, the ex-minister walked into the courtroom and stepped into the dock with part of his clothes drenched. Justice Omotosho then asked…

Abdullahi Ganduje, The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, his wife Hafsat, and six others are set to appear before a Kano State High Court on Thursday. They face charges related to alleged bribery, diversion, and misappropriation of funds amounting to billions of naira. The Kano State Government initiated the suit before Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu. The court had earlier granted permission on June 5 to serve the respondents through substituted means. The respondents in the case include, Abdullahi Ganduje (1st respondent), his wife Hafsat (2nd respondent), Abubakar Bawuro…

The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University Dutsinma (FUDMA), Katsina State, Prof. Armaya’u Bichi, has alleged that some of the university’s staff are serving as informants to bandits. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that bandits have been attacking the area, kidnapping students and staffers of the university as well as their family members. Exactly a week ago, bandits stormed the residence of Dr Tiri Gyan David, Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension, and Rural Development of FUMA, killing him and abducting his children. Briefinf newsmen on Tuesday, Bichi said…

A Superintendent of Police, Ibrahim Sini has said he turned down a N150m bribe allegedly offered to him by a Lagos-based businessman, Akintoye Akindele to have peace of mind. Akindele who was arraigned for the offence at the Federal High Court in Abuja in August 2023 was remanded in the Kuje correctional centre. According to the charge sheet, the bribe was offered to allow police to permit him to escape abroad and to write a favourable report for him after the investigation. Sini was said to have led the Inspector…

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, on Tuesday, convened a high-level security council meeting with heads of security agencies. The security meeting, which took place at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital, was in response to escalating political tension in the state following the expiration of the tenure of the local government chairmen in the state. The closed-door session focused on recent disturbances at local government secretariats and the overall security situation in the state. Addressing reporters after the closed-door meeting, Fubara said the meeting with the…

A prosecution witness in the ongoing alleged $6 billion Mambila Power Project fraud, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has narrated how former Minister of Power and Steel, Dr. Olu Agunloye, received multiple transfers totaling N5.2 million from one Mr. Jide Sotirin, an employee of Sunrise Power and Transmission Ltd. An EFCC statement on Thursday via X noted that the revelation came during Agunloye’s trial before Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Apo, Abuja, where he faces seven-count charges bordering on official corruption and…

A married employee of the ministry, Simisola Fajemirokun Ajayi, had disclosed the excesses of the permanent secretary in a petition to the Minister, through her lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN). Ajayi urged Tuggar to investigate the permanent secretary. The petition titled, “Request For An Investigation Of Amb. Ibrahim Lamuwa’s Conducts Of Sexual Harassment At The Place Of Work, Abuse Of Office Official Intimidation And Discrimination,” was signed by Adebayo A. Oniyelu LP for Falana & Falana’s. While narrating how the Permanent Secretary has been harassing her, the counsel reminded the minister…

Abba Kyari, a suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, has been released from the Kuje Custodial Centre in the Federal Capital Territory after spending 27 months in detention. Kyari was detained following his arrest on February 14, 2022, by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for alleged involvement with an international drug cartel. Kyari, along with four members of the Police Intelligence Response Team—Sunday Ubia, Bawa James, Simon Agirigba, and John Nuhu—was arraigned on March 7, 2022. Two suspected drug traffickers, Chibunna Umeibe and Emeka  Ezenwanne, who were arrested at Akanu…

The Ogun State Police Command has urged residents of the state to be conscious of new tactics deployed by kidnappers to get their victims. The command’s Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, in an exclusive conversation with PUNCH Online on Saturday, said kidnappers now lay siege for their victims at their gates and attack when they are about to enter their homes. Odutola, who disclosed that a manhunt has been launched for the kidnapping syndicate, stressed that the incidents have become prevalent in the eastern part of the state. The spokesperson…

Kano Chief Judge, Justice Dije Abdu Aboki, has transferred the corruption case involving the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and seven others to another court. The case before Kano High Court 4 sitting at Audu Bako presided by Justice Usman Malam Na’abba was transferred to Court 7 on Miller Road presided by Justice Amina Adamu Aliyu. Confirming the development, the Public Relations Officer of the Kano State High Court, Baba Jibo Ibrahim said, “The office of the CJ of the state has the power…

An Indian judge has dismissed the complaint of a woman who claimed that her husband committed “unnatural sex,”. The judge said it is not illegal for a husband to force his wife to engage in sexual acts under Indian law. The ruling, made in the Madhya Pradesh High Court last week, highlighted a legal loophole in India that doesn’t criminalise marital rape by a husband against his wife if she’s over age 18, CNN reports. The woman told police her husband came to her house in 2019, soon after they…

A gang of repentant Boko Haram insurgents dressed in military uniforms on Tuesday night invaded a police station in Maiduguri in an attempt to set free their colleagues who were arrested earlier over alleged drug offences about a week earlier. Police Public Relations Officer in Borno State, Kenneth Daso, confirmed that there was an incident at the police station, and that the assailants were repelled by officers on duty. Daso said the security breach was heralded by an operation carried out by the police. He said, “On the 30/04/24 at…

The military high command says it has concluded its long-awaited investigations on the bombing of innocent citizens Tudun Biri village of Igabi LGA of Kaduna State. It also said two officers of the Nigerian Army, who were found wanting about the incident would face court-martial, saying the operation shouldn’t have happened in the first place. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Edward Buba, disclosed this at an ongoing press briefing at Defence Headquarters, Abuja on Thursday. The drone bombing error, which occurred on Sunday, December 3, 2023, resulted in dozens of…

Hadi Sirika, the immediate past miniter for aviation has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over an ongoing N8,069,176,864.00 money laundering probe. The indicted former Minister of Aviation arrived at the Federal Capital Territory Command of the EFCC at about 1:00 pm on Tuesday. The PUNCH correspondent, who was at the Wuse office of the EFCC, observed the embattled former minister’s arrival at the anti-graft agency’s Abuja office. Following his arrival at the command, Sirika is currently meeting with EFCC investigators to answer questions on alleged fraudulent…

The Federal Government on Thursday put the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, on its watchlist to prevent him from escaping from the country. The Nigerian Immigration Service, in a circular dated April 18, 2024 and signed by Assistant Comptroller of Immigration DS Umar, for the Comptroller-General, Kemi Nandap, alerted the police and the Department of State Services to effect the former governor’s arrest. This came hours after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission declared Bello wanted in connection to an alleged case of money laundering to the…