Some business operators and residents in Ikorodu area of Lagos on Friday urged the Lagos State Government and the Nigeria Police Force to secure investments in the area by beefing up security. The business operators and residents told the News […]
The Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) on Friday in Abuja, approved the conferment of the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) on 21 lawyers. Mr Ahmed Saleh, the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court and Secretary of the Committee, […]
THE 49 year-old Chief Consultant Gynaecologist and Managing Director of Hope Medical Centre Benin City, Dr John Abode, who was found dead in his wardrobe last Tuesday, may have actually committed suicide, Vanguard gathered. Vanguard learned from a top security […]
A 39-year-old trader, Mrs Modinat Idowu, told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos state on Thursday that she would continue to deny her husband, one Akeem Idowu, sex until he has paid the debt he is owing her. Idowu said […]
A Federal High Court, sitting in Kano, yesterday, ordered former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, and his two sons, Aminu and Mustapha, accused of fraud, remanded in prison custody in Kano till September 28. The former governor is facing a […]
The Bayelsa state government paid close to one hundred million naira to an Italian firm, Hacking Team, to hack computers and phones in Nigeria, new information emerging from the firm’s leaked internal data has shown. Hacking Team, notorious for equipping […]
A 19-year-old Pakistani, Iftikhar Arslan, was on Thursday sentenced to 18 months in prison by Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Lagos, for importing 25. 4kg of heroin. Arslan, who said he was a medical student in Pakistan, […]
The Ministry of Justice said yesterday it was ready to prosecute anybody indicted by agencies of government for looting public funds. The Permanent Secretary, Alhaji Abdullahi Yola, told State House correspondents shortly after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari on the ministry’s […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] yesterday failed in its bid to arraign former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva on a fresh 50-count corruption charges instituted against him before the Federal High Court in Abuja. Sylva is being […]
Former Head of Service of the Federation, HOSF, Mr. Steve Oronsaye, yesterday, returned to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC’s custody ahead of possible arraignment. Oronsaye was arrested and detained by operatives of the anti-graft agency, Wednesday, but released […]