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Emefiele: I Was Forced To Give $600,000 Bribe For Contract Payment – Witness

Ex-Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele
A prosecution witness in the trial of former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Godwin Emefiele has said he was forced to pay a bribe of $600,000 before being paid for a contract he did for the apex bank. The witness who is the Managing Director of Resource Computer Limited, Victor Onyejiuwa disclosed this at the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja yesterday. Being led in evidence by the prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, Onyejiuwa said his company deploys hardware and software-tailored security, network, storage and backup solutions. Emefiele and his co-defendant, Henry Omoile, are facing trial on a 26-countRead More

New ISWAP Leader Kills Five Rebel Leaders To Consolidate Power

The new leader of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) Lawan Abubakar
The new leader of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) Lawan Abubakar, aka Ba Lawan, has executed five Shura council members (the supreme leadership council of the terrorist group) includingRead More

Southeast Tops NHRC Sexual Violence Complaints

National Human Rights Commission
The National Human Rights Commission’s Executive Secretary, Mr. Tony Ojukwu, on Monday, March 2nd, 2020 said that the Special Investigating Panel on Sexual and Gender Based Violence created by theRead More

Kaduna Killings: Bandits Can’t Establish Terror Reign – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the killings of over fifty one (51) people in four (4) villages Kaduna villages by bandits on March 1st, saying that they had made aRead More

Man Allegedly Hacks Woman To Death Over Theft Accusation

Hacking to death with machete
On Sunday, March 1st, 2020, operatives of Ogun Police Command apprehended one Ejike Okata, 27, for allegedly hacking his neighbour, a 50-year-old woman, Adeyiba Oladipupo, to death with a machete.Read More

Man Allegedly Stabs Apprentice To Death Over N500

Knife stabbing
A trivial argument over a N500 debt has claimed the life of a 33-year-old apprentice, Afeez Oluwole, at Satellite town area of Lagos State. Our correspondents learnt that the victimRead More

Armed Bandits Kill 51 In 4 Kaduna Villages

Suspected armed bandits attacked four (4) villages in Kaduna State
On Sunday, March 1st, 2020, suspected armed bandits attacked four (4) villages in Igabi Local Government Area (L.G.A.) of Kaduna State, killed fifty one (51) people and injured many others.Read More

Man Sentenced To Death By Hanging For Phone Theft In Ekiti

Death sentence
A high court in Ado Ekiti has sentenced a middle-aged man named Isa Abdulkareem, to death by hanging for armed robbery. While delivering the judgment on Friday, February 28th, 2020,Read More

EFCC Arrest 3 Men For Allegedly Hypnotising, Duping Ibadan High Chief Of N300m

The three men, who allegedly duped Ibadan high chief, Oba Lekan Balogun, of about N300m
Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibadan zonal office, has nabbed three (3) persons for allegedly defrauding the Otun-Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun. The threeRead More

Ogun Teenager Stabs Boyfriend To Death Over N3,000

Murder suspect, Abosede Idowu
Officers of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a teenager, Abosede Idowu, for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend, Aliyu Ibrahim, to death over N3,000. The suspect was reported to haveRead More

Three Ekiti Teachers Arrested For Allegedly Raping Pupils

Statutory rape
On Wednesday, February 26th, 2020, police officers in Ekiti State arrested three secondary school teachers for allegedly having sexually molested some of their female students. The Ekiti State’s Police PublicRead More