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Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) yesterday said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will probe the Managing Director of ANAMMCO, Mr. Jacques Gelin over an alleged N2billiion scam.
THE Church has implored the Government to audit books of accounts for the Taskforce on Corruption because the investigative wing was using public funds.
Imo State police command has alerted the public about some devious plans by wanted notorious armed robbery suspects to unleash terror in the state during the coming yuletide.
The Imo State chairman of the Nigeria Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), Mr. Chima Chukwunyere, has implored the Zone 9 of the police situated at Umuahia to fulfil the previous pledges it made to the committee.
Community leaders and the Traditional Council of Chiefs in Isheri-Oshun community in Igando-Ikotun local council development Area of Lagos state have called on Governor Babatunde Fashola to rescue them from some individuals who have allegedly been going round the community with the threat to deal violently with anybody that refuses to endorse the candidature of a certain individual as the ...
President Ian Khama has said that security and stability of a country plays a pivotal role in the peace of every country and its ability to attract foreign direct investment for economic growth.
Action Congress (AC) gubernatorial candidate in the Anambra State Governorship election, Dr Chris Ngige has counselled Chief Ralph Nwosu to keep quiet if he has nothing to contribute to the way forward of the State.
Indications are rife that with the establishment of the International Cancer Center, Abuja, ICCA, one of the pet projects of the First Lady, Hajia Turai Yar'Adua, Abuja is fast becoming a haven for persons who pose as those afflicted with cancer. This is as the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) recently arrested one of them.
A Lagos pilgrim,currently in Mecca,Saudi Arabia, for this year's Hajj has been arrested by the Saudi police for being in possession of fake $22, 000 (N3.3 million) from which he had been spending.
As part of the rising focus and interest on police reforms by government and civil society groups, a Non-Government Organisation known as CLEEN foundation recently organised a one day training on human rights and policing for policemen in the Federal Capital Territory.
Chairman of the Police Service Commission retired DIG Parry Osayande yesterday said salaries of the Nigeria police are the poorest in the world. Osayande who led a delegation of the commission to the Delta State Police Command said this when he visited Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan in Asaba. He however added that already, the commission had started negotiating with the Federal Government for an ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Ojo Maduekwe weekend took delivery of two stolen Nigerian artefacts worth $55, 000 recently handed over to Nigeria by the French Customs in Toulouse, France.
A 33-year-old businesswoman was recently arraigned before an Abuja magistrate court for allegedly stealing N450,000 and a cell phone belonging to one Pastor Toluwase Oguntunde.
A Senior State Attorney, Mr. George Ofori, has stated that corrupt officials will be prosecuted only if Ghanaians are courageous enough to bring evidence against such persons to the notice of the Attorney General's Department.
The Sh5.8 billion Goldenberg scandal case against three former top civil servants will start afresh on February 3 next year. Chief magistrate Gilbert Mutembei made the order after hearing both the prosecution and defence.
The Somali Government and the African Union force in the country need more help on land to fight piracy in the waters, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report released today.
The Diallo family in the Guinean capital, Conakry, has found no trace of Thierno Abdoulaye Diallo, 20, a student, since he set off on 28 September for a football stadium in the city.
A FORMER US Congressman slammed with corruption charges over business deals in Nigeria has been jailed for 13 years. William Jefferson, a Democrat from Louisiana was sentenced on Friday after he was found guilty on August 11 of 11 of 16 corruption charges by a Federal jury.
Upper East Region and the Central South Region of Burkina Faso will collaborate to fight smuggling, movement of small arms, drug trafficking and highway robbery.
The Nigerian police has not had much success at following up murder cases and other crimes. Often the police in our land have dismissed cases of gruesome murder and assassination as the handiwork of armed robbers after announcing to the public that investigations are 'on-going' and will get to the root of the crime.' Most times, the crime is forgotten as the investigation reaches a dead end, ...
Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State has raised alarm over the poor security situation created in the waterway between Nigeria and Republic of Cameroon following the declaration of the area as a buffer zone.
Journalists attending the United Nations-backed fourth World Electronic Media Forum (WEMF 4) have called for sustained and concrete global action to address the murder of journalists in peacetime and in war.
VIOLENCE has to be condemned, wherever it happens and whoever the perpetrators are. We would therefore roundly condemn individuals responsible, or the organisations they belong to, who may be inciting such acts.
POLICE have picked up 14 people, among them, those who recently shot and wounded a Lebanese businessman in Lusaka while in Kalulushi a suspected notorious criminal was shot dead.
Demonstrators temporarily disrupted business in Isiolo Town when they blocked roads to protest against the killing of 11 people at Ngeramara in Tigania East District.
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