The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has launched an investigation into a serious incident involving a Fly Bird HS 125 aircraft, registration number 5NKAL. The aircraft, which was en route from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja (DNAA), to Kotoka International Airport, Accra (DGAA), experienced technical failure on December 6, 2024. During the flight, the aircraft […]
Police say the post-mortem of four-year-old Brisbane girl Willow Dunn revealed she had suffered “sustained mistreatment”. They are investigating whether Willow, who had Down syndrome, lived much of her four short years in neglect. “The post-mortem examination … revealed that at the time of her death Willow Dunn was experiencing serious malnourishment and many other […]
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday his government is trying to determine whether the coronavirus emanated from a lab in Wuhan, China, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Beijing “needs to come clean” on what they know. The source of the virus remains a mystery. General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs […]
The Institute of Maternal and Child Health (Ayinke House), Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, has recorded a COVID-19 related death. Ayinke House is a 170-bed healthcare centre, upgraded on April 24, 2019, and domiciled at LASUTH, Ikeja. According to reliable source the patient was referred to Ayinke House from Alimosho General Hospital, and […]
Former Lagos Commissioner of Police Alhaji Abubakar Tsav has cautioned the National Assembly against interfering in the ongoing investigation into the Offa Robbery case. This was contained in a statement he personally signed on Wednesday and made available to journalists in Makurdi. Tsav warned those concerned to stop meddling into the case, so the police […]
Mr. Seidu Mohammed, Star witness of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), in the ongoing trial of a United Kingdom-based Professor of Neurology, Reuben Oluwakinmilehin Obaro and his wife, Mrs Ayodele Olubunmi Obaro, a practicing nurse in the UK, has told a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in […]
Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun has disclosed that investigation on 534 cases out of a total 1,231 communications on the whistle-blower policy have been concluded with four convictions secured. Adeosun said that the ministry of finance undertook 791 investigations out of 1,231 tips the Ministry got, saying that 10 were presently under prosecution and […]
* Panel faults police over slow pace investigation * Omo-Agege declines comment *Ndume says incident unfortunate, gives security tips Members of the National Assembly ad-hoc committee on Tuesday faulted the Nigeria Police for its poor handling of the investigation of the April 18, 2018 invasion of the Senate Chambers and forceful retrieval of the mace. […]
…Intercepts 30 exotic vehicles, 5,516 bags of foreign rice, other items, arrests 14 suspects Following the recent interception of trucks belonging to Nigerian Breweries Plc used in the smuggling of bags of foreign parboiled rice, the Nigerian Customs Service, Federal Operations Unit said it has set up an investigation Committee to ascertain the culpability of […]
…Calls for reforms in education sector The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Magu, has said that the Commission is not engaging in sectional fight in its bid to rid the country of corruption, rather, it is fighting only the corrupt persons and institutions in the society. Magu also […]
Enugu State Police Command has commenced investigation into the alleged killing of a father by his son at Ojinato, a community in the state. The Command’s spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, said in a statement in Enugu on Tuesday that the incident happened on May 4. According to the statement, the suspect’s real name has not […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday informed a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos that the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, and two others currently facing trial over alleged N650 million fraud were not coerced to write their statements while investigation into the matter lasted. An investigator with the […]
The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has suspended the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr. Mounir H. Gwarzo, from Office, to allow for an unhindered investigation of several allegations of financial impropriety leveled against the Director-General. Adeosun said that the suspension was in line with the Public Service Rules (PSRs) […]
.JAC faults FG’s template on percentage, insists on parity .ASUU disagrees, vows to go on strike in 24 varsities Serious crisis has hit 24 Nigerian universities following a disagreement between the respective university unions on the percentage sharing formula to be adopted in the disbursement of the N23 billion recently released to the institutions as […]
The need to have a companion all the time manifested recently in Winnersh Berkshire, a large, suburban village and civil parish in the borough of Wokingham in Berkshire, England, as a dog obstructed rapist attempt on its owner. Agency report said that Police is currently hunting for the attempted rapist who on Thursday, fled after […]
Contrary to a social media reports, Heritage Bank Plc is not under investigation by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). People on social media had alleged that the operatives of the commission raided the head office of the bank in Lagos on Tuesday, claiming that an official of the bank was […]
Contrary to the social media report, the Heritage Bank Plc is not under investigation by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The social media had alleged that the operatives of the commission raided the head office of the bank in Lagos on Tuesday, claiming that an official of the bank was […]
The Civil Societies Organisations (CSOs) under the umbrella of Coalition of Concerned Minority Citizens for Equity, Justice and Good Governance as well as Benue Youth Advance Frontier and other civil society groups, have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to set up a committee with view to investigating the arrest and detention of the Commandant General […]
The UK Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has launched fresh investigations into the original London Metropolitan Police case against officers involved in the James Onanefe Ibori corruption case. The Officers in the case were DC Peter Clark, DC John McDonald, DC Ben Irons, DC Mathew Hurding-Jones, DC David Cocks, DS George Simpson, DI Gary Walters […]