By ‘kanmi AKINLADE, Investigator Correspondent, Northern Zone/ ABUJA- OFFICIAL and social activities at the Police Service Commission PSC were brought to an abrupt end Thursday at the federal secretariat Abuja after staff of the commission took to the Street protesting what they described as irreconcilable corruption endemic in the commission ... Read More »
By Mary BASSEY, Senior Investigator Correspondent Lagos/ LAGOS– FLAG Officer Commanding FOC Western Naval Command, Rear Admiral Barabutemegha Gbassa and 53 other senior officers were affected in a major reorganisation currently sweeping through the Nigerian Navy. Sources hinted that in the shakeup, Rear Admiral Saidu Garba, formerly the Navy Secretary, ... Read More »
Brig-Gen. Marwa flanked by other officials after the briefing… By Femi BABAFEMI, Director, Media & Advocacy NDLEA Abuja/ ABUJA-CHAIRMAN/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has said that a special task force is currently working across the country to track ... Read More »
By Wilson UWUJAREN, Head, Media & Publicity EFFC Abuja/ BAUCHI- A Bauchi State High Court presided over by Justice M.M. Abubarkar has convicted and sentenced one Ibrahim Abubakar (aka Alhaji Sadiq Babati) to three years imprisonment on a two- count charge of criminal conspiracy and cheating to the tune of ... Read More »
By Robert AKPAN, Senior Investigator Correspondent, Lagos/ LAGOS-A dismissed former staff of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, Hamza Gambo, has been arrested for allegedly defrauding 121 job seekers of over N5,173,000. Sources said, Gambo, who was employed by NIMET in 2003, was dismissed, reinstated and dismissed again over an offence. It ... Read More »
*Courtesy call: Executive Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service, Mohammed Nami paid courtesy call on the Executive Vice President INTERPOL/ Head, National Central Bureau Abuja AIG Garba Baba Umar in his office on how INTERPOL tools can boost Nigerian economy through revenue generation, recently… By ‘kanmi AKINLADE, Investigator Correspondent, Northern ... Read More »
OPINION By Clara MARQUES DURING the Kazakhstan’s recent unrest, Moscow and Beijing seemed to slip into their conventional roles in the region — the “gun” and the “wallet.” But that equilibrium won’t hold. Russia’s decision last week to help the Kazakh government crush an uprising and China’s muted response have ... Read More »
By Mary BASSEY, Senior Investigator Correspondent, Lagos/ LAGOS- THE continued brickbats and buck-passing arising from the controversial circumstances surrounding the death of Keren Akpagher of the Premier Academy Lugbe, Abuja may not be ending soon as the school management is accusing one Lemmy Ughegbe of merely blackmailing it. The recent ... Read More »
By Mary BASSEY, Senior Investigator Correspondent,/ LAGOS- THE last on the death of Keren Akpagher, a student of Premiere Academy, Lugbe, Abuja may not have been heard with a coalition of Civil Society Organizations carpeting one Lemmy Ughegbe for indicting the Delta State Government as part of the school’s call ... Read More »
By ‘kanmi AKINLADE, Investigator Correspondent Northern Zone/ ABUJA– FOUR ostensibly gullible police Inspectors who threw caution to the wind and engaged in a barefaced extortion have been arrested by Police detectives attached to the Federal Capital Territory Command Abuja. The circumstances surrounding the extortion of a young man forced into ... Read More »
