[VIDEO] PFIPC Scandal: Head Of Service Appears Before House Committe As Probe Begins
The ad hoc committee is also probing the alleged allocation of ₦1.3 billion to what lawmakers described as an illegal government agency in the 2026 Appropriation Act. The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF), Mrs. Didi Walson-Jack, on Monday appeared before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the disputed...
Court Jails Two Ansaru Commanders For Life Over Terrorism
The DSS said the pair were arrested in separate intelligence-led operations conducted between May and July 2025 The Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced two senior commanders of the Ansaru terrorist group, an al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist organisation, to life imprisonment after they pleaded guilty to multiple terrorism-related offences. Justice Emeka Nwite handed down the sentence after convicting Abubakar Abba, popularly known...
Alleged $2.63m Money Laundering: Court Admits Miyetti Allah’s Bello Bodejo ₦2bn Bail
The judge equally ordered Bodejo to drop his passport with the registrar of the court and not travel outside the country without the leave of the court. Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has admitted the National President of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Bello Bodejo, to a ₦2 billion bail with one surety in the like sum. In...
Search Intensifies After Flood Sweeps Away Two In Kaduna
The victims were identified as Musa Musa Bawa, 27, a 200-level student of the College of Nursing, Tudun Wada, and Abubakar Ibrahim Muhammad Likoro, 25, an employee of Olam Flour Mills, Kadun The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), in collaboration with the Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (KADSEMA), the Kaduna State Fire Service and other emergency responders, on Sunday intensified...
Alleged Money Laundering: Court Grants Ex-Warri Refinery MD Yisawu ₦500m Bail
Pending the perfection of the bail conditions, the court ordered that Yisawu should remain in the custody of the prosecution. Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has granted bail to the former Managing Director of the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited, Jimoh Yisawu, in the sum of ₦500m. Yisawu is standing trial on an eight-count charge bordering...
Two Ansaru Commanders Plead Guilty To Terrorism, Kidnapping
The suspects had been arrested by the DSS Ansaru commanders, Mammuda and Abu Baraa, who were arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS), have pleaded guilty to a 32-count charge of terrorism and kidnapping. The DSS had in September 2025 arraigned the two senior commanders of Ansaru, a proscribed terrorist organisation, at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The suspects allegedly...
Radda Launches Statewide Ward Consultations For 2027 Budget
Governor Dikko Radda assured residents that every genuine request submitted during the consultations would receive due consideration, even where immediate implementation is not possible. Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, has launched the second statewide ward-level town hall meeting for the collection of citizens’ inputs into the preparation of the 2027 Katsina State Budget, reaffirming his administration’s commitment to participatory governance...
Banditry: Kwara Community Writes Tinubu For Intervention
They appealed to the president to direct the immediate deployment of security personnel to secure the community The people of the Lata Nna community in the Patigi local government area of Kwara State have written a Save Our Soul (SOS) letter to President Bola Tinubu over persistent cases of banditry, kidnapping and other forms of criminality in the area in...
NDLEA Intercepts 1.63 Million Tramadol Pills Hidden in Trucks Bound For Kano
Operatives discovered 853,000 pills of tramadol (250mg) hidden in a fabricated compartment beneath the cargo floor and arrested the driv The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 1.63 million pills of tramadol (250mg) concealed in specially fabricated compartments of two articulated trucks. According to a statement by the Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, the intelligence-led...
The Last Of Messi’: Argentines Mourn World Cup Loss And End Of An Era
At the Cafe Relax bar in the historic center of Buenos Aires, fans with tears in their eyes after the final whistle blew on the 1-0 defeat said that what saddened them most was that it was almost certainly 39-year-old Messi's last shot at a World Cup Nervous excitement and rowdy cheers turned into anguished groans, nailbiting tension and tears,...
