The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned one Barrister Ifeanyichukwu Okonkwo before Justice E. N. Oluedo of the Enugu State High Court sitting in Independence Layout, Enugu for fraud. The EFCC disclosed this in a statement on X.com on Thursday. The statement partly read, “He is facing prosecution on…

The impeached Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has arrived at the Complex with heavy security operatives. The embattled speaker came with more than 11 Police officers and headed straight to the Speaker’s Office amidst reports of the withdrawal of the new speaker’s security operatives. Details later…

Nigerian artistes Rema, Mercy Chinwo, D’banj and Ayra Starr were among the big winners at the 2025 Trace Awards. Rema secured two major awards, winning ‘Album of the Year’ for Heis and ‘Best Male Artist’. Ayra Starr was recognised as the ‘Best West African Artist’. Gospel singer Mercy Chinwo took home the ‘Best Gospel Artist’…

A 28-year-old man, Monisola Adebayo, has been arraigned before an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, over alleged false publication against one Mrs Alice Oyinlola. Adebayo, whose address was not provided, is standing trial on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, defamation and publication of false news. He, however pleaded not guilty to the charges. The…

A member of the National Youth Service Corps serving in Ibadan, Oyo State, Rofiat Lawal, has been kidnapped by yet-to-be-identified abductors along the Benin-Ore Expressway. According to a Facebook post by a user, Agbakwara, on Wednesday, Lawal was returning from Benin, Edo State to report to her place of primary assignment on Tuesday when she…

The family of a 14-year-old boy, Mubarak Sanyaolu, who was allegedly killed by a stray bullet on November 4, 2021, at the Command bus stop in the Meiran area of Lagos State, has raised the alarm over the mysterious disappearance of the deceased’s corpse at the Lagos Mainland Hospital mortuary. Mubarak, an apprentice and secondary…

The Edo State Police Command on Wednesday arrested two suspects, Pastor Ijebor Simon (45 years) and Destiny Okojabhole (23 years), over the murder of seven-year-old Evans Okojabhole. According to a statement by the state command PPRO, Moses Yamu, the incident was reported by the deceased father, John Okhojibole, of the Jehovah Witness Road, off Elebesunu…

A Magistrate Court sitting in Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, has sentenced 21-year-old Adebanjo Segun to six months imprisonment for stealing a fowl. The Public Relations Officer of Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Dyke Ogbonnaya, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. Trouble was said to have begun on Wednesday,…

Jude Okoye, the elder brother and former manager of Peter and Paul Okoye of the defunct music group P-Square, has been remanded in the Ikoyi Correctional Facility following his arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations of money laundering amounting to N1.38 billion, $1 million, and £34,537.59. Okoye was arraigned alongside…

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has announced that the first Made-in-Nigeria helicopter is nearing completion and will soon take its maiden flight. The Project Manager at NASENI’s Aeronautics and Air Vehicle Development Institute, Engr. Kareem Aduagba, who disclosed this said significant progress has been made on the indigenous helicopter which would…