Month: November 2016

A 26-year-old undergra-duate, Sunday Akande, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, over alleged unlawful detention. In a letter through his lawyer F. E. Ojeikere, and copied the Commissioner of Police, Anambra State, the petitioner claimed he was arrested and […]

PDP factions step up struggle for control Peoples  Democratic Party (PDP) leaders were still tearing at one another yeNation rday.The two factions of the leading opposition party threatened  imprisonment against each other for laying claims to the leadership of the […]

Why ex-police boss stays away from public glare Public service, like bullfighting, is a perilous art in which the public servant faces the danger of ravenousness and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the […]

*Refuses EFCC ex-prosecutor’s plea By Onozure Dania Lagos—A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday refused to grant an ex-parte application filed by Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, seeking to secure her release from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has preferred a 30-count charge against a Federal High Court Judge, Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, and Godwin Obla, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.In the charge listed as number LD/367/C/16, Ofili-Ajumogobia was listed as the first defendant, […]

The Federal Government has hired a former International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, Charles Adeogun-Philips, to lead its team of lawyers to prosecute the Supreme Court Registrar and others for alleged N2.2b fraud.But the arraignment of the three senior officials of […]