A Senior Magistrate Court, sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State, on Thursday ordered that the embattled senator representing Kogi West, Senator Dino Melaye, be remanded in police custody till June 11. This followed his arraignment on a seven-count charges bordering on criminal conspiracy and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms, kidnapping, armed robbery and murder, political thuggery among others, before Mr. Suleyman Abdullahi ... Read More »

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, granted an interim forfeiture order of a property belonging to former first lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, who granted the order, held that it was to enable the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC ) investigate the acquisition of Ariwabai Aruera Reachout Foundation, a property liked to Mrs Jonathan. Dimba ... Read More »

Justice Raliat Adebiyi of a Lagos High Court sitting at Ikeja on Monday convicted a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Joseph Nwobike, for perversion of justice. The judge gave the verdict while delivering judgment in the criminal charge filed against the lawyer by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Nwobike was convicted in nine out of the 13-count charge. ... Read More »

It was a day of prayers and protests yesterday over the killings in some parts of the country. Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) President Supo Ayokunle called for the protests as a wake-up call to the Federal Government that the bloodletting must stop. However, there were no protests in the Southeast. The protests in Lagos, Ibadan, Ado-Ekiti, Akure, Kaduna, Port ... Read More »

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday directed its members in Kogi State to vote against the recall of Senator Dino Melaye during Saturday’s verification of petitioners’ signatures. The PDP said in a statement in Lokoja it was not in support of Melaye’s recall from the beginning. The party’s Director of Research and Documentation, Mr. Dickson Achadu, who signed ... Read More »

Gunmen have reportedly shot one of the chairmanship aspirants for the Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, Pastor Silas Buowe, on the stomach. Buowe was attacked around the Forest Holiday Hotels along Emiye Road in Oleh, administrative headquarters of Isoko South Council Area of the state on Wednesday, after a haircut. The victim who had intensified campaign to ... Read More »

 lawmaker representing Lagos Central in the National Assembly, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, on Wednesday asked her colleagues in the red chamber not to link President Muhammadu Buhari to the ongoing ordeals of another member, Senator Dino Melaye in the hands of the Police. The lawmaker, who is the wife of Bola Tinubu, national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), ... Read More »

A  30-year-old lady has killed herself by dousing herself with petrol after her uncle asked her to allow him to finish work before helping her to print questions on visa-qualifying examination she wanted to write. Gurpreet Kaur was the niece of Harcharanjit Matharu and his wife, in whose mansion her burning body was discovered in the garden. According to a statement ... Read More »

The National Economic Council on Thursday recommended a ban on the movement of herdsmen across the country as a way of stopping the killings being witnessed in parts of Nigeria. This is expected to start in the five states where the killings are most pronounced -Benue, Taraba, Adamawa, Kaduna and Plateau. The NEC chaired by the Vice-President has all state ... Read More »

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday urged Nigerians in Benue, who have been bearing the brunt of unparalleled violence in the country since the New Year to look beyond the surface, as agents of disunity may be at work. “Repeated acts of mass killings and destruction in parts of the country and Benue State in particular, point to the evil design ... Read More »