The Commissioner of Police for Special Intervention Squad, CP Abayomi Shogunle, has explained why the Nigerian police is still detaining a Sahara Reporter who is also an activist, Omoyele Sowore, in its custody. According to the police boss, Sowore’s arrest and detention were ordered after the activist allegedly refused to make a statement upon police interrogation when he was invited by the police for an interview.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has fingered real estate developers as being complicit in the widespread occurrence of money laundering in the country, accusing them of being key facilitators due to inadequate customer vetting. This was contained in the antigraft press release on its social media accounts yesterday by its chairman, Ola Olukoyede, while tasking real estate developers with the need to do background checks on real estate investors to ascertain the legitimacy of their sources of income.

Legal experts are beginning to express concern as death gallows have continued to pile up with criminal condemned prisoners awaiting execution across many state correctional facilities in the country. This is coming as no fewer than 37 condemned prisoners are awaiting execution after being convicted for capital punishment in Bauchi State. Out of which 36 males and one female.

Chairperson of the Nigerians in the Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has lamented that it’s unfair to generalise crime being committed by a few Nigerians to the whole of the country. Abike, who was responding to questions on the ‘Nigeria must go’ protest going on in Ghana, called on Ghanaians to punish individual offenders found wanting instead of witch-hunting all Nigerians.

Troops of the Nigerian military have recorded significant successes in July, neutralizing several top terror commanders, rescuing 134 kidnap victims, and halting the theft of oil worth N1.3 billion across the nation.

The Benue State Police Command has disclosed that 6 law students of the Yola campus who were abducted on July 26, 2025, while on their way from Anambra State to Adamawa State have regained their freedom.