Former Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Mohammed Matawalle who is currently the state Minister of Defence has warned his political opposition to stop using a wanted bandit kingpin, Bello Turji, from damaging his name and reputation. The Minister was speaking through a statement from the Ministry of Defense, issued yesterday Sunday.
The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) on Thursday released the pictures and names of prisoners who escaped from the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Suleja, Niger State. Out of the 118 inmates that escaped, 18 were recaptured, while the rest are still at large.
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has foiled a kidnap attempt in El-Rufai Estate in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
According to reports, the kidnappers numbering over 15 invaded the estate around 2 am on Wednesday and shot sporadically.
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) arrested a crypto billionaire, Linus Williams, popularly known as BLord on Tuesday regarding several allegations such as terrorism financing, amongst others. This development was made known in a statement by Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Muyiwa Adejobi, stating that he was arrested because of complaints filed against his companies.
A High Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory , FCT, Abuja has today, rejected an application by the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, to be granted permission to travel to the United Kingdom, UK for a medical check-up.
The Adamawa/Taraba Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has seized 85 200-litre drums of petrol being illegally conveyed to the Republic of Cameroon. The command also seized 795 25-litre jerry cans of the same product found concealed on a bush path at the Sahuda section of the Nigeria-Cameroon border. The Customs Area controller of the Adamawa/Taraba Area Command, Comptroller Garba Bashir who called a news briefing Friday at the area command headquarters of the NCS in Yola, disclosed that a Carina E with a hidden compartment loaded with petrol was intercepted along the Girei-Wuro Boki axis of Adamawa State. According to him, the foregoing seizures were made from the 29th of last month to date. He added that within the past six weeks in all, the Area Command has recorded 17 cases of seizure of various items with an aggregate duty value of N36.9 million.
