A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, has pronounced the Lakurawa sect a terrorist organisation and proscribed its existence across the country.

The Court of Appeal in Akure, the Ondo State capital has affirmed the death sentence of a popular hotel owner, Dr Ramon Adedoyin, who was found guilty in the murder case of Timothy Adegoke, an ex-Master’s student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC has yesterday arraigned Bashir Sa’idu, former Chief of Staff, CoS, to Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, administration over alleged forex racketeering and money laundering. Sa’idu, who also doubled as Commissioner for Finance during the El-Rufai administration in Kaduna state was slammed with second charge by the anti-graft agency.

The Transmission Company of Nigeria has said that over 18 electricity transmission towers were vandalized in Rivers, Abia, and Kano States between January 9 and 14, 2025 causing blackout nationwide.

The Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday, designated 17 areas in the nation’s capital as criminal black-spots. This was disclosed in a statement issued by the command’s spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, on Tuesday.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has disclosed that it had arrested 101 Nigerians alongside four Chinese nationals for cybercrime-related offences in Abuja, at an apartment in the Gudu area of the nation’s capital.