A suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, the former commander of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), has been released on bail from the Kuje Custodial Centre, Abuja on Friday, after spending 27 months in detention. According to reports, on May 22, 2024, Justice Emeka Nwite granted Kyari a two-week bail to permit him to participate in the burial rites of his mother, Yachilla Kyari, who passed away on May 5.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has secured 3,175 convictions and recovered N156,276,691.30 in the last one year from May 29, 2023 to May 29, 2024. This was made known on Wednesday by the EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede who was represented by the Secretary of the Commission, Mohammed Hammajoda during the launch of EFCC’s zero tolerance club at the University of Abuja.

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has filed an application at the Appeal Court to stop his trial.

The Defence Headquarters says troops of Operation Delta Safe (OPDS), a military onslaught against oil thieves in the Niger Delta region, seized 4,124, 970 litres of stolen crude in May. It said the troops also recovered, from oil thieves, 793,796 litres of diesel and 4,480 litres petrol. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj Gen Edward Buba, announced this on Thursday, May 30, during a press briefing in Abuja.

High Court sitting in Kano state has stopped the Nigerian Police, State Security Service (SSS) and Nigerian military from evicting the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II.

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Monday, dismissed a fresh application the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, filed to be released on bail, pending the determination of the treasonable felony charge the Federal Government preferred against him. The court, in the ruling that was delivered by trial Justice Binta Nyako, said it was not minded to exercise its discretion in favour of the defendant, whom it said jumped the bail it earlier granted him.