Activist Omoyele Sowore was reportedly re-arrested by the Nigerian Police on Friday, shortly after a Kuje Magistrate Court granted him bail. Sources say the re-arrest happened while Sowore’s lawyers were completing his bail formalities alongside 13 others detained during the recent #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest.

The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the $460 million Chinese loan obtained by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2010 for the installation of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in key areas of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The project was intended to boost security in Abuja but was never executed.

President Bola Tinubu has stated that his administration cannot be accused of shielding any individual or group from facing legal consequences due to political ties, nor of obstructing crime investigations or prosecutions. He emphasized that his government neither harbors laws that protect wrongdoers nor engages in concealing anyone’s involvement in criminal activities.

Former Minister of Sports and Comrade General of the Movement for the Emancipation of Nigeria, Solomon Dalung, has urged the federal government to grant a presidential pardon to Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari, describing his ongoing detention and prosecution as a travesty of justice.

The Federal High Court, Abuja, has sentenced Garuba Mohammed Duku, a retired Director of Finance and Administration with the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) under the supervision of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), for corruption and money laundering involving N318 million.

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) command of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has confirmed the arrest of 12 suspected armed robbers involved in the death of ARISE News anchor, Somtochukwu Christelle Maduagwu as well as a security guard, Barnabas Danlami, at Unique Apartments, Gishiri Village, Katampe District, Abuja.