The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, has yesterday, affirmed the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its designation as a terrorist organisation. IPOB is a separatist group championing agitation for an independent state of Biafra which it wants carved out from the south-east and some parts of south-south Nigeria.
The Department of State Services, DSS, has successfully apprehended a suspected fleeing gunrunner tracked from Niger Republic to Zamfara State.
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.
