The disgraced Accountant General of the Federation, AGF, Ahmed Idris is seeking a plea bargain in his fraud case that he was alleged to have divert6ed N109 billion by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC. On July 22, 2022, the AGF was paraded in court by the EFCC on 14 count charges bordering on fraud alongside Godfrey Olusegun Akindele, Mohammad Kudu Usman, and a firm, Gezawa Commodity Market and Exchange Limited. Accordingly, the defendants were granted bail in liberal terms.

It has been reported that seven more kidnapped passengers who were involved in the 28th March train attack have been released. the victims who were released on 10th August 2022 had spent 135 days in captivity. It was confirmed by Tukur Mamu, the publisher of Kaduna-based Desert Herald and Media Consultant to Sheikh Ahmed Gumi that the seven hostages released include a family of six and a woman.

The Chief of Defence Staff, Lucky Irabor, on Tuesday informed that two of the masterminds of the deadly terrorist attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, South-West Nigeria have been arrested. The suspects described as top commanders of ISWAP in Nigeria, are 32-year old Idris Ojo and 39-year old Jimoh Ibrahim.

Following months of evading security forces, a notorious bandit, Alhaji Abdulkareem Lawal, and 27 others have been eliminated by aggressive bombardments of the Nigerian military airstrikes in Katsina State, on Saturday evening.
Lawal, who is popularly called Abdulkareem Boss by his criminal colleagues, was a high-valued target on the radar of the Nigerian military and other security agencies for a while. The precision airstrikes came barely a week after service chiefs, at the last National Security Council meeting, reassured President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigerians that there would be a change in strategy and momentum in the fight against insurgency and terrorism and the Chief of the Air Staff’s directive to Nigerian Air Force (NAF) operational and air component commanders to ‘show no mercy’ in decimating terrorists and insurgents.

Former Governors of Plateau and Taraba states, Joshua Dariye and Joly Nyame have been set free from the kuje correctional facility, Abuja. Recall the duo was granted a presidential pardon three months ago by the council of state chaired by President Buhari, on April 14th, 2022. It was learned that the two former governors were let go at about 2:15 pm today at the kuje prison after completing all processes for their release.

President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated has unequivocally condemned the killing of six Nigerien citizens and law enforcement officials by terrorists in the South-East. This was made known in a statement by Buhari's Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, stating that through all possible means in ensuing speedy investigation to bring to book the perpetrators behind this heinous act.