Crime

The Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,  EFCC,  on Monday, March 17, 2025 arraigned one Catherine Ijeoma Ugwu before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court Maiduguri. The defendant was arraigned on a four -count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence, criminal misappropriation and cheating by impersonation to the tune of N6, 815,300.00 (Six Million Eight Hundred and Fifteen Thousand Three Hundred Naira only). Count one reads: “That you Catherine Ijeoma Ugwu between the period of June, 2023 to August, 2024 in Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with…

Section 32 of the 1979 Constitution provided that every individual was entitled to respect for the dignity of his person, and accordingly no person shall be subject to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment. Article 5 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights *Ratification and Enforcement Act Cap A9 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 provides that "all forms of exploitation and degradation of man, particularly slavery, slave trade, torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment and treatment shall be prohibited". In utter breach of the above provisions of the Constitution and the African Charter, the police…

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna The Kaduna state Police Command, North-Central Nigeria, said it has arrested a notorious kidnapper and recovered a fabricated AK-47 rifle alongside a huge cache of illicit drugs. The kidnapper was said to be part of a gang that abducted a district head on August 14,2024. The state’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Assistant Superintendent (ASP) Mansir Hassan, in a statement on Thursday, said on December 25, 2024, officers from the Saminaka Division, led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), arrested 25-year-old Sule Muhammad, a resident of Kargi Village in Lere Local Government Area (LGA) of the…

Our Reporter The trial of former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman continued on Wednesday, November 27, 2024 in the Federal High Court, Abuja, presided over by Justice James Omotosho with the cross-examination of the  third Prosecution Witness, (PW3), Colonel Adebisi Adesanya (retd). The cross-examination followed the testimony of the witness on Tuesday, November 26, 2024, in which he disclosed  that the former minister spent the sum of N20million from the fund earmarked for Mambilla Hydro Power project on payment for lodging in a resort over a period of one year. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC is prosecuting Mamman on a 12-count charge bordering on conspiracy to commit money laundering to the tune of N33,804,830,503.73 (Thirty-three Billion, Eight Hundred and Four Million,…

By Sam Tyav, Makurdi Palpable fear has gripped residents of North Bank area of Makurdi, capital of Benue State, North Central Nigeria, following incessant attacks and killings by hoodlums who have reportedly literally taken over the area. Scared residents recount that in the last one week six persons have been killed by the rampaging hoodlums. Major areas affected include Federal Housing, Ter Guma street, Day Spring, ECWA secondary school axis, Udei street and Federal Low Cost. Investigation by People and Politics revealed that many persons have started deserting the area out of fear and were relocating to safer parts of…

By Achadu Gabriel, Kaduna An activist in Borno state has dismissed the official position of return of security in many parts of the North-Eastern state of Nigeria, alleging that the reverse is the case. Reverend Kallamu Musa Ali Dikwa, who hails from the state, said he could no longer bear the situation, and claimed that presently entire districts are under the control of terrorist groups, especially Boko Haram and ISWAP. Dikwa, Director General (DG), Centre for Justice on Religious and Ethnicity in Nigeria, said even vehicles no longer ply roads leading to some of the areas under the terrorists' control…

Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, November 18, 2024, convicted and sentenced Fatuyi Yemi Philips, Chairman, Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria, NOGASA, to 21 years imprisonment for N43.5m fraud. The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on April 5, 2022, arraigned Philips alongside his firm, Oceanview Oil and Gas Limited, on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N43, 502,000.00 Count one reads: "Fatuyi Yemi Philips and Oceanview Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited, on or about the…