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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, arrested the Director-General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Emeka Mba, over an alleged N15 billion fraud. Mba was arrested  in Abuja and taken to the EFCC’s headquarters where he is currently being grilled. Those familiar with the investigation say the …

Olisa Metuh in EFCC custody…reportedly on hunger strike‎ (Photo)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday night arrested a former military governor of Kaduna State and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Lawal Jafaru Isa. Jafaru IsaMr. Isa is the first chieftain of the APC arrested by the EFCC since the beginning of a sweeping probe into …

A middle- aged bricklayer identified as Odion Egbegbe was on Tuesday night killed by suspected cult members in Ose quarters, Ogida, Benin City, Edo State.Egbegbe’s killing brought to two the number of people killed in the renewed cult war in the city. The Divisional Police Officer in the area, Mr. …

A peaceful protest Saturday in support of an eastern Oregon ranching family facing jail time for arson was followed shortly afterward by an occupation of a building at a national wildlife refuge. Ammon Bundy, the son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who was involved in a standoff with the government …

Nigeria said it was expecting telecoms giant MTN to meet a deadline for paying a record $3.9 billion fine which expires Thursday, despite the South African operator challenging the penalty in court. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the country’s telecoms regulator, had in October fined the firm for missing a …

Davido’s babymama Sophia Momodu’s lawyers today wrote a petition addressed to the Director General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, accusing Davido and his family members of “attempted child trafficking and abduction of (Davido’s daughter) Miss Aurora Imade Adeleke”. Read the petition after the cut… December 30, …

Bill Cosby remains free after paying bail set at $1 million in an Elkins, Penn., courtroom on Wednesday, where he answered to the only criminal charges brought against him in the wave of allegations from more than 50 women that he committed sex crimes against them over the past four decades. The Cosby …

Like the bibilcal Daniel saved from the jaws of death,a young man,Dahiru Lawal,was today saved from ‎the hands of two Air force cadets  Abdullahi Fahad and Peter O. Solomon, who had bundled and locked him up inside the trunk of their car en route an unknown destination, by the convoy …

President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that those who are found guilty in the $2.1 billion arms deal fraud will be sent to jail. He said this in a recent interview with BBC Hausa. In the interview,he said: “Remember during the campaigns, we said Nigeria is facing three things and nobody …