Former Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has described as a “desperate ploy by a drowning politician” the move by Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, to initiate a case of criminal culpability against him over the Offa robbery incident of 2018. While describing the criminal case as “dirty politics taken too far and too low”,…
Kwara State Government has officially filed a 20-count charge against former Senate President Bukola Saraki and former Governor Abdulfatai Ahmed over their alleged arming of top suspects convicted in the tragic Offa armed robbery incident of April 2018. Those also listed in the charge, filed under case number KWS/114C/26, include Yusuf Abdulwahab, former Chief of…
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, on Thursday, sentenced a 63-year-old pastor, Chris Mcdouglas, to life imprisonment for raping his church member’s daughter aged 18 years. The judge sentenced Mcdouglas, a pastor at the Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Lagos, to life imprisonment after he found him guilty of…
The trial of former Nigerian Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, continued on Day 18 at the Southwark Crown Court, where she mounted an extensive defence of her tenure, insisting she had limited direct control over oil contract awards and describing herself as largely a “rubber stamp” operating within a highly layered bureaucracy. She told the court…
Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has approached the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, with a petition not to allow Justice R.M. Aikawa to preside over his ongoing criminal case at the Federal High Court in Kaduna. In a petition dated April 9, 2026, the former governor called for the case to be…
A former senatorial candidate in Borno State has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the Federal High Court in Abuja for selling petroleum products to members of the Boko Haram sect. The convict, Babagana Habeeb, was found guilty on a lone-count charge of aiding and abetting terrorism brought against him by the Federal Government….
Justice Peter Odo Lifu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has sentenced a Boko Haram terrorist victim, Ali Kolo to nine years imprisonment after spending more than ten years in detention. Kolo, who was shot in the right leg by Boko Haram terrorists in Borno State while he claimed he was going to report their…
Officials of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, on Wednesday seized former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai and took him into their custody shortly after proceedings at the Federal High Court in Kaduna. Thete were reports that el-Rufai was picked ahead of his case with the ICPC on April 14, 2026…
By Crispin Oduobuk A Nigerian whistleblower’s sour-sweet situation: recognition abroad while struggling at home. Darkness has a peculiar habit. It rarely travels alone. It gathers allies. Silence. Fear. Complicity. Soon enough, a crowd forms around the shadows, and before long the darkness begins to look normal. Nigeria, it has to be said, has developed an…
A suspected hard drug dealer has reported died in court while being arraigned for been in possession of narcotics drugs. The 52-year old woman, simply identified as Titilayo on Tuesday reported slumped and died few minutes after she was arraigned at the Federal High sitting in Benin City, Edo state capital. Reports said th deceased…
