Author: David Great

Gunmen kidnapped 40 people from a church in a remote town in northern Nigeria on Monday, according to a local Christian group, in the latest attack on worshippers. Armed groups, locally referred to as bandits, have kidnapped people from villages, schools, and highways, primarily in the country’s northwest, where government security is weak. The attack occurred on Sunday, according to Reverend Joseph John Hayan, chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Kaduna state, when gunmen attacked congregants during a service at Bege Baptist Church in Madala village, Chikun local government area. Chikun is one of two districts in…

The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, May 8, 2023, arraigned a businesswoman, Saadatu Ramallan-Yaro, Director, April 1616 Investment Limited and Amsaymay Limited, both Designated Non-Financial Institutions, on alleged money laundering before Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. Also arraigned along with Ramallan-Yaro but on separate charges were four companies: April 1616 Investment Limited; Misabs International Limited, Armada Financial Services and Amsamay Limited. One of the charges against Ramallan-Yaro reads: “That you, Saadatu Ramallan-Yaro, being a Director of April 1616 Investment Limited, a designated non-financial institution, on…

Justice Yelim Bogoro of a Lagos Federal High Court, today, ordered the remand of a 21-year-old lady, Cynthia Chioma Atuonah, for allegedly defrauding a German citizen, Rudolf Markus Kampf, of the sum of N110 million. Justice Bogoro ordered the remand of the lady after she pleaded not guilty to five counts charge of obtaining by false pretence, fraud and unlawful conversation made against her by the Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU), Lagos. The prosecutor, Henry Obiazi, told the court that the defendant committed the offences between January and February 2022. He told the court that the defendant succeeded in defrauding…

The Lagos Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has initiated extradition proceedings at the Federal High Court, Abuja Judicial Division, against three suspects, Samson Ogoshi, his brother, Samuel, and Ezekiel Ejemeh Robert, over exploitation of minor and production of child pornography. The Ogoshis and Ezekiel were indicted in a United States Federal Court on December 1, 2022 on charges of exploitation of minors and production of child pornography resulting in death, conspiracy to distribute child pornography and conspiracy to commit stalking through the internet. According to investigations, the suspects conspired to conduct a sex-based extortion of minors…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has zoned the speakership position for the 10th national assembly to Abass Tajudeen from Kaduna state, northwest of Nigeria. The ruling party also announced that Ben Kalu from Abia state (South East) has been nominated as the deputy speaker to Tajudeen in the 10th Assembly. The APC also zoned the Senate President to Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom) and the Deputy Senate President position to Senator Barau Jubrin (Kano). “The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) met today, Monday, May 8, 2023 to consider reports of consultations and meetings held with the president-elect,…

The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress met with Bola Tinubu, Nigeria’s president-elect, and agreed that Senator Godswill Akpabio will be the party’s sole nomination for Senate President. In a statement by Barr. Felix Morka, national publicity secretary of the APC, Senator Barau Jubrin has been nominated as the deputy senate president. Similarly, Abass Tajudeen was nominated to be the Speaker of the House of Representatives while Ben Kalu will be the party’s nominee for deputy speaker. Chronicle NG reports that Akpabio stepped down for Tinubu during the APC presidential primaries, paving way for his emergence as the party’s flagbearer.…

The death toll from floods that devastated two villages in east Democratic Republic of Congo last week has more than doubled to 401, the provincial governor said on Monday, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in the country’s recent history. More bodies were being recovered on Monday, adding to the scores of others that were wrapped in bags and piled into mass graves over the weekend, local civil society sources said. The villages of Bushushu and Nyamukubi in Kalehe territory, South Kivu province, were inundated on Thursday after days of torrential rain triggered landslides and caused rivers to…

The Lagos State Taskforce conducted a follow-up exercise and mop-up operation on the Lekki Coastal Road to reinforce its mandate of providing a calm and habitable environment for inhabitants along that axis by clearing out shanties and criminal hideouts. The operation, which began in the early hours of Sunday lasted roughly six hours. It was led by the agency’s chairman, CSP Shola Jejeloye, who said that 38 recalcitrant suspects were arrested. Jejeloye further revealed that the improvised shanties beside the roadside were dismantled to allow unfettered vehicular passage along that route. The chairman warned all squatters and unscrupulous elements who…

Gunmen shot dead a journalist late on Sunday in Bamenda, a city in Cameroon’s troubled northwest region, the local journalists’ union said, in at least the third killing of a media worker in the country this year. Anye Nde Nsoh, the west and northwest region bureau chief for weekly newspaper the Advocate, was in a pub in Bamenda’s Ntarikon neighbourhood when unidentified assailants opened fire on him, said colleague Melanie Ndefru, who was close to the scene of the attack. Earlier this year, a radio presenter and a journalist were killed in two separate attacks in or near the capital…

The Senate South East Caucus has requested that the All Progressives Congress (APC) zone the Senate Presidency of the 10th Assembly to the South-East, urging the party to rise above primordial interest. This was communicated in a signed statement in Abuja on Sunday at the conclusion of a caucus meeting. Sen. Ifeanyi Ubah (YPP-Anambra) read the communique on behalf of the South East Caucus and encouraged the president-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, to ensure that the position was allotted to the South East. “The incoming Tinubu administration must correct this anomaly by ensuring that the South-East has a chance to produce…