The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said Monday that Alhaji Babalele Abdullahi, the son-in-law of the defeated Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, was being detained over alleged money laundering amounting to €150 million.
Barely one week after one soldier and six persons were killed in Abonnema, Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State during the Presidential and National Assembly elections, two soldiers have again been killed at a military checkpoint along Obonoma-Abonnema Road in the same local government area.
The violence that trailed the election in the area led to the suspension of election in the area. Residents also claim that more than 17 persons, mostly youths, have been killed in the community in reprisals by the military.
The Kaduna State Government said it would set up a judicial commission of inquiry into the recurring killings in Kajuru and Kachia Local Government Areas of the state.
Gov. Nasir El-Rufai made the statement on Saturday when he visited Maro, Karamai and Sakiya communities in the area where 40 persons were killed on Tuesday in alleged reprisal attacks.
The 6 Division Nigerian army, PortHarcourt, has paraded 11 National Youth Service Corps Members, 43 others over alleged electoral fraud in Rivers State.
The corps members were said, to have been arrested in a hotel in Gokana Local Government Area of the State filling result sheets in favour of a political party during the Presidential and National Assembly elections last week.
Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Thursday arrested Dennis Agya Kiyeye, 52, for impregnating and attempting to murder his niece.
The suspect allegedly defiled and impregnated the 15-year-old niece at Ilupeju village in Gbonyin Local Government area of Ekiti state.
The ECOWAS Court of Justice sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday ordered the Federal Government to investigate the 2016 mass killings and destruction of properties in the Agatu Community in Benue State, identify and prosecute the perpetrators and redress the victims.
Delivering judgment in a suit brought by a catholic priest, Reverend Father Solomon Mfa, and eleven others, a three member panel of the Court found the government in ‘violation of their obligation to protect the human rights of the Agatu Community and prevent its violation.’
One of the most powerful men in the Roman Catholic Church was found guilty of multiple historical child sex offenses at a secret trial in Melbourne in December, the existence of which can only now be revealed.
R. Kelly was released from jail on Monday afternoon after being indicted by a grand jury on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against four alleged victims, Cook Country Sheriff confirms to PEOPLE.
The R&B singer secured his release by paying 10 percent of his $1 million bail amount.
Police in Kenya say they have a busted a seven-man syndicate which allegedly impersonated President Uhuru Kenyatta and other government officials to defraud local business tycoon Naushad Merali of a huge sum of money.
R. Kelly stayed in jail over the weekend after he couldn’t make bail. A judge set his total bond at $1 million, one day after he was indicted on 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse against four victims.
Musician R. Kelly, real name Robert Kelly, was given a $1 million bond by a Chicago judge on Saturday, just one day after he was arrested. The R&B artist does not have the funding to immediately post bail, according to his lawyer Steve Greenberg.
Greenberg said the musician is confident he will be able to produce the money, as reported by ABC correspondent Linsey Davis on Twitter Saturday afternoon. According to Davis, Kelly also owes close to $162,000 in child support.
For more than two decades, the R&B singer R. Kelly has been trailed by allegations of sexual misconduct. He was married to a young singer who turned out to be 15 years old. There were claims that he controlled women in a cultlike atmosphere. He was linked to an infamous sex tape. None of it meaningfully stood in his way.
