Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Hashimu Argungu, has stated that he is in the State to fight crime and criminals, warning that the Command should not be dragged into the political bickering between the state executive and the legislature.

The Federal Government is to spend N2.8 trillion in the next five years in the implementation of the 250-point police reform agenda, the Minister of Police Affairs, Dr. Yakubu Lame, stated yesterday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

A 75-year-old woman and mother of the Group Managing Director of an old generation bank, Mrs. Maria Adigwe, kidnapped Tuesday, last week, yesterday regained her freedom after spending a week in captivity.

It was all tears yesterday as Justice Oluwayemi of a Lagos High Court ordered that actress and former beauty queen, Ibinabo Fiberesima, be remanded at the female prison in Kirikiri pending a ruling on her application for bail.

Magistrate A.I. Adelaja, trying the case involving Chairman, Ogun State House of Assembly Committee on Information, Honourable Tokunbo Oshin, yesterday refused to sign his bail bond, after granting him bail in the sum of N500,000.

A Quantity Surveyor with the Federal Ministry of Works, Housing and Urban Development, Mr. Olanrewaju Yusuf Olaleye, yesterday reaffirmed what some of the prosecution witnesses in the on-going trial of Chief Olabode George and five others had earlier told the

The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) on Monday announced the suspension of Ahichie Sunny-James Ezuma, alias James Ezuma, who is accused of selling babies and conducting illegal adoption in Aba.

COURT in Arua has sentenced Castro Budebo, 47, to 17 years imprisonment for robbery.

His throat was slit and his forehead crushed with a stone before his body was dumped in a bush between Kyaddondo Rugby Club and the Umeme power plant in Industrial Area, Lugogo, Kampala.

The Gambian leader, Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, has warned foreign nationals resident in The Gambia to avoid violating the laws of the country.

Drunken revellers in Ratholo had a rude awakening on Saturday when they were dispersed by the traditional vigilante squads (mephato) in a crime prevention strategy started in the village in January. The vigilante squad ordered all bars and drinking spots

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), yesterday stepped up contingency plans to prevent a banking crisis which could include the acquisition by a stronger rival of any bank facing solvency problems.

Officials from Fina Bank over the weekend visited Gisimba Orphanage in Nyamirambo and donated scholastic materials, as part of the bank's Social Corporate Responsibility.

THE Central Bank (CBN) has stepped up contingency plans to prevent a banking crisis which could include the acquisition by a stronger rival of any bank facing solvency problems, the apex bank's governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, said yesterday.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, on Monday, assured wary Nigerians that the country's apex bank will do everything to ensure that no bank fails following the crippling global economic crisis.

PostBank has introduced Kyapa loans designed for tenants who wish to acquire titles from land owners.

The outgoing World Bank (WB) Country Manager Victoria Kwakwa has expressed optimism on the country's development trends, saying she leaves with a very good impression.

The new helmsman of the reconstituted Joint Task Force (JTF), code-named Operation Restore Hope, Major-Gen Sarkin Yaki Bello, has vowed to go after retired generals and military officers involved in illegal bunkering of oil.

STANBIC Bank's net profits grew by 48.2% to sh78.6b in 2008 driven by solid growth in commissions, fees and trading income, audited financial results have shown.

JOSEPH Banda - the first victim of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's farm mechanisation audit that started last month - yesterday had his trial date set for April 20.