The Joint Task Force (JTF) yesterday said it had destroyed over 300 illegal refineries in Delta and Bayelsa States just as it has handed-over ten suspects arrested recently for illegal oil bunkering activities to the EFCC in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
The President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria(ICAN) Dr Richard Uchechukwu Uche, yesterday called on Nigerian auditors to adhere to the strict application of auditing standard in the country.
The Police yesterday arraigned two chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP], Messrs Imeh Albert Akpan and Stephen Oru before an Abuja high court sitting at Gudu for allegedly forging the signature of former National Chairman of the party, Ahmadu
Mrs. Abimbola Coker, Secretary, Nigerian Law Reform Commission (NLRC), said yesterday that the Commission would review and reform laws relating to rape and other sexual related offences.
The traditional ruler of Abala Autonomous Community in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia State, Eze Wilson Nna and his wife Rose, were early Saturday morning murdered in cold blood by yet to be identified gun-men.
Police have arrested 13 students of Happy Hours High School and three teachers for sitting Primary Leaving Examinations. The students, whose identities had not yet been revealed by press time, were arrested at Happy Hours Primary School in Kawempe for
Residents in Asaba, Delta State capital heaved a sigh of relief yesterday followed the successful confrontation of armed robbery suspects leading to the killing of three of them.
Three staff of a new generation bank have been arrested by operatives from the Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Milverton Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, for allegedly colluding with four other persons to fraudulently transfer N419 million from dormant accounts into other corporate
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced seven drug traffickers arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja to 46 and half years imprisonment.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has stopped the disbursement of N1 billion unsecured loan to politicians in Ondo State, it emerged on Wednesday.
The public is keenly following the Government's handling of the Bank of Tanzania External Payments Arrears (EPA) account scandal in which a whopping Sh133 billion was fraudulently paid out to 22 companies.
Some of the accused charged with the theft of Sh 133 billion from the External payment arrears (EPA) account appear in court in Dar es salaam yesterday
Counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Wahab Shittu yesterday in Lagos said the commission was ready to prosecute governors found to be corrupt while in office.
Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, has identified militancy in the oil rich Niger Delt and incidences of bank robberies as the highest challenges facing the police, saying however that the security situation in the country has improved with
When, soon after his inauguration last year, President Umaru Yar'Adua made public the contents of his asset declaration form, laying bare his total net worth, not a few Nigerians hailed this unprecedented presidential openness that hallmarked probity and accountability in
New strategies to fight corruption among which is the creation of Anti-Corruption Volunteer Corps (ANCOVOC)are under way, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri has announced, saying the Corps shall act chiefly as 'whistle blowers'.
Reports that thousands of people in eastern Uganda face the risk of losing billions of shillings in a deposit scam masterminded by TEAM Ltd, warrant an outright Parliamentary investigation.
