Former University of South Florida student Ahmed Mohamed received a maximum 15-year federal prison sentence Thursday for providing material support to terrorists.In court, U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday pondered the 27-year-old's potential aloud, gazing ...This story comes to us

Nobody, not even his implacable critics, would fault the unparalleled achievement of Citizen Mohammadu Nuhu Ribadu while he called the shots at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. His Promethean approaches to crime combating was worthy of note. He broke

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has urged corporate organizations to remit taxes on Pay as You Earn (PAYE) system to government or face severe sanction even as he threatened to personally lead prosecution of companies and individuals who defaults

AS I write this, 1 still have not come to terms with the sudden departure of my dearly beloved husband, Modebayo Odunbayo Awosika, which occurred so mysteriously and tragically on October 1, 2008. It is very hard to speak of

A housewife, Mrs. Gift Augustine Omini Iwara and her five children in Ugep, in Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State, have narrowly escaped death.The end almost came at the hands of her husband's political opponents allegedly led by

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) was on Wednesday quizzed by the House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption over application fees charges for its 2008 recruitment exercise despite a standing resolution of the House banning the

Police are searching for an 11-year-old Mitchells Plain boy after his neighbours told police conducting raids in the area that he was a known drug dealer.

A 23-year-old man, accused of raping a woman in the toilets at Silverstream beach on Saturday, was expected to appear in the Atlantis Magistrate's Court on Wednesday.

Trawler operators in the country have lost over N3 billion to piracy along the nation's territorial waters between 2002 and 2008.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) yesterday said it has returned N430 million to victims defrauded by stock brokers.

Hundreds of placard-carrying protesters from Imo state yesterday besieged the premises of the National Assembly to protest the screening of the former governor of the state, Chief Achike Udenwa by the senate as a ministerial nominee.

COURT on Monday jailed a 40-year-old man for 12 years for manslaughter. Paul Kabesindire of Kanywameizi village, in Isingiro district beat his wife, Provia Ahimbisibwe to death on the night of February 19, 2004.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's fight against corruption featured prominently at a year-end press conference hosted Thursday at the Foreign Ministry in Monrovia.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), said it has shifted its operation to other sectors of the economy that were hitherto not under its surveillance with the view to uprooting all investments that were funded with illegal fortune.

The Oyo State Government has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to compel the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to release to the state (Oyo) all recovered funds from the former governor of the state, Chief Rashidi

THE death toll in last Saturday's clash between two rival cult groups in Awka, Anambra State has risen to about 20, even as it has been confirmed that no student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University was involved.

REGIONAL Transmission Manager of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, Port Harcourt Region, Mr. Akinniranye Olusola has appealed to electricity consumers in the region to maintain vigilance over power installations to forestall power blackout during the yuletide.

Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, former minister of the FCT, has dragged the EFCC to the Federal High Court, Abuja. He wants the court to restrain the EFCC from declaring him wanted, or arresting, intimidating or harassing him, pending the determination of