Access Holdings boss, Wigwe, wife, others perish in chopper crash
Executive Officer of Access Holdings, Herbert Wigwe, and his wife, Chizoba, have died after a Chopper they were commuting in crashed in California on weekend According to reports, the chopper was headed to Las Vegas when it crashed near boulder city, which is between Nevada and California on Friday night. According to the San Bernardino […]
EFCC Arrests Five Suspected Internet Fraudsters
Operatives of Makurdi Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested five suspected internet fraudsters. They were arrested Friday, at kansho village in the Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue state, following actionable intelligence on their suspected involvement in internet – related offences. The suspects are: Shima Francis, Ode Jesse, Odey […]
Breaking! Court frees Okada rider who wrongly pleaded guilty to drug dealing
There was a mild drama at the Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday, February 8, 2024, when the judge freed a commercial motorcyclist (otherwise called an okada rider) who wrongly pleaded guilty to a drug dealing charge. Justice Akintayo Aluko discharged and acquitted Reuben Ashade of the charge filed against him by the National […]
JUST IN: Court grants suspended UNICAL Law Prof N250m bail
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday, February 9, granted bail to Professor Cyril Ndifon, the suspended dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Calabar. The judge, Justice James Omotoso, also admitted to bail one of his legal representatives, Sunny Anyanwu, who is standing trial alongside Ndifon. The defendants are […]
Customs nabs three for elephant tusk trafficking to Asia
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has arrested three persons for the alleged illegal export of elephant tusks to Asia. Nigerian Current gathered that the men were nabbed at different locations in Lagos on January 25, 2024, and February 4 and 6, 2024, for allegedly facilitating the sale and export of five pieces of elephant tusk, […]
Six charged with “assaulting” Nollywood actress Lizzy Anjorin
The police on Thursday brought four women and two men before a Tinubu Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly assaulting and blackmailing popular Nollywood actress, Lizzy Anjorin-Lawal.The six, arraigned before Magistrate A. A. Paul on a four-count charge, are Qudus Jokogbola; Suru Olawale; Edu Shakirat; Fausat Mohammed; Kafayat Ahmed and Opere Simiat Morenike. The police alleged […]
COP 10: Activists pressure Big Tobacco over health, environmental harms
Nigeria’s Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) and other Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have renewed their demand for delegates to the ongoing World Health Organisation (WHO) biennial tobacco control summit in Panamá City, Panamá to make Big Tobacco pay for its abuses. Led by the Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals (NATT) and government […]
Breaking! Court gives FG 7 days to fix price of goods, petrol products
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos Wednesday ordered the Federal Government of Nigeria to fix the price of goods and petroleum products within seven days.Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa specifically ordered the government to fix the price of milk, flour, salt, sugar, bicycles and their spare parts, matches, motorcycles and their spare parts, motor vehicles and […]
Girl Arrested with Olowofela is Kidnap Victim
More facts have emerged that Pa Olowofela, the octogenarian arrested by Kwara State Joint Security Team, is leader of a kidnapping gang that killed the Kwara monarch in Koro, Oba Olusegun Aremu-Cole. The monarch was killed on resisting orders from the abductors while his wife and other two indigenes were whisked away. The niigeriancurrent.com broke […]
Ondo Assembly confirms five nominees as commissioners
The Ondo State House of the Assembly, on Tuesday screened and confirmed five out of the six nominees forwarded to it by Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa to be confirmed as commissioners. Aiyedatiwa had on Feb. 2 submitted the names of six commissioner nominees to the State House of Assembly. The nominees screened and confirmed included Mr […]
