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Nigeria Moves Closer to State Policing as Senate Approves Landmark Constitutional Reform

he Senate has passed a bill seeking to amend the 1999 Constitution to provide for the establishment of State Police Services across the federation, marking a significant step towards restructuring Nigeria’s policing architecture. If enacted, the legislation will replace the existing Nigeria Police Force framework with a dual policing structure comprising a Federal Police Service […]

Court Orders DSS Probe Into Alleged Leak of Coup Trial Evidence on Social Media

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to investigate allegations by the prosecution that part of the evidence tendered in court and served on lawyers representing the defendants had been circulated on social media. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik also directed that if any material posted online contravened the […]

Police Seize 47 Sacks of Military Camouflage, Arrest Four in Lagos

The Lagos State Police Command has intercepted 47 sacks of military camouflage uniforms and 80 cartons of suspected illicit substances in a major intelligence-led operation along the Lekki-Epe corridor. Speaking with journalists on Tuesday at the command headquarters in Ikeja, the Commissioner of Police, CP Tijani Fatai, said the truck involved was allegedly conveying the […]

Court Admits DSS Evidence in Alleged Phone-Tapping Trial of El-Rufai

Deji Adeyanju, the second prosecution witness in the trial of former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, over alleged phone tapping and breach of national security, told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the former governor admitted during a television interview that “we listened to the conversation of the NSA”. Led in evidence by prosecution […]

Court Remands Sowore in Kuje Correctional Centre Pending Hearing

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday ordered the remand of Mr. Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), in the Kuje Correctional Centre. In a brief ruling, Justice Mohammed Umar directed that Sowore be held in the correctional facility pending the hearing and determination of his motion seeking a […]

UK Court Clears Diezani Alison-Madueke of Six Bribery Charges

Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources and the first female president of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been cleared of bribery charges in the United Kingdom, according to a statement issued by her defence lawyers on Wednesday. “Diezani Alison-Madueke was cleared of six charges of bribery at Southwark Crown Court […]

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