An Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has commended the Federal Capital Territory Police Command over the swift arrest of Peter Nwachukwu, the husband of late popular gospel artiste, Osinachi. Olajengbesi, in chat with The PUNCH, condemned gender-based violence and urged the police to ensure that justice is served on the death of the 42-year-old ...

Human rights lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has faulted the Nigeria Police Force over the arrest of an Abuja based legal practitioner, Abubakar Marshall. Marshall, a lawyer to activist Omoyele Sowore, was arrested on Friday by the FCT Police Command for failing to produce his client. But in a statement ...

The Gombe State Police Commissioner, Mr. Ishola Babaitan yesterday disclosed that he had arrested four Béninoise and two Nigerians over an attempt to commit fraud in Gombe. Babaitan identified the suspects as Abdullahi Yusuf Adamu, 26, from Gombe State; Jasper Jacob, 33, from Taraba State; Dafton Elysée, Hopko Adolphe, Jamal Salami and Emmanuel Haunukon are ...

The Police at the Zonal Command, Onikan, Lagos have arraigned a legal practitioner, Femi Mathew Adedoyin, 48, and his alleged accomplice, Motunrayo Abolarinwa, 54, before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court. They were arraigned for allegedly selling a building belonging to Pa. Abraham Abolarinwa for N15 million without his consent and allegedly converted the money to their ...

Eric Lira, a citizen of the United States, has been arrested for allegedly supplying performance-enhancing drugs to Nigerian sprinter, Blessing Okagbare, and other athletes that competed in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. According to a report in NBC News, prosecutors filed a criminal complaint at the Manhattan Federal Court on Wednesday alleging that Lira, a ...

The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested General Idris Bello Dambazau (Rtd.), Managing Director of Kano state’s Consumer Protection Council (KCPC), over allegations of economic sabotage. It was gathered that Dambazau was arrested for allegedly sealing off seven filling stations in the state capital, an act the secret police said was unilateral and unconstitutional. ...

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested one Okoli Collins Ikenna, whom the agency described as a “notorious drug dealer,” for allegedly masterminding recent attempts to export illicit drugs to London in the United Kingdom through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA). NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi in a statement on Sunday ...

Either out of acute ignorance of the law, diffidence towards it, naivety or a consuming passion to appear hyperactive in the eyes of Aso Rock, the Nigerian security establishment will not stop exuding sickening optics in its operations, to the shuddering embarrassment of the world. Last week, it was another time for the advertisement of ...

Effiong also tackled Buhari for “working day and night to turn Nigeria into a police state” while calling on the army to apologise to Chiwetalu.

The argument over the legality of private citizens arresting crime suspects has become a recurring debate, given that it is one of the primary duties of law enforcement agencies.

The post of prime minister is still vacant, and MPs critical of the president of Tunisia have been arrested. A week after Kais Saied took power in Tunisia, fears of an authoritarian drift prompted some observers to express their concern on Sunday.

The United States of America government has named a Nigerian celebrated police officer, Abba Kyari, among co-conspirators of Ramon Abass, aka Huspuppi, an Instagram celebrity, who has now admitted his guilt in a multi-million-dollars money laundering fraud.

Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore, and others who were arrested during a protest at the Federal High Court, Abuja have been released.

Ibrahim Salami, one of the five lawyers representing Sunday Adeyemo better known as Sunday Igboho, says he and other lawyers will never let the Yoruba youth leader get extradited to Nigeria.

Some activists, on Sunday, protested at the Masaka branch of Dunamis Church in Abuja, to demand the release of five persons recently arrested near the church.