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  The Kaduna Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 secured the conviction of one Danjuma Musa before Justice Peter Mallong of the Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna on a one count amended charge that bordered on procurement fraud. The charge reads, “That you, Danjuma Musa (while being a procurement Officer of Ahmadu Bello University) sometime in 2016 at Zaria within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court entered a collusive agreement with Gboye Surgical Equipment to inflate the prices tendered for the supply of drugs and laboratory reagents, contracts awarded by Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Nigeria which would not have been the case had there not been collusion between you and Gboye Surgical Equipment and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 58(4)(a) of the Public Procurement Act, 2007, and punishable under Section 58(6)(a) and (b) of the same Act". When the charge was read to him, the defendant pleaded ...

  The Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, arrested two ladies, Jumoke Ayodele and Opeoluwa Temitayo, for an attempt to smuggle substances believed to be hard drug to suspects in the custody of the zonal office. The substance, according to a medical officer with the Commission, is ‘colorado drug’ noted for having dire psychological effect on its abusers. The ladies on their part admitted that the substance was a hard drug, meant for the consumption of the detainees. To convey the drugs, the duo wrapped them in small cellophane packs, and tucked them inside sausages they brought for the detainees. Though EFCC detainees are fed by the Commission, they are nonetheless allowed to receive meals from their visiting relatives, which are carefully evaluated by the Commission’s officers to ensure that the detainees do not come to harm as a result of what they ingest. The suspects, Itiowe Kelvin, Oluwatobi Damilola and Ayode...

  * To reconstitute Taskforce on Illegal Street Trading and Motor Parks Rivers State Government is to set up a Judicial Panel of Inquiry to investigate the brutality and human rights abuses of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad(SARS) in the State. Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike announced this today in a State-wide broadcast to the people of the State. He said the State initially declined to set up another Panel of Inquiry as directed by the National Council of States but changed the position because of new facts and evidences on ground. "We were the first State in this country to expose the cruelties of SARS and challenged the Federal Government to rein in on this evil force but nothing happened. "We went further to set up a Judicial Panel of Inquiry which indicted operatives of the much dreaded SARS for acts of criminal misconduct, murder and gross human rights abuse. "The findings and recommendations of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry were submitted to the relevant Fe...

  ...to visit families of late victims ...says won't sign budget without adequate provision to compensate victims, police welfare The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila on Tuesday rolled out more action plans of the Green Chamber for wholesale reforms of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF). The Speaker, in an address at the commencement of Tuesday's plenary, said two weeks from now, the House will receive and immediately begin to consider legislation that seeks to establish a system of independent, responsive accountability in the police. He said the system would hold erring members of the Police Force to account for their conduct in the performance of their duties and impose civil and criminal liability for violations of the law and the Police regulations. Additionally, he said, it would ensure that officers who engage in unauthorised, unlawful use of force are expelled from office and subject to the full penalty of the law as well as prohibit, with se...

  Suspected hoodlums have set the Orile Iganmu police station in Lagos state on fire on Tuesday morning, October 20. According to reports, the hoodlums stormed the police station at about 9.45am and set the station on fire. See photos from the scene of the incident below

  20th October, 2020 3:02 PM Armed thugs have overrun a popular business district in Jos, Plateau State, unleashing mayhem in the area. #EndSARS protesters were not in the area and had never protested there since demonstrations against police brutality began in the state. The thugs in an attempt to discredit peaceful protesters took over Ahmadu Bello Way, chanting “Sai Buhari”. A restaurant, Mr Biggs, has been destroyed while cars of customers parked outside the building have been razed by the thugs. It is unclear if there are casualties at the time of this report.