LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja has denied bail to suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari. In his ruling, Justice Emeka Nwite stated that the decision to grant bail lies within the court’s discretion, in accordance with section 161 (2) of the Administration of the Criminal Justice Act (ACJA). Justice Nwite…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, will still remain in the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) despite being granted bail on Thursday by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. The presiding judge, Justice James Omotosho, had granted Kyari, a former head of the Nigeria Police Response Team…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday dismissed an application requesting to strike out charges against the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. Justice Emeka Nwite dismissed the application on the ground that the court of law has the exclusive right and power to hear drug-related cases as stipulated in…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Recent photos of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari have caused a stir on social media, Naija News reports It would be recalled that DCP Kyari, once celebrated for his crime-busting adeptness, was remanded in Kuje prison after his arrest by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) The…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, on Monday, said the allegation by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, linking him to the ownership of 14 assets, including shopping mall, residential estate, polo playground, lands and farmland, was untrue. Kyari, a former Commander, Intelligence Response Team, in a statement by his lawyer,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has uncovered 14 assets, including shopping malls, residential estate, polo playground, lands and farmland belonging to a former commander, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police. Kyari was said to have failed to disclose his ownership of the properties in different locations in the Federal Capital…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit by the Federal Government seeking to extradite the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police DCP, Abba Kyari to the United States of America. The Judge in a judgment on Monday held that the Extradition request filed by the…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS0-National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has opened its case against the suspended deputy commissioner of police (DCP), Abba Kyari, before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. The agency brought a commander of narcotics attached to its forensic unit, Mrs Patricia Afolabi, to testify as its first witness. She told the…