LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS) A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the interim forfeiture of nine properties linked to Timipre Sylvia, former minister of state for petroleum resources, to the federal government. Obiora Egwuatu, presiding judge, made the order on April 24 following an ex parte application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-WhatsApp says it has banned over 6.8 million accounts linked to criminal scam centres and introduced new safety features to protect users and prevent fraud on the platform. The Vice President of Public Policy for Africa, the Middle East and Türkiye at Meta, Mr Kojo Boakye, disclosed this in a statement on…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States announced Friday that it would be returning $52.88 million in seized assets to Nigeria as part of a yearslong corruption probe against former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and associates, according to a joint statement by Nigeria’s minister of justice and the United States government. It marks the first repatriation…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has said that it is holding 12 dockworkers at the Apapa seaport in Lagos because of their significant links to the importation of 32.9 kilograms of cocaine worth over N9.5 billion in street value. A Federal High Court in Lagos had granted an application by…
