THE Chief Judge of Lagos State, Justice Opeyemi Oke, yesterday, granted amnesty to nine inmates of Kirikiri prisons Lagos.

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Babacir Lawal has distanced himself from the allegation of scam involving one Amina Mohammed arrested in Abuja.

Police Command in Rivers says it has arrested one Mr Princewill Owabiyo, 34, suspected to have murdered his lady friend.

A businessman, Micheal Amadi, who police accused of allegedly obtained N341,000 from a man on the pretext of procuring a visa for him, on Thursday appeared in an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

ABUJA—Acting Chairman ofEconomic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, yesterday, vowed to comply with a Federal Territory High Court order to produce former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, in court within 72 hours to stand trial for alleged graft while in office.

A prosecution witness, Inspector Ekundayo Julius yesterday told a Lagos Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja that Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana never visited suspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike also knowns as Evans.

Akure—A heavily pregnant doctor, two nurses of the Federal Medical Centre, Owo and two lecturers from the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic were reportedly kidnapped along the Akure/ Owo expressway in Ondo state on Tuesday.

Emotion ran high, yesterday, at the home of late Adeyemo Rotimi, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, official, who was shot dead last week, by an operative of the Federal Special Anti Robbery Squad, FSARS, at Iyana-Ipaja area of the state, as Rotimi’s widow broke down in tears on sighting a team of FSARS operatives.

LAGOS—JUSTICE Abdulfattah Molawale Lawal of a Lagos High Court, yesterday, ordered Samsung Heavy Industries, South Korea to remove the barricade and the electric fence it erected around the facility of Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics, LADOL. 

The police on Wednesday gave an account of how the Chairman of Young Shall Grow Motors, Chief Vincent Obianuju, was allegedly shot in a gun battle by suspected kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike (alias Evans).

A medical doctor, who is the seventh witness in the trial of a lawyer, Udeme Otike-Odibi, charged with stabbing her husband (Symphorosa) to death, says he suspects that wounds found on the accused were self-inflicted.

Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, lamented on Wednesday that 80 percent of Nigeria’s looted funds were still trapped abroad while 60 percent of the stolen wealth was hidden in Nigeria by fraudulent and highly placed persons he described as ‘sharks’.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says the commission will comply with the court order to produce former Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs Deziani Allison-Madueke for alleged fraud.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested nine Internet fraudsters popularly known as Yahoo-Yahoo boys, in Abuja.

Political thugs, weekend, stormed the house of Nigeria’s former Minister of Commerce, Bello Maitama, and vandalised two of his official vehicles and that of the Speaker, Jigawa State House of Assembly, Isa Idris.