A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, dismissed a bail application filed by ASP Bawa James, a co-defendant in the alleged drug trafficking case preferred against suspended DCP Abba Kyari and others. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, held that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) had succeeded to prove its argument beyond doubt […]

Suspected billionaire drug baron behind the N3 billion Tramadol deal involving the embattled suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Abba Kyari-led Intelligence Response Team, IRT, Chief Afam Mallinson Emmanuel Ukatu, was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. He was nabbed onboard a flight to Abuja at the MM2 terminal of […]

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, ABUJA The Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations by the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, has summoned the lawyer representing the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Abba Kyari to appear before it on April 20. The panel, which is headed by a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, Suleiman Galadima, […]

By Azu Ishiewkene ABBA Kyari’s response in July after the US Attorney General’s Office Central District of California issued a warrant of arrest against him following his indictment in a case of internet fraud involving Ramon Abbas, otherwise called Hushpuppi, was the earliest warning sign that the Nigerian end of this affair might descend into […]

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Monday, urged the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to deny the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba Kyari, bail.