Kano State government has filed an eight-count charge against Abdullahi Ganduje, former governor of the state, for allegedly collecting $200,000 from a contractor. In a charge sheet filed before the Kano high court, the state government said the offence contravened Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission Law 2008. The defendants in the case are Ganduje, Hafsat Umar, Abubakar Bawuro, Umar Abdullahi Umar, Jibrilla Muhammad, Lamash Properties Limited, Safari Textiles Limited, and Lesaga General Enterprises. The state government also accused Ganduje of collecting $210,000 kickback from “people and entities seeking or holding the execution of Kano State Government contract and…

Gunmen have reportedly abducted a yet-to-be-confirmed number of students along the east-west road in the Ughelli area of Delta state. The students were coming from Calabar, Cross River capital, when their Sienna vehicle was attacked Friday evening. Bright Edafe, Delta police spokesperson in Delta, confirmed the incident on Monday. Edafe said the police are currently on the trail of the abductors to rescue the students. The incident adds to the growing list of abductions of students in the country. On March 7, gunmen kidnapped 137 students of Government Secondary School and LEA Primary School in Kuriga community in Kaduna. Two…

The Police Command in Cross River, on Sunday, confirmed the abduction of three students of the University of Calabar (Unical). Spokesperson of the command, Irene Ugbo, who gave the confirmation, said the students were abducted Thursday night at one of the university hostels inside the campus. Ugbo, who didn’t give details of the abduction, however, said the police were working in collaboration with other agencies to rescue the students. A source who pleaded anonymity gave the names of the students as Ojang Precious Ebejin, a 200-level student of the Department of Medicine and Surgery; Ugwu Chukwuemeka, a 300-level student of…

Reactions have trailed bandits seen in viral videos displaying cash supposedly collected from victims. Videos of the ransoms were uploaded on Tiktok. The monies were seen in a series of post on X by a counter-insurgency expert and security analyst, Zagazola Makama. Makama said the user of the social network account has over 3000 followers. He noted that some of them are bandits who openly show off their rifles and are dressed in military or police uniforms. “Audacity: Bandit on Tiktok flaunting and showing off ransom money he collected from his victims.” “The user of the account has 3000 followers,…