Author: Rashaad Harris

DSP Olusegun Bamidele, who is one of the prosecution’s witnesses in the case of the murder of the CEO of Super TV, Usifo Ataga, has confirmed that Chidinma Ujukwu confessed to murdering the deceased. Bamidele, who is serving with the homicide department of the State Criminal Investigating Department (SCID) also informed the trial judge, Justice Yetunde Adesanya of the Lagos State High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square, that a maroon-colour cloth which the defendant wore on the day the deceased was murdered was also recovered from her. The witness said, “While I was investigating into the background, I…

Abba Kyari, the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police has emphasised his importance to the service security of the nation. The man who was once tagged “super cop,” said that the Kaduna Airport and Abuja-Kaduna train terrorist attacks won’t have happened if he was still in the blue and black of the Nigerian Police. Speaking through his lawyer, Nureini Jimoh, Kyari who has been locked up at the Kuje Correctional Facility in Abuja, said he deserved bail-bail the Federal High Court has refused to grant him. “Upon the incarceration of the applicants, criminality in the nation has risen up. The Kaduna…

Disgraced and suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari has expressed worry over his safety now that he’s behind bars. Abba Kyari who is incarcerated because of his involvement with popular internet fraudster, Hushpuppi, said his life is endangered because he’s sharing the same prison with IPOB and ESN members. Kyari has applied for bail at the Federal High Court through his attorney, Nureini Jimoh, but it has been rejected. A document issued by his lawyer read; “At the centre, the applicants who were head and deputy head of the Intelligence Response Team of the Nigeria Police Force met stiff…

Two people were left injured when a moving train rammed into a bus on the rail track. The accident which involved a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number EKY 888 XW occurred at the Ilupeju Bye-pass, Lagos, on Tuesday, May 10. According to eye witnesses, all vehicles plying that route were signaled to stop, but the driver of the Toyota bus wanted to do ‘fast man.’ The bus was recovered off the railway with the aid of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency’s light tow-truck and was taken to Railway Police Station, Mushin, thereby restoring the rail track to normalcy.…

A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, has sentenced Ojinnaka Malachy and Michael Kenneth Goodluck to one year imprisonment each, for  internet-related offences, also known as “Yahoo Yahoo.” They were jailed on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, after pleading guilty to one -count separate charge bordering on impersonation and obtaining by false pretence, preferred against them by the Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. One of the charge reads: “That you Michael Kennet Goodluck sometime in 2022 in Nigeria within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court with intent to obtain property and gain advantage for yourself, fraudulently presented yourself as…

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected the presidential form of the All Progressives Congress purchased for him on Monday by a group of his supporters from the north. Dr Jonathan’s Media Adviser, Ikechukwu Eze, said in a statement hours after the news that the group had bought the form for him broke that the former did not authorise the purchase and consider the move by the group ‘an insult.’ READ MORE Jonathan picks APC Presidential form by Proxy “We wish to categorically state that Dr Jonathan was not aware of this bid and did not authorise it,” the statement read…

It has come to the fore that current Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun was a convicted felon in the USA back in 1986. According to information released by the City of Miami Police, the then 26-year-old violently resisted a police officer and a Secret Service agent as they tried to execute an outstanding warrant for his arrest. His arrested was necessitated after Abiodun, now 61 years of age, failed to appear in court for a previously instituted case of credit card fraud, reveals the records seen by Switch Nigeria. The document revealed that Abiodun, on November 6, 1986, at about…

Former Welterweight Champion, Floyd Mayweather is in Nigeria to promote the sport. The 45-year-old is touring touring continent of Africa to promote his upcoming match against Don Moore. During his time in Abuja, he met with Nigeria’s Minister for Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. The American also promised to establish a boxing academy in Nigeria. Amaechi is running for president under the ruling All Progressives Congress and will be going against the likes of Tinubu, Osinbajo and Ngige in the upcoming primaries.

Former aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has announced that he will from henceforth have nothing to do with the former president should he join the APC. In a video posted on his official YouTube channel, the human rights activist said he will continue pitching his support for the PDP, as he believes it is the best vehicle to bring Nigeria out of the mess the APC regime has left it in. Watch the clip here: https://youtu.be/x3mhTDNhZX0 Switch Nigeria reported earlier that Jonathan purchased the APC Presidential ticket by proxy, as it has become the trend. Reno has…

The Kano State Police have nabbed 128 suspects in connection with crimes related to the just concluded salah celebration in the state. This was disclosed to journalists by SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, while parading the suspects at the Anti-Daba Unit of the force in Kano. He said, “One hundred and twenty eight suspected thugs (Yan Daba) were arrested between May 2 and 6, 2022, during the ‘Hawan Idi’, ‘Hawan Daushe’, ‘Hawan Nassarawa’ and ‘Hawan Fanisau’ in all the five emirate councils of the state. “The suspects were arrested with weapons, intoxicating drugs and stolen property,” which was made possible by…