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(Nigeria) The Force Management Team has taken a step towards the restoration of civil authority in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe state, some of the liberated areas in the North East as it deployed the Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of Department of Operations, DIG Sotonye Wakama, to move with a team of intelligence officers to the area for need assessment and other scooping activities.

(Nigeria) Justice Husseini Baba Ahmed of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court on Thursday, compelled the federal government to produce the embattled former National Security Adviser, NSA, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd), in court to answer criminal charges brought against him.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court in Lagos has adjourned till February 25, 2016 for hearing of the suit by a lawyer, Kabir Akingbolu, challenging the decision of the Federal Ministry of Works and the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA, to stop the Lagos State Government from completing the construction of Alausa overhead bridge forming part of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

(Nigeria) Edo State governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole said there was nothing wrong handcuffing Mr. Olisah Metuh, the Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to answer to charges of corruption levelled against him in relation to the $2.1bn arms fund.

  (Nigeria) Incarcerated leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu,  Wednesday, pleaded not guilty to ‎the six-count criminal charge of treasonable felony preferred against him by the Federal Government before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

(Nigeria) The Federal Government has been ordered to produce former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasiki (retd) in court on February 16 to answer criminal charges filed against him.

(Nigeria) A Minna Magistrates' Court, Niger State on Tuesday remanded one Yahaya Garba, 27, in prison custody for allegedly raping a seven-year-old girl.

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, spokesman Oliseh Metuh, bail in the sum of N400 million and two sureties in like sum.

(Nigeria) A 27-year-old bricklayer, Chinoso Chukwumeziri, who allegedly fingered a lonely minor in her parents’ home, was on Tuesday charged before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court.

(Nigeria) The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN has said that “corrupt judges will go to jail as the government of President Muhammadu Buhari will actively promote and ensure that corrupt judges are prosecuted and their illegally acquired assets are returned to the state.

(Nigeria) The Edo State Police Command has recovered more than 32 sophisticated guns with several ammunition from suspected criminals in the last five months.

(Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has alerted the public to be wary of fraudsters using the name of its acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu, for fraudulent activities on Facebook.

(Nigeria) A 58-year-old driver, Emmanuel Egejuru was on Monday arraigned in an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, for allegedly defiling an 11-year-old girl.

(Nigeria) An Ile-Ife Chief Magistrate's Court in Osun State on Monday remanded a 25-year-old man, Seun Adeoti, in prison custody, over the alleged rape of three girls.

(Nigeria) The Police in Akwa- Ibom State say they have killed two of a three-man suspected kidnap gang in a gun battle at Idu-Uruan, Uruan Local Government Area of the state.

(Nigeria) The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said on Sunday that it arrested 186 drug suspects in Cross River State in 2015.

(Nigeria) A Gudu Upper Area Court in the FCT on Thursday remanded a 44-year-old driver, Ayodele Obayelu, in prison for alleged rape of an 18-year-old girl.  

(Nigeria) A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday, issued a bench warrant of arrest on a Niger Delta militant, Government Ekpemupolo, a.k.a. ``Tompolo’’.

(Nigeria) The Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Federal Operation Unit, Zone C, on Wednesday in Benin, Edo State destroyed 1, 500 cartons of imported frozen products valued at N15 million.

(Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, arraigned one Felix Tangwami, former chairman Demsa Local Government Area of Adamawa state, before Justice Helen Joda of Adamawa State High Court, sitting in Yola, on a five-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretense to the tune of N981. 468 million.