The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, will not be released from Kuje prison despite being granted bail in the sum of N50 million by a Federal High Court. The embattled Kyari was granted bail on Thursday after about 18 months in prison custody. According to the Judge, Kyari and his team…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail at N50million to suspended DCP Abba Kyari in a charge in which he and two of his siblings are accused of failing to declare assets to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The NDLEA had filed the 24-count charge, marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/408/2022 against Kyari and his…
President Muhammadu Buhari has listed his late Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari and 436 other nominees for the 2022 National Honours Award. Truetells Nigeria reports that the investiture is billed to hold on 11 October 2022 at the State House in Abuja. Among those to be honoured by Buhari are presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, and the Director General…
FG has filed 24 charges against Abba Kyari after uncovering 14 assets linked to the former commander of the Intelligence Response Team. Shopping malls, residential estate, polo playground, lands and farmlands belonging to Abba Kyari were uncovered by the FG in different locations in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and Maiduguri, Borno State. …
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 29-year-old socialite Ms. Onuorah Caritas Onyinye for alleged drug trafficking. Onyinye, who was popularly known as Smart Beyonce and notorious for going braless was arrested at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu on arrival on an Ethiopian airline flight from Addis Ababa. SaharaReporters reliably gathered…
At least 10 inmates and a Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Officer were killed by gunmen suspected to be members of Ansaru terrorists group during an attack on the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Truetells Nigeria reports that the gunmen had used bombs to forcibly gain control of all entry…
Most of the 700 inmates at the Kuje correctional facility in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory have escaped, Truetells Nigeria understands. Truetells Nigeria reports that the facility was ruined by the heavy firepower brought by the assailants. SaharaReporters also learnt that other inmates have been removed from the facility including the suspended deputy commissioner of…
A Federal High Court, Abuja, has convicted and sentenced two co-defendants in a suit filed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) against suspended DCP Abba Kyari, who hitherto headed the Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, over an alleged drug deal for two years imprisonment. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a judgment delivered today June…
Suspended Intelligence Response Team leader, Abba Kyari, recently escaped attempted murder by aggrieved inmates at the Kuje prison who accused him of not honouring his bribe-for-release deals when he was in active service. According to a report by Premiumtimes, the attack occurred on May 4th and there are attempts to move Kyari from Kuje prison where he…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says that the ongoing investigation of a billionaire drug baron, Chief Afam Mallinson Ukatu, has led to the discovery of how he imported into Nigeria in a single month, October 2019, two containers containing 1,284 cartons of Tramadol with market value of over N22billion. This was contained in…
