Month: November 2025

News

INC joins global call for exoneration of Saro-Wiwa, others

The Ijaw National Congress (INC) on Thursday joined the global call for the formal exoneration of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni eight of the allegations for which they were convicted and executed.

Prof. Benjamin Okaba, Global President, INC, made the call in his Solidarity message on the 30th anniversary of the execution of the Ogoni nine.

Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists, known as the “Ogoni Nine,” were executed by the Nigerian military government in November 1995 following a trial.

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Metro

EFCC arraigns CEO, company for multiple fraud in Kaduna

The Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Bashir Bello Ibrahim, a former Kaduna State government contractor and Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of Formal Act Legacy Limited, before Justice R. M. Aikawa of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna, for fraud.

He was arraigned on five-count charges bordering on advance fee fraud, money laundering, retention of proceeds of crime and obtaining money under false pretence.

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Health

German nurse gets life sentence for killing 10 patients to reduce his workload

A German court on Wednesday ordered a life jail sentence to a palliative care nurse for the murder of 10 patients and attempted murder of 27 others with lethal injections.

The court in the western city of Aachen found the 44-year-old man guilty of the offences committed between December 2023 and May 2024 in a hospital in Würselen near Aachen.

The court also determined that the offences carried a “particular severity of guilt” which should bar him from early release after 15 years, normally an option in such cases.

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Foreign

Singapore to introduce mandatory caning for scammers

Singapore is planning to introduce caning as a punishment for scammers.

During the bill’s second reading on Tuesday, Sim Ann, senior minister of state for home and foreign affairs, said the country lost more than $2.8 billion to scams from 2020 to the first half of 2025.

She added that around 190,000 cases of scamming had been reported during the period.

“We will introduce mandatory caning for scammers. Offenders who commit scams, defined as cheating mainly by means of remote communication, will be punished with at least six strokes of the cane,” she said.

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