Day: August 4, 2021

Abba Kyari, suspended deputy commissioner of police, on Tuesday, appeared before the special investigation panel headed by the deputy inspector-general of police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigations Department, Joseph Egbunike. The panel sat at the Force headquarters in Abuja and ended the session at 8.p.m. The IGP Alkali Baba set up the panel following Kyari’s alleged involvement in a $1.1m Internet fraud allegedly perpetrated by suspected wire fraudster, Abbas Ramon, popularly known as ‘Hushpuppi’, and five others. The FBI had claimed that Kyari detained one Kelly Chibuzor at…

Five persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of Emeka Eloagu, an Abuja celebrity chef and Director of Helenes Food Company. It was gathered from sources that the suspects had been transferred to the Homicide Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Department. The celebrity chef was said to have been found dead in his apartment in Katampe extension, Abuja, on Sunday. A friend of the deceased said on Tuesday that the killers must have been close to the chef. The friend, who gave his name simply as Ken,…