Trial of a detained Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari, over his alleged non-disclosure of his assets, resumed before the Federal High Court, in Abuja, yesterday, with a witness narrating how investigations exposed that the defendant received over N200 million through 10 different bank accounts. The witness, Mr Ahmed Yero, who identified himself as a Chief Investigator with the …

A suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Abba Kyari has been released from the Kuje Custodial Centre in the Federal Capital Territory after spending 27 months in detention. Kyari was detained following his arrest on February 14, 2022, by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for alleged involvement with an international drug cartel. Kyari, along with four members of …

An Abuja Federal High Court has granted former Commander of Force Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari a two-week bail. The court said the two-week bail was to allow Kyari return home to conclude his mother’s burial rites. The court subsequently set Friday, May 31 for determination of his bail application. Kyari is facing trial for …

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has granted bail to suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari on charges bordering on money laundering. Apart from money laundering charges, Kyari is also facing a primary charge of cocaine trafficking, for which he has been denied bail. One of his lawyers, Hamza N. Dantani, shared the news of the court granting …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has explained why it resorted to the trial of the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari and his co-defendants behind closed doors. NDLEA counsel, Mr. Sunday Joseph explained to newsmen who were barred on Tuesday from covering the sitting shortly after the case was adjourned by Justice Emeka Nwite of a Federal …

One of the principal suspects in the Offa bank robbery case, Ayoade Akinnibosun, on Wednesday told a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin how the former head of the Inspector General Response Team squad, Abba Kyari tortured and promised to give him N10 million and other things to implicate a former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, in the armed …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has turned down the extradition application filed by the Federal Government, which, if granted, would have enabled it to move suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari to the United States to face trial for alleged internet fraudster. The US authorities had applied to the Federal Government for Kyari’s extradition in relation to …

Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari will know his fate on Monday when Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court rules on the Federal Government’s suit seeking his extradition to the United States. The US federal prosecutors had furnished the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mallam Abubakar Malami SAN with an alleged …

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) has dismissed as baseless reports that the suspended Inspector General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team (IGP-IRT) commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari has been attacked by fellow inmates at the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja. At the resuming hearing of his trial for alleged drug trafficking at a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) may have made a breakthrough in the investigation of alleged drug dealings involving the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team, at the time it was led by suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. The Agency announced on Monday that it has arrested Chief Afam Mallinson Emmanuel Ukatu, the suspected billionaire drug baron behind …