CRIME
Goods Seized By Apapa Customs Worth N22.8bn In 2023 – Comptroller
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Command, said it made 54 seizures with a duty-paid value of N22.8 billion in 2023. The Customs Area Controller of the Command, Comptroller Babajide Jaiyeoba, said this in a statement on Friday in Lagos. The statement was signed by CSC Abubakar Usman, Public Relations Officer of the command. Jaiyeoba said the seizures comprise prohibited goods, foreign...
Halt Deadly, Coordinated Attacks, NADECO Tells Tinubu Over Insecurity
A Nigerian Diaspora group, National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, based in the United States of America, USA, Friday, called on President Bola Tinubu, to halt all deadly and coordinated attacks on innocent Nigerians. In a statement tagged ‘Urgent Call for Action: Addressing Key Issues in Nigeria’, and signed by the Chairman, NADECO USA, Prof Mondy Gold, expressed concern over the impunity...
Bandits On Rampage In Kaduna, Sack Ten Villages
Bandits have displaced 10 communities in Kidandan area under Giwa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State. Giwa is one of the LGAs that has been badly hit in the ongoing wave of insecurity in the North West. Some of the residents were forced to relocate to Kidandan main town and other safer communities in the LGA, Daily Trust reports. The affected...
Abducted Imo Traditional Ruler, Eze Ohiri Regains Freedom
A traditional ruler and the former chairman of the Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Samuel Agunwa Ohiri, who was abducted by gunmen, has regained his freedom. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Henry Okoye, confirmed this to journalists in Owerri on Thursday. Ohiri was abducted from his residence in the Orodo community, Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo...
Court orders Police To Pay N50m Damages To Abiola’s Wife For Rights Violation
An Abuja High Court sitting at Gudu has ordered the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, to pay the sum of N50million to Prof. Zainab Duke Abiola, wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief MKO Abiola, for violating her fundamental rights. The court, in the judgement that was delivered by Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi, further...
Police Begin Manhunt For Rivers CDC Chairman’s Murderers
Police have launched a nationwide manhunt for the killers of Ndidi Livingstone, Chairman, Community Development Committee, Mgbuoshimini community in Obio/Akpo Local Government Area of Rivers. The Commissioner of Police in the state , CP Olatunji Disu ,said this during a visit to the family of the deceased at their residence in Port Harcourt on Thursday The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports...
Cybersecurity Expert: “Yahoo Boys” Should Be Reformed By The EFCC Into IT Professionals
A cyber-security specialist, Mr Chidiebere Ihediwa has advised the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) to devise methods of re-orientating arrested educated online fraudsters (aka Yahoo Boys) to become information technology specialists. According to him, this strategy is better, rather than allowing them to languish in detention or undergo destructive dissolution. Ihediwa, also a renowned software developer, made the call on Wednesday...
IGP Launches Special Squad To Tackle Incessant Kidnappings In FCT
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, on Wednesday, launched a special team tagged the ‘Special Intervention Squad’ to reduce the spate of kidnappings in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). At the launch of the special squad in Abuja, the police boss said the team comprised specially trained mobile police officers who are expected to provide rapid response to...
Police Arrest 5 Suspects For Allegedly Inciting Violence In Kano
The police command in Kano has arrested five persons for allegedly prompting violence and constituting nuisance while celebrating the Supreme Court judgement on the state governorship election. The state Commissioner of Police, Malam Hussaini Gumel, said this in a telephone interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Wednesday Gumel said some supporters of the New Nigeria Peoples Party...
IGP Wants Increased Efforts To Fight Kidnappers In FCT
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has called for the intensification of efforts to “decimate kidnappers and other criminally-minded individuals” in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The IGP spoke on Tuesday after a meeting with the Force Management Team and Tactical Squads in Abuja following the worrying state of security in the nation’s capital. “The IGP expressed deep concern...
