CRIME
FG Says It Has Identified 100 High Risk Sponsors Of Terrorism In Nigeria
The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, said weekend the federal government has identified 100 high-risk financiers of Boko Haram, According to him, the financiers have links to at least 10 countries of the world. Aregbesola made the disclosure at the 3rd Ministerial Conference on Counter-Terrorism Financing, with the theme, “No Money for Terror”, which took place in India. The minister, who disclosed...
Nigeria Deploys 65 Troops To Help In Bringing Stability In Mali
Sixty-five troops of the Nigerian Medical Contingent 9, Level II Hospital have been deployed to Mali as part of the United National Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the region. The troops have undergone an intensive three weeks of training and have been equipped with weapon training, protection of civilians, conflict-related sexual violence, child protection and sexual exploitation and abuse of...
Fear Grips Zamfara Residents As Deadline For Payment On N20m Protection Levy By Bandits Approaches
Residents of Gidan-goga village in the Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State are panicking as the deadline given to them by bandits to pay a levy of N20m draws near. A bandits kingpin, Bello Turji, had told the community that the N20m must be paid on or before Sunday this week. He threatened to attack the village if the money...
Court Orders EFCC To Arrest, Detain Imo Deputy Speaker
Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday granted an order to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to arrest and detain the Deputy Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Amarachi Iwuanyawu, over an alleged N785m fraud. The Deputy Speaker was also said to be the Chairman of an Abuja-based Sun Gold Estate Limited, the firm he allegedly...
EFCC, NDA To Collaborate On Cybersecurity
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa on Wednesday, 23 November, 2022 restated the desire of the Commission to intensify its training collaboration with the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA especially in the area of cybersecurity to tackle emerging threats. He stated this when he received Major Gen. I.M Yusuf, Commandant NDA at the Commission`s...
Notorious Terrorist, Turji Bello Orders Detention Of Zamfara Residents For Paying N10.5 Protection Levy Instead Of N20m
Bello Turji, notorious bandits’ leader, has reportedly held five residents of Moriki town in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State captive. The victims were said to have been held after they delivered N10.5 million “Protection Levy” slammed on their community. A couple of weeks ago, Turji imposed N20 million “Protection Levy” on Moriki community which is located 33km along Kaura...
Three Months After Reconciliation, Wife Stabs Husband To Death Over Sexual Advances In Oyo
A 27-year-old housewife, Odunayo Olumale has stabbed her husband, Olamilekan Salahudeen to death for making sexual advances to her. The incident happened three months after the couple reconciled and reunited following their separation. Speaking in Ibadan while parading the suspect at the Oyo Police Command headquarter, Eleyele, Ibadan, yesterday, Police spokesman, Adewale Osifeso, said preliminary investigation showed that the deceased and...
Residents Panic As Another Lifeless Body Surfaces In Umuahia City (Graphic Photos)
Residents of Umuahia, Abia State capital are currently in fear following the discovery of another lifeless body in the street in the early hours of Wednesday. This is one of the series of lifeless bodies discovered in the street of the capital city in recent times. The latest was sighted around Ozuitem by Owerri road Umuahia, sending fear in the minds...
Bandits Who Kidnapped Four Persons In Zamfara Say They Want Their Ransom In New Naira Notes
Bandits have abducted four people in the Kolo village of Gusau Local Government Area in Zamfara State and refused to collect old naira notes as ransom. The bandits earlier demanded N10m as ransom but after the negotiation, they agreed to collect N5m. Sources from the area also said that as the villagers were trying to get the money through communal effort,...
Herdsmen Attack Rivers Community, Kill Two
Suspected killer herdsmen have allegedly invaded Agbeta II Tuabon Community in Ebubu Clan, Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State and reportedly killed two persons. The killers had attacked the community last Sunday and killed two men and injured some other persons. It was gathered that since March that the community farmlands have been invaded repeatedly and that the intruders allegedly...
