CRIME
EFCC Declares Ex-Zamfara Governor, Matawalle Wanted
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared the immediate past governor of Zamfara, Bello Matawalle, wanted over alleged corruption while in office. A top security source confided in ABN TV that the EFCC, on Saturday, asked the Department of State Services (DSS) to arrest EFCC declares Matawalle wanted The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared the immediate...
Former GM Umuahia Capital Development Authority, Nwokonta Dies In Auto Crash
The immediate past General Manager of the Umuahia Capital Development Authority (UCDA), Abia state, Chief Enyinnaya Nwokonta had died, ABN TV reports. He died in a ghastly road accident involving his private vehicle while on his way to Umuahia in the early hours of Monday. Popularly known as Pocket, he was said to have had a head-on collision with an articulated...
NDLEA Secures Conviction Of 5,147 Drug Offenders, 35 Barons In Two Years — Marwa
Chairman National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Buba Marwa has said 5, 147 drug offenders, including 35 drug barons, have been successfully prosecuted and convicted in the past two and half years. This was even as he disclosed that within the period, 31, 675 were also arrested for drug-related offenses. Marwa, represented by the Agency’s Secretary, Shedrack Haruna, made the disclosure...
EFCC Frees Ex-Gov Ortom After 10 Hours Grill
After spending over 10 hours at the Makurdi office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, former Governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom has been released by the anti graft agency. The Governor had Tuesday morning at about 10am reported at the Zonal Office of the Commission following an invitation from the office. It was gathered that the former Governor...
Police Arrest 11 Kidnap, Robbery Suspects In Bayelsa
11 suspected kidnappers and armed robbers wreaking havoc in different parts of Bayelsa state have been arrested. Commissioner of Police in Bayelsa State, Mr. Romokere Ibani, made this known on Tuesday. Speaking while parading the suspects at the police headquarters in Yenagoa, Ibani said the command strategies have helped in achieving results in fighting crime in the state. He said the commendable successes in...
Adamawa Man Strangles, Beheads Brother, Dismembers Body
A man suffering from epilepsy, Amos Christopher, has been apprehended by the Adamawa State Police Command for allegedly beating his four-year-old brother, Thyson, to death. Amos, a 24-year-old who lives in Dobi village in Ga’anda District, Gombi Local Government Area, allegedly committed the act in one of the apartments in their home on June 19, 2023. A statement by the Adamawa...
Two Suspects Arrested In Ekiti For Stealing Fuel From Govt Generator
Operatives of Rapid Response Squad, Ekiti State Police Command, have arrested two suspects involved in siphoning diesel from the generating plants used in powering street lights in Ado Ekiti, the state capital. The Police Public Relations Officer, Sunday Abutu, said on Thursday that the two suspects, Danjuma and Idowu, were arrested on Wednesday by men of the RRS along NTA...
Court Sentences Popular Singer Shallipopi, Others To 2 Years Imprisonment For Internet Fraud
The Kaduna Zonal Command of the EFCC has secured the conviction of singer and TikTok music celebrity, Crown Uzama & 5 others before Justice A.A Isiaka on separate one count charge bordering on criminal impersonation, offences contrary to Sections 142 (1) , 57 & 308 of the Kaduna Penal Code Law, 2017 & punishable under Section 309 of the...
Appeal Court Upholds Conviction Of Senator Akpan, Orders His Arrest Over N240m Fraud
The Calabar Division of the Court of Appeal, on Friday, upheld the conviction of Senator Bassey Albert Akpan on money laundering charges by a Federal High Court, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, and ordered his arrest. On December 1, 2022, Justice Agatha Okeke found Akpan, then governorship candidate of the Young Progressive Party, YPP, guilty of seven counts of money laundering...
How Abia Teacher Who Allegedly Attempted To Traffick Students Was Nabbed
A secondary school teacher, Ikechukwu Uduma, and his accomplice, Enyiazu Godswill, have been arrested by officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Abia State, for attempting to traffick two female students. The state NSCDC Commandant, Paul Igwebuike, while briefing the press, said the suspects were apprehended around 12.20am on Thursday. Parading the men before journalists in Umuahia on Friday,...
