CRIME
Two One-Chance Robbers Escape Being Set Ablaze As They Receive Merciless Beating (Photos)
A two-man robbery gang which allegedly specializes in robbing passengers of their belongings, popularly called one-chance has escaped being burnt alive in Umuahia, Abia State capital, ABN TV reports. According to sources familiar with their modus operandi, the suspects who operate with tricycles, better known as keke usually hypnotize their victims or threaten them with sharp objects, before robbing them...
Security Expert, Ray Nkemdirim Wants Inclusion Of AI In Fight Against Insecurity
A renowned security expert and former Director of Operations of the Department of State Services (DSS), Chief Ray Nkemdirim, has called for a revolution in the usage of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa to curb the continent’s rising security challenges. He made the call at the National Institute for Security Studies Abuja on Tuesday, while addressing participants of Executive Intelligence...
I Will Resign If Yahaya Bello Is Not Prosecuted – EFCC Chairman Vows
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has vowed to resign if embattled former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello is not prosecuted. In an interactive session with selected editors on Tuesday at the EFCC headquarters located in Jabi, Abuja, the anti-graft agency chairman vowed that all those who obstructed the arrest of the former governor would...
You Didn’t Invite Me – Ex-Kogi Gov, Yahaya Bello Counters EFCC
The immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has denied that he refused to honour an invitation from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The EFCC had said the embattled former governor was invited for an interrogation on January 27 this year, but shunned the summon, thereby declaring him a fugitive after the attempt to arrest him in...
Ex-CBN Gov Emefiele In Fresh Trouble As EFCC Says He Printed N684.5m With N18.9bn
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a fresh charge at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory against the embattled former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. EFCC in the charge accused Emefiele of approving the printing of N684,590,000 at the rate of N18.96 billion. In the charge sheets sighted by ABN TV on...
Army Sacks Officials Over Alleged Theft At Dangote Refinery
The Nigerian Army has dismissed two of its personnel with immediate effect for an alleged role in a reported theft at the Dangote refinery in Lagos. The Director of Army Public Relations, Onyema Nwachukwu disclosed this in a statement on Monday, saying the soldiers identified as Corporal Innocent Joseph and Lance Corporal Jacob Gani, had been handed over to the...
UN Challenges Nigeria, African Leaders To Renew Social Contract With Citizens In Order To End Terrorism
The Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Ms Amina Mohammed, suggested that one of the ways to remove the enablers of terrorism on the continent is for Africa to work to rebuild its social contract with its citizens, and deliver good governance. “Rebuilding the social contract is necessary for recovery. We must pay attention to women and girls who...
IGP Says Nigeria Not Mature For State Police, Wants NSCDC, FRSC Merged As A Dept In NPF
Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has said Nigeria is not “mature” for state police. Egbetokun said this at a national dialogue on state police organised by the house of representatives in Abuja, on Monday. The theme of the dialogue is ‘Pathways to Peace: Reimagining Policing in Nigeria”. The IGP, who was represented by Ben Okolo, an Assistant Inspector-General of Police, said the...
Proprietor Of Hustle Kingdom In Uyo Bags 10 Years Jail Term
The proprietor of the Uyo Cybercrime Training Centre, also known as Hustle Kingdom, Ikemesit Edet, has been sentenced to ten years in jail for fraud. The Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday, arraigned Edet for impersonation, love scam, hacking/editing of social media accounts, and private criminal tutoring. According to the EFCC in a statement on...
Military Confirms Killing Of Six Soldiers In Fresh Ambush In Niger, Spits Fire
The military high command, on Sunday said marauding terrorists, who recently killed some of its personnel in Niger State will pay dearly for the dastardly act, saying they would be hunted down by fire by force. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Edward Buba, who stated this on Sunday and vowed that there would be “injurious consequences” for the act. Bandits had...
