CRIME
“South African Court Jails Nigerian, Local Accomplice For 37 Years Over Major Drug Trafficking Case”
A South African court has sentenced a Nigerian national, Victor Udoh, and his South African accomplice, Vuyisekha Mzwakhe, to a combined 37 years in prison after finding them guilty of drug trafficking and related offences. According to South Africa–based Nova News, the Oudtshoorn Regional Court handed the 33-year-old Udoh a 22-year sentence — 20 years for drug-dealing and two years...
Abia Police Launch Manhunt Against Killers Of Soldier In Aba (Photos)
The Commissioner of Police, Abia State Command, CP Danladi Isa, on Friday confirmed the killing of an officer of the Nigerian Army identified as Lance Corporal David on November 21, 2025. ABN TV had exclusively reported the killing, suspected to be cult-related, last month. https://youtu.be/Y3DTjnsnT2o But responding to questions on the matter during his end-of-the-year media briefing in his office on Friday,...
Police Arrest 809 Crime Suspects, Recover 88 Firearms In Abia In 2025 — CP Isa (Video)
The Abia State Police Command has recorded significant operational successes in 2025, arresting a total of 809 crime suspects and recovering 88 firearms in 438 criminal cases handled between January 2025 and date. https://youtu.be/P-9kU9u5pSw The Commissioner of Police, Danladi Isa, disclosed this on Friday while briefing journalists at the Command Headquarters in Umuahia on the operational strategies and achievements of the...
Abia Police Bust Child-Trafficking Rings, Rescue Over 20 Stolen Children Across States (Video)
The Abia State Police Command has recorded a major breakthrough in the fight against child trafficking with the arrest of multiple suspects and the rescue of several stolen children and infants across Abia, Lagos, Anambra, Ebonyi and neighbouring states. https://youtu.be/P-9kU9u5pSw In one case, operatives arrested Mrs. Chinasa Ukachukwu and Adaoma Sunday after Chinasa reportedly left home with four children and returned...
Tinubu Under Probe, Says EFCC
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, says a former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is under investigation. In an exclusive interview published by ThisDay on Sunday, Bawa said investigation does not end in a day. He said: “You asked me a question earlier about arresting...
Nigerian, 29 Declared Wanted By US For Allegedly Defrauding Hospital $31m
A 29-year-old Nigerian man, Chidozie Collins Obasi, has been declared wanted in the United States for alleged fraud. The Nigerian is accused of allegedly defrauding US hospitals of $31 million by offering non-existent COVID-19 ventilators for sale. This was disclosed in a statement by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday. It added that the suspect perpetrated the scheme from Nigeria...
ICPC Discovers Duplicated Projects Worth N400bn, N50bn Ghost Workers’ Salaries In Budgets
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on Thursday said the 2021 and 2022 budgets were padded with duplicated projects worth N400bn by ministries, departments and agencies. الربح الحقيقى من الانترنت It also said N49.9bn was earmarked as salaries for ghost workers in the first half of 2022. ICPC Chairman, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, stated this during an interactive...
It’ll Take Collective Will, Resolve Of All Nigerians To End Corruption — Dariye
A former governor of Plateau State Joshua Dariye says “with collective will and the resolve of every Nigerian”, corruption will be ended in the country. The ex-governor, who spoke on Channels Television’s NewsNight programme aired on Monday, said his conviction alongside a former governor of Taraba State Jolly Nyame for corruption charges has not in any way ended graft which...
Court Convicts Mama Boko Haram Over N34m Fraud
The Borno State High Court in Maiduguri has convicted and sentenced, Aisha Alkali-Wakil, also known as Mama Boko Haram, as well as one Tahiru Saidu-Daura and Lawal Shoyode to seven years imprisonment. They were prosecuted by the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a three-count charge of conspiracy and cheating to the tune of...
Alleged Bank Fraud: EFCC Arrests Kogi Assembly Candidate With $610,500 Cash In Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the Kogi State House of Assembly candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Ismaila Atumeyi, with N326 million and $140,500 cash. Atumeyi who is seeking to represent Ankpa 11 Constituency in the Kogi State House of Assembly was arrested on Sunday, October 30, 2022, alongside one Joshua Dominic, an alleged serial fraudster,...
