CRIME
Bandits Demand Rice, Cough Syrup, N290m For Release Of 7 Hostages
Bandits who abducted seven residents of Kuduru community in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory FCT on December 28 have demanded N290 million ransom, drugs and foodstuffs to release the hostages. The victims, including a pregnant woman, three children and four adults, have now spent one month and four days in captivity. A leader in the community (names withheld)...
Explosion Rocks Imo, Several Persons Feared Dead
An explosion from an illegal oil bunkering has rocked the serene oil bearing Obitti Community in the Ohaji/Egbema Council Area of Imo State. The explosion, which claimed several lives, properties and farmland estimated at several millions of naira reportedly arose from the activities of some hoodlums who dug a deep hole in a nearby bush, fixed a long pipe in...
Ibadan Blast: Declare All Explosives Within 72 Hours, Makinde Tells Companies
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday, signed into law Executive Order 001, 2024 on the handling and storage of harmful substances in the state. In a section of the order, the governor gave 72 hours ultimatum to anyone in the state in possession of any kind of explosives to declare them. The new law came about two weeks after an...
EFCC Links Laundered N7bn To Religious Organisation’s Account
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has revealed that the anti-graft agency traced the sum of N7 billion suspected to be proceeds of money laundering, to a religious organisation. Speaking during a public engagement on youth, religion, and the fight against corruption, as well as the launch of the fraud risk assessment project for...
Ondo Amotekun Deploys 100 Personnel To Facilitate Release Of Ekiti Pupils, Teachers
The Ondo security outfit codenamed, Amotekun, has deployed 100 of it’s personnel to the neighboring Ekiti state to aid the release of the five pupils of Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure Ekiti, and four staff members abducted on Monday. Amotekun commander in the state, Chief Adetunji Adeleye,said in Akure, that the security outfit was acting on the order of...
22-Year-Old Arrested For Buying Car With Fake Bank Alert In Ondo
One Bakare Ayobami has been arrested for allegedly purchasing a car with a bogus bank transaction, the police in Ondo State have said. The 22-year-old committed the crime in Owo local government area of the state last October. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Funmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, disclosed in a statement on Wednesday in Akure, the state capital. He said the cybercrime case was...
Man Impersonating Customs CG Arrested Over Employment Scam
The Nigeria Customs Service has arrested one Abdul-Rahman Ibrahim, in his fifties, for his involvement in fraudulent activities and impersonation of the Comptroller-General of Customs and other high-ranking government officials. This was disclosed in a statement posted on the official X handle of the NCS on Wednesday. According to the statement, the NCS spokesperson, CSC Abdullahi Maiwada, on Monday, revealed that...
2 Sisters Abducted in Abuja, Kidnappers Demand N30 million ransom
Gunmen suspected to be bandits have reportedly abducted two teenage sisters from Guita community in Chikakore, located in Kubwa, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The incident happened some days after the reported killing of a nursing mother, Christiana Igba, and her mother, Maria Agbo, by kidnappers who had held them captive for two weeks in an undisclosed...
Ondo Amotekun Deploys Personnel To Ekiti, Apprehends 31 Suspects
Ondo State Security Network, Amotekun Corps said it has deployed its personnel to neighbouring Ekiti State to help secure release of the kidnapped pupils and arrest the kidnappers. It said some arrest has been made in pursuit of the abductors. Commander of the Ondo Amotekun Corps, Akogun Adeleye Adetunji, said Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa ordered deployment of the personnel to Ekiti State. Akogun Adeleye said...
EFCC Expose Religious Body Laundering Money For Terrorists – Chairman
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has revealed that the anti-graft agency uncovered how a religious sect in Nigeria is laundering money for terrorists. This was as he also revealed that another religious body was found to be protecting a money launderer after some money suspected to have been laundered was traced to the...
