By Fawziyyat Yusuf. The Nigeria Customs Service’s Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘C,’ FOUC, announced on Monday that it had captured fraudulent and illicit goods worth over N120 million between July and August this year.In a statement to newsmen in Owerri, the Public Relations Officer, PRO, Jerry Atta, confirmed this. Importing imported rice was against the Federal Government’s agriculture policies, according …

By Adeola Abdullah Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 30 suspected internet fraudsters in a sting operation at Kwara State University, KWASU, Malete. The suspects were arrested following actionable intelligence on their alleged involvement in internet-related fraud activities. Part of the intelligence indicated that suspected internet fraudsters were operating in …

By Adeola Abdullah . NDLEA storms Edo forests, destroys hectares of drug farms; intercepts cocaine, heroin going to Canada, Australia Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, continued their nationwide offensive action against drug traffickers in the past week, seizing hundreds of kilograms of illicit substances at the airports, courier firms, hideouts and destroying hectares of cannabis farms …

By Aishat Momoh. O. Khadija Yakubu, 22, has been detained by the Yobe Police Command for reportedly poisoning and killing three of her stepchildren in the Malaria Huta community of the state’s Potiskum Local Government Area. ASP Dungus Abdulkareem, the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, stated in a statement on Friday that the suspect poisoned the tea consumed by four …

By Fawziyyat Yusuf. On Friday, a Grade 1 Area Court in Kubwa issued a bench warrant authorizing the arrest of Jume Mubarak, a 25-year-old driver, for failing to appear for trial. Following an oral application by the prosecution lawyer, John Okpa, who noted that the defendant was not present to contest the charge against him, the judge, Muhammad Adamu, issued …

By Aishat Momoh. O. In an early morning sting operation, members of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) Port Harcourt Zonal Command detained eleven ( 11) accused Internet fraudsters. On Thursday, September 16, 2021, at Ozuobo Area, off NTA Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, the suspects: Chidindu Michael; Timothy Emmanuel; Nweke Joseph Jeff; Francis David; Pedro Enuaghanam Nnaemeka; Promise …

By Fawziyyat Yusuf. The Primary Health Care Board of the Federal Capital Area (FCT) has begun an investigation into allegations that some health workers in the territory are engaging in unethical COVID-19 immunization practices. Dr Iwot Ndaeyo, the board’s Acting Secretary, announced this on Wednesday in Abuja at a sensitization and social mobilization meeting for the second phase of COVID-19 …

By Fawziyyat Yusuf. The Emir of Bungudu, Zamfara State, Alhaji Hassan Atto, and an indeterminate number of commuters were abducted along the Kaduna – Abuja route, according to the Kaduna Police Command. In a statement released on Tuesday in Kaduna, the Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, confirmed the event. “Today, Sept 14, at about 3.10 pm, the Kaduna …

POLICE ARREST ARMED ROBBERY SUSPECT AND CULTIST IN LAGOS; RECOVER ARMS AND AMMUNITION

By Fawziyyat Yusuf.   According to Vanguard, gunmen have demanded N200 million in exchange for the release of Senator Nelson Effiong, a former politician. According to a family source, “they have reached the family and are demanding for 200 million naira. And the question is, where is the family going to get that kind of money with the way things …