Category: Crime

511 jumbo sacks of cannabis sativa weighing 4,752kg concealed in the gas tank compartment of a truck has been seized by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency along the Abuja-Abaji highway. The agency in a statement on Sunday by its spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said the operatives on a stop-and-search operation along the highway on Wednesday, May 1, intercepted the 40-ft gas tanker marked RBC 77XG and upon a thorough search discovered the sacks. Babafemi added that four suspects were arrested in connection with the seizure. The statement read…

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Five minors have been rescued from the clutches of suspected traffickers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. According to a statement by SP Josephine Adeh, Police Public Relations Officer, FCT Command, the operatives arrested two female suspects, Kulu Dogonyaro and Elizabeth Ojah, on April 27, 2024, at around 8:00 p.m. at Kagini Junction, Abuja. The suspects were intercepted while attempting to convey the five children into the Federal Capital Territory. “The suspects, who initially attempted to escape arrest from Sokoto police operatives, were finally apprehended by our eagle-eyed officers…

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Ola Olukoyede, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has narrated an incident where a 17-year-old successfully hacked into his personal computer and bank account while being interrogated at his office in Lagos. The anti-graft agency chairman made this known at the EFCC Headquarters, Jabi, Abuja, last Tuesday. Olukoyede recounted inviting the 17-year-old for questioning at his own office, only to witness the young hacker effortlessly bypass the security measures of his locked computer right before his eyes. He said, “I brought into my Lagos office a seventeen-year-old boy…

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The Bmuko Community, in the Dutse Baupma axis of the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, was on Monday night invaded by gunmen who reportedly kidnapped four residents in the area. A resident of the community, Mr Isah, who spoke on Tuesday, said the gunmen arrived in the community at about 11:50 pm on Monday, at the house of one Engr Patrick, whose wife and brother were among the four abducted persons. The Area Council had in January been attacked when gunmen kidnapped 22 persons, and killed…

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10 members of suspected criminals who specialize in exhuming body parts from cemeteries and killing human beings for rituals have been arrested by police in Lagos. Among the arrested suspects was an 85-year-old traditional ruler in Benin Republic, Yusuf Lawal Muse, the son of a pastor said to be the kingpin, Ademola Akinlosota, 33, an Ifa priest, Sunday Badonu, aka Osekure, 25, his father, Vijamiya Badonu, an idol priest and Osetura’s father, Dada Trival, 33, Bale of Akalekumo in Badagry, Hunsu Segun,35, Balogun in Ogboni fraternity, Badagry, Amodu Wahab, aka…

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The Nigeria Customs joint border patrol team on intelligence-based patrol have intercepted 6,250 sacks of dynamite explosives en route to Kebbi along Yauri-Jega road. According to Comptroller of Customs, Kebbi State, Mr Ernest Iheanacho, the explosives were loaded in a canter vehicle with registration number Zur 882 ZY, which was intercepted immediately, leading to the arrest of the driver, one Abdullahi Aliyu, who was billed to hand over to Alhaji Mustapha Garba Jega, the receiver. He explained that, upon the discovery of the items, both intelligence units of the joint…

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Suspected Boko Haram terrorists yesterday sacked the military base at Allawa town in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State, as residents fled communities in the area to avoid being shot or kidnapped. This came as bandits also yesterday attacked the palace of the emir of Zurmi, Alhaji Mohammed Bunu, but failed to kidnap him as he was whisked away to the state capital, Gusau, by security agents. The Niger incident was said to have happened at about 1:30 am, as the insurgents “invaded the town on motorcycles with not…

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