About 20 armed robbers were said to have invaded Alaafia Estate at the Orogun area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, dispossessing residents of their money and other valuables. It was gathered that the hoodlums used Point of Sale machines to transfer money from the accounts of some residents, who did not have cash. They were said to have collected the Personal Identification Numbers and went away with the ATM cards of some when they could not transfer money from their victims’ accounts due to network failure. The robbers, it…

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Some Online drug traffickers and couriers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). A young lady, her boyfriend and eight others were arrested and assorted prohibited drugs were recovered. Director of Media and Advocacy of the agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, said the first suspect, 28-year-old Ese Patrick, who sells her illicit substances through Instagram account, Ese’sOvenSecret, was tracked and arrested with some pieces of brownies ordered online by NDLEA’s undercover agents on May 21, 2021, and…

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The Comptroller General, Strike Force Unit of the Nigeria Customs Service, said the agency impounded some unregistered and fake drugs brought into the country through the seaport. He said this at the unit while showing journalists the seized items. Also speaking, the Coordinator of the unit, Deputy Comptroller, Ahmadu Shuaibu, said the unit also recovered N426.4m on cargoes that were under-declared at the port. He said, “Sequel to conscientious documentary checks, the ICT component of the team recovered the sum of N426.4m from demand notices raised within April till Tuesday.…

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