The Nigerian Army has alleged that the Eastern Security Network, an outfit of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), is behind the recent attacks in the south-east region. Onyema Nwachukwu, Army spokesman, said this on Monday, November 1, while briefing journalists on the ongoing military operation in the south-east. According to him, Chukwunonso…
The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, November 1, 2021 arraigned one Asabe Lazarus Dibal before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri on one count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation to the tune of N15, 000,000.00 (Fifteen Million Naira) The defendant…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed the handover of Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) students arrested by the Nigerian Army. The officers of the 12 Field Engineering Regiment in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, took the 20 suspected internet fraudsters to EFCC Ibadan zonal command, where they handed them to the…
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Command have arrested two self-claimed herbalists, Ajisafe Toheeb and Ogundayo Usman at Soka area of Ibadan over their alleged involvement in offences bordering on internet fraud. The duo were arrested on Friday, October 29, alongside twenty-four others, four of whom claimed to be students of…
Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have shot a female teacher in failed kidnap attempt at Osi, Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State. The woman and her colleagues, who are teachers of Ikerin Secondary School in Ekiti, were on their way home after the day’s work when they were accosted by the gunmen on…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has raised an alarm of real estates in the country being allegedly used to launder illicit funds. Appearing before a House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee investigating the activities of estate developers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)…
A 27-year-old man has surrendered himself to police in Oloitoktok, Kajiado County, Kenya and confessed to killing his girlfriend after an argument. The man, who identified himself as an IT intern, admitted to stabbing his girlfriend, a 22-year-old Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) student, Miriam Chepchirchir, to death on Friday, October 22. The suspect told police…
Operatives of the anti-kidnapping and cybercrime unit of the Edo State Police Command have arrested two employees of a cement company over alleged plan to kidnap their supervisors in Okpilla, Etsako East Local government of the state. The suspects, Obi Bright and Favour Edi were arrested while trying to recruit some gunmen in Okpilla for…
A 25-year-old woman, Lebogang Matlou, was brutally murdered by her boyfriend in Limpopo, South Africa. The 30-year-old suspect and a female suspect alleged to be his ex-girlfriend, were scheduled to appear before the Mokerong Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, October 20, after they were arrested for allegedly killing Lebogang. The body of the deceased was found lying…
A drug cartel reportedly abducted a retired National Drug Law Enforcement Agency officer, after its operatives arrested a 19-year-old female drug dealer, Mngunengen Achir, in Benue State. NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi confirmed this in a statement, saying that Achir was arrested with 5.5kg cannabis and 112grams of diazepam on October 6 in Aliade area of the state. Babafemi revealed…
