Category: Crime

EFCC Hands Over N96.5m To Victims Of Ponzi Scheme
December 4, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Hands Over N96.5m To Victims Of Ponzi Scheme

In line with its commitment to combating economic and financial crimes and ensuring restitution for victims of fraudulent schemes, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday, December 4, 2025 handed over N96, 500, 000. 00 (Ninety-six Million, Five...
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EFCC Arraigns Manager Over Failure To Appoint Compliance Desk Officer
December 4, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Arraigns Manager Over Failure To Appoint Compliance Desk Officer

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abuja Zonal Directorate has arraigned a company compliance officer, Orbby Vanessa Agwuncha, before Justice O.A. Egwuata of the Federal High Court, Abuja, for failure to appoint a compliance desk officer and ...
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EFCC Arrests Man For Alleged N165m Fraud
December 2, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Arrests Man For Alleged N165m Fraud

Operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Ndubisi John Iheukwumere for alleged property fraud.Iheukwumere, 64, is alleged to have collaborated with one Mrs Salt Adaeze Udoka who is curren...
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Alleged N76bn, $31.5m Fraud: EFCC Presents Fourth Witness Against Ex-AMCON MD, Others
November 28, 2025 No Responses

Alleged N76bn, $31.5m Fraud: EFCC Presents Fourth Witness Against Ex-AMCON MD, Others

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, November 28, 2025, presented its fourth prosecution witness, PW4, Bawa Usman Kaltungo, in the ongoing trial of a former Managing Director of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Ahm...
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NDLEA Dismantles N6.7b Opioids Cartel, Arrests Drug Baron
November 26, 2025 No Responses

NDLEA Dismantles N6.7b Opioids Cartel, Arrests Drug Baron

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have recorded another major breakthrough in the nationwide crackdown on drug syndicates with the dismantling of a large-scale opioids cartel in Lagos and the arrest of a suspected kingpin, Onyekach...
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NDLEA Smashes Six Drug Syndicates
November 23, 2025 No Responses

NDLEA Smashes Six Drug Syndicates

In one of the Agency’s most sweeping offensives in recent times, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has dismantled at least six drug trafficking syndicates across the country, recovering tons of assorted illicit substances and arresting nine ke...
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Catholic Bishop Warns Against Treating Bandits With Kid Gloves
November 22, 2025 No Responses

Catholic Bishop Warns Against Treating Bandits With Kid Gloves

The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Dr. Alfred Adewale Martins has called for more urgent official measures to curb the alarming rate of insecurity across the country.He said the festering terrorists’ attacks in parts of the country and the...
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NDLEA Intercepts Cocaine Shipment From Brazil, Detains Ship, 20 Crew
November 21, 2025 No Responses

NDLEA Intercepts Cocaine Shipment From Brazil, Detains Ship, 20 Crew

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted another cocaine-laden vessel at the Apapa seaport in Lagos, barely six months after 10 Thai sailors were convicted and fined $4.3 million for trafficking 32.9kg of the drug into...
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Gunmen Abduct 25 Students In Kebbi School, Police Launch Rescue Operation
November 17, 2025 No Responses

Gunmen Abduct 25 Students In Kebbi School, Police Launch Rescue Operation

In the early hours of Monday, 17th November 2025, armed bandits stormed the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, in Danko district of Danko/Wasagu Local Government Area of Kebbi State, abducting 25 students in a violent attack.According to re...
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NDLEA Arrests Wanted Drug Baron In Lagos
November 16, 2025 No Responses

NDLEA Arrests Wanted Drug Baron In Lagos

A wanted drug baron who operates under the cover of a businessman and hotelier, Frank Chijioke Ibemesi, alias Chisco Bee, has been arrested by operatives of a Special Operations Unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) after weeks...
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EFCC Arraigns Ex-Access Bank Staff For Alleged Diversion Of Customer’s $510,000
November 14, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Arraigns Ex-Access Bank Staff For Alleged Diversion Of Customer’s $510,000

The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, November 13, 2025 arraigned one Obinna Nwaobi, a former Head of Operations at Access Bank Nigeria Plc before Justice F. O. Giwa-Ogunbanjo of the Federal High...
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NDLEA Strengthens Maritime Operations, Sends Officers To UK For Advanced Training
November 14, 2025 No Responses

NDLEA Strengthens Maritime Operations, Sends Officers To UK For Advanced Training

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has strengthened its maritime surveillance and interdiction capabilities following the successful completion of a week working visit to the United Kingdom by officers from the Agency’s Directorate of Seaport O...
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EFCC Arraigns Three For Alleged N174m UBOTEX Fraud
November 12, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Arraigns Three For Alleged N174m UBOTEX Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Uyo Zonal Directorate, has arraigned Akaninyene Enefiok Archibong, Sylvanus Edet Akpan, and Glory Enefiok Archibong before Justice Maurine Onyetenu of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.Th...
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PTML Customs Intercepts ₦29.4b Cocaine, Hands Over To NDLEA
November 11, 2025 No Responses

PTML Customs Intercepts ₦29.4b Cocaine, Hands Over To NDLEA

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Port and Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) Command, has intercepted cocaine shipment valued at ₦29.4 billion.Comptroller Joe Anani, Customs Area Controller of PTML Command, disclosed this during a press conference on Tu...
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