Category: Crime

Customs Impounds 28,300 Litres Of PMS
March 5, 2025 No Responses

Customs Impounds 28,300 Litres Of PMS

The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), Adewale Adeniyi, has assured smugglers of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) that tougher times lie ahead as the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) intensifies its crackdown on fuel smuggling.This warning came as officers of Operation Whirlwind intercepted...
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17 Years After, NDLEA Nabs Alleged Druglord
March 3, 2025 No Responses

17 Years After, NDLEA Nabs Alleged Druglord

After 17 years of hiding in the dark to allegedly ship illicit drugs worth billions of naira across the world, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a wanted 59-year-old drug baron identified as Ogbonnaya Kevin...
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Customs, Stakeholders Strategise To Combat Money Laundering
February 26, 2025 No Responses

Customs, Stakeholders Strategise To Combat Money Laundering

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command of the Nigeria Customs Service(NCS)has intensified efforts to tackle money laundering at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, by bringing together key government agencies in a high-level stakeholders’ meeti...
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NDLEA Arrests Thai lady At Lagos Airport
February 23, 2025 No Responses

NDLEA Arrests Thai lady At Lagos Airport

Alleged attempt by a 24-year-old Thai lady, Ms. Pattaphi Wimonnat, to smuggle 43 parcels of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 46.60 kilograms into Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos has been thw...
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Court Convicts CEO For N2b Fraud
February 21, 2025 No Responses

Court Convicts CEO For N2b Fraud

Justice Rosemary Dugbo Oghoghorie of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar has convicted and sentenced the Chief Executive Officer, Micheno Multi-purpose Cooperative Society, Uno Michael Eke to one year imprisonment for conspiracy, obtaining property by fa...
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Alleged N32b Fraud: Bank, Others Challenge Court’s Jurisdiction
February 20, 2025 No Responses

Alleged N32b Fraud: Bank, Others Challenge Court’s Jurisdiction

Fidelity Bank Plc and three others have challenged the jurisdiction of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to hear a charge filed by the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) against them on charges of alleged conversion of about...
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EFCC Operatives Storm Ekpoma, Arrest 47 Suspected Fraudsters 
February 18, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Operatives Storm Ekpoma, Arrest 47 Suspected Fraudsters 

Operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday, February 15, 2025 arrested 47 suspected internet fraudsters at different locations in Ekpoma, Edo State. According to EFCC, the suspects were arr...
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EFCC Arrests 13 Suspected Internet Fraudsters In Benin
February 11, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Arrests 13 Suspected Internet Fraudsters In Benin

Operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 13 suspected internet fraudsters in Benin City, Edo State.A statement issued by EFCC explained that the suspects’ arrest followed credible intellig...
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DSS Partners EFCC On Terrorism Financing
February 10, 2025 No Responses

DSS Partners EFCC On Terrorism Financing

The Department of State Services, DSS has called for stronger collaboration with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, regarding intelligence sharing, especially in the area of terrorism financing in Enugu State.This call was made recently in Enu...
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Medical Doctor Bags Seven Years Imprisonment For N127m Fraud
February 9, 2025 No Responses

Medical Doctor Bags Seven Years Imprisonment For N127m Fraud

A Federal High Court, sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, presided over by Justice Rosemary Oghogho-rie has convicted and sentenced Dr. Geraldine Orok Ita to prison for fraud.Ita was prosecuted by the Uyo Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes...
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Court Jails Ex-JAMB Staff For Fraud
February 4, 2025 No Responses

Court Jails Ex-JAMB Staff For Fraud

Justice Bayo Taiwo of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan has convicted and sentenced one Olayiwola Oguntade to prison for fraud.Oguntade, a former staff member of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) was arraigned by the Ibadan...
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Ex-First Bank Staff Forfeits N1.1b, $392,818.01, £35,070 To FG
February 4, 2025 No Responses

Ex-First Bank Staff Forfeits N1.1b, $392,818.01, £35,070 To FG

Justice A.O.Owoeye of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has ordered the final forfeiture of the sums of N1,168,602,877.44, (One Billion, One Hundred and Sixty Eight Thousand, Six Hundred and Two, Eight Hundred and Seventy Seven Naira, Forty...
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EFCC, Nigeria Customs, NFIU, Train Law Enforcement Officers
February 4, 2025 No Responses

EFCC, Nigeria Customs, NFIU, Train Law Enforcement Officers

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in collaboration with the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) have organized a two-day empowerment Workshop for fifty law enforcement officers drawn from various a...
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Alleged $6b Fraud: EFCC Re-arraigns Agunloye
February 4, 2025 No Responses

Alleged $6b Fraud: EFCC Re-arraigns Agunloye

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, February 3, 2024 re-arraigned a former Minister of Power and Steel Development, Olu Agunloye on seven- count amended charges bordering on fraudulent award of contract and official corruptionbefore ...
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