Category: Crime

Customs Confiscates N3.2b Items, Arrest Eight Suspects
June 9, 2020 No Responses

Customs Confiscates N3.2b Items, Arrest Eight Suspects

The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Border Drill Operation Sector 4, Katsina said it seized various goods with Duty Paid Value (DPV) worth N3.2 billion from January 2020 to date. Aliyu Mohammed, the sector coordinator, Border Drill Operation Sector 4, Katsina,...
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Police In Ogun Arrests Lovers For Faking Kidnap
June 5, 2020 No Responses

Police In Ogun Arrests Lovers For Faking Kidnap

The Police Command in Ogun has arrested a 17-year-old girl, Seun Adekunle, and her 25-year-old boyfriend, Basit Olasunkanm, for allegedly faking kidnap of the girl. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, made the discl...
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Customs Impounds N253m Smuggled Items
June 3, 2020 No Responses

Customs Impounds N253m Smuggled Items

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Kebbi State confiscated various smuggled items valued at N253 million betweem February and May, 2020. The Kebbi Area Comptroller of Customs, Yusuf Garba, made the disclosure at a press briefing in Birnin Kebbi on...
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DPR Hands Over Nine Vessels To Navy, EFCC
June 3, 2020 No Responses

DPR Hands Over Nine Vessels To Navy, EFCC

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) said nine vessels allegedly involved in oil theft had been handed over to the Nigerian Navy and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Sarki...
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NCWS To Edo Govt: Fish Out killers Of UNIBEN Undergraduate
June 1, 2020 No Responses

NCWS To Edo Govt: Fish Out killers Of UNIBEN Undergraduate

The National Council of Women Societies (NCWS) has called on Edo Government to ensure that killers of Vera Omozuwa, a 100-level Microbiology student of University of Benin (UNIBEN) are brought to book.The President NCWS, Mrs Laraba Shoda, made the call...
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Taiwan Decriminalises Adultery
May 29, 2020 No Responses

Taiwan Decriminalises Adultery

Taiwan’s top court on Friday nullified a decade-old criminal adultery law under which having extra marital affairs could result in jail term. The court revoked Article 239 of Taiwan’s Criminal Code, which stipulated that a“ married person who commits adu...
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Senate Wants Police Force Decentralized
May 5, 2020 No Responses

Senate Wants Police Force Decentralized

The Senate has called for the de-centralization of the Nigeria Police Force and the need for community policing as a way of addressing the country’s problem of insecurity.  This formed part of the recommendations of the Senate Ad-hoc Committee on...
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Driver Bags Death Sentence For Murder In First Virtual Court Sitting In Lagos
May 4, 2020 No Responses

Driver Bags Death Sentence For Murder In First Virtual Court Sitting In Lagos

Justice Mojisola Dada of an Ikeja High Court has sentenced a driver, Olalekan Hameed, to death by hanging in the first virtual court sitting held by a Lagos court as part of social distancing measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic....
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NAFDAC Shuts Down Yoghurt Factory
April 22, 2020 No Responses

NAFDAC Shuts Down Yoghurt Factory

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Borno State office has shutdown an illegal facility engaged in the production of unregistered yoghurt. The information was  disclosed in a statement signed by the state Acting Coord...
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Police Recovers 21 Stolen Cars
April 14, 2020 No Responses

Police Recovers 21 Stolen Cars

The Nigeria Police Special Tactical Squad (STS) has smashed a two-man car stealing gang led by one Bashir Isiaku, aged 34, notorious for stealing cars from the car park of the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH).A statement issued on Tuesday...
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Customs Hands Over N.84m Hemp To NDLEA
April 2, 2020 No Responses

Customs Hands Over N.84m Hemp To NDLEA

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), in Bauchi on Thursday handed over 40 bags of Indian hemp it confiscated from fleeing suspects  to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), for custody and investigation.Speaking at the hand over ceremony in Bauc...
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Coronavirus: Kenya Frees 4,800 Prisoners
April 2, 2020 No Responses

Coronavirus: Kenya Frees 4,800 Prisoners

Kenya’s Judiciary said on Thursday it has released 4,800 prisoners, who are serving sentences for petty offences to help contain the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country.David Maraga, Chief Justice, said the prisoners, who were serving jail terms.....
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Navy Intercepts Cameroon-Bound 204 Drums of Diesel
March 18, 2020 No Responses

Navy Intercepts Cameroon-Bound 204 Drums of Diesel

A patrol team of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Victory in Calabar,      Cross River,has intercepted 204 drums of illegally refined diesel  being smuggled to Cameroon.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the team also arrested four s...
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Nigerian Navy Impounds 94,800 Litres Of AGO
March 12, 2020 No Responses

Nigerian Navy Impounds 94,800 Litres Of AGO

The Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base (FOB) at Ibaka, Mbo Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom, has seized 94, 800 litres of illegal Automative Gas Oil (AGO) at Agbani Offshore in Rivers.Captain Peter Yilme, the Commanding Officer of FOB, stated this...
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