Crime – City Business News

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.They were arraigned on...

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...

November 8, 2025 No Responses

Customs, Civil Defence Deepen Collaboration To Tackle Cross-Border Crimes

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Katsina Area Command, and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have strengthened operational ties in a renewed effort to curb the rising incidence of cross-border crimes along the nation’s northern frontier....

November 1, 2025 No Responses

Police Launch Manhunt For Stolen 2025 Mercedes-Benz In Lagos

The Lagos State Command has launched a manhunt for a gang of armed robbers who stole a 2025 Mercedes-Bens GLE 350.The black 2025 Mercedes-Benz GLE 350 with registration number WTO 21 AM was stolen at gunpoint by a gang of...

October 29, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Returns Three Properties, Two Vehicles, ₦1.1m To Fraud Victim

The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ola Olukoyede, on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, handed over three properties, two exotic vehicles, and ₦1.1 million recovered as proceeds of crime to a fraud victim, Mr. Daniel.....

October 29, 2025 No Responses

Customs Hands Over 60,000 Litres of Seized PMS To NMDPRA

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), through Operation Whirlwind, has handed over a truck loaded with 60,000 litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to the Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) for further regulatory action.The ha...

October 27, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Arraigns Man Over Alleged ₦1.07b Automotive Gas Oil Fraud

The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday October 27, 2025 arraigned one Ajayi Edward Olushola alongside his companies, Hola-Jayu Nigeria Limited and Mozann Global Merchants Limited, for alleged involvement ...

October 20, 2025 No Responses

Nigeria Police Recover Two VehiclesStolen From Netherlands

The Nigeria Police Force has recorded a significant breakthrough in the fight against transnational organized crime with the recovery of two luxury vehicles stolen from the Netherlands and illegally imported into Nigeria.Operatives of the INTERPOL National Cen...

September 2, 2025 7 Responses

Customs FOU, Zone A Impounds 15 Rifles, 4,800 Rounds, Drones

The Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, FOU A, Ikeja of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has impounded 15 Rifles, 4,800 Rounds and two Industrial Drones.Briefing Journalists on Tuesday,Comptroller of the Unit, Mohammed Shuaibu said; “On August 7, 2025, at about 2:...

August 23, 2025 7 Responses

Customs, CDCFIB Strengthen National Security Partnership

The Comptroller-General of Customs (CGC), Adewale Adeniyi has reaffirmed the Nigeria Customs Service’s collaboration with agencies under the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board (CDCFIB).According to the Customs Boss, shared facil...

August 9, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Arrests Alleged Internet Fraudster

Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a suspected internet fraudster with two locally- made pistolsHe was arrested alongside 55 others at K- Hotel in Itori, Ewekoro area of Ogun State...

August 8, 2025 No Responses

Court Fines Zenith Bank N85m For Freezing Customer’s Account

A High Court in Abuja has awarded a fine of N85 million against Zenith Bank Plc for freezing a customer’s bank account by relying on an invalid court order.Justice S. U. Bature, in a judgment, also ordered the bank to...

July 24, 2025 No Responses

Court Convicts Ex-NHIS Boss,Femi Thomas , BDC Operator

Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday, July, 24, 2025, convicted the duo of Dr. Olufemi Martins Thomas, a former Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, and one Kabiru Sidi, a Bureau...

July 14, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Seals Hampton Hilton Hotel

The Special Control Unit against Money Laundering, SCUML, of the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has sealed Hampton Hilton Hotel and Apartments, Kaduna.According to EFCC, the facility was sealed for non-complianc...