Crime – City Business News

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...