Tag: Crime

NDLEA Arrests Ex-Footballer Over Alleged Attempt To Smuggle Cocaine
June 30, 2025 No Responses

NDLEA Arrests Ex-Footballer Over Alleged Attempt To Smuggle Cocaine

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested an ex-international football player and his businessman partner over an alleged attempt to smuggle a consignment of cocaine into Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos. The NDLEA...
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Court Jails Ecobank Staff One Year For N2.4m Cybercrime
June 16, 2025 No Responses

Court Jails Ecobank Staff One Year For N2.4m Cybercrime

Justice Yellim Bogoro of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday, June 16, 2025, convicted and sentenced one Solomon Stephen Ufayo, a staff of Ecobank Plc, to one-year imprisonment for cybercrime.The convict was arraigned on Friday, May...
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EFCC Arraigns Director For Alleged N13.8b Fraud
June 16, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Arraigns Director For Alleged N13.8b Fraud

The Port Harcourt Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned the director of Glossalalia Nigeria Ltd and Pelenged Nigeria Ltd, Precious Williams before Justice S. I . Mark of the Federal High Court, sitting in...
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NDLEA Intercepts N1.1b codeine
June 16, 2025 No Responses

NDLEA Intercepts N1.1b codeine

THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 157,800 bottles of codeine-based syrup at Port Harcourt Ports, Onne, Rivers.The shipment has an estimated street value of over ₦1.1 billion, according to a statement released on Sunday in Abuja...
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EFCC Arraigns Top Executives Of Sun Trust Bank Over Alleged $12 Million Fraud
June 14, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Arraigns Top Executives Of Sun Trust Bank Over Alleged $12 Million Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday, June 13, 2025 arraigned the duo of Halima Buba and Innocent Mbagwu before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja for alleged fraud.The defendants, who are Managing Director/Chief Execu...
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Ikeja Electric Insists On Zero Tolerance For Vandalism As Court Convicts Three Persons
June 10, 2025 No Responses

Ikeja Electric Insists On Zero Tolerance For Vandalism As Court Convicts Three Persons

For vandalizing and stealing electricity distribution equipment within the Ikeja Electric network, Magistrate courts in Lagos recently convicted three persons.The Magistrate Court sitting at Ikorodu on 5th May 2025 convicted and sentenced Adegbite Jamiu for va...
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Police Kill Seven Kidnappers
June 10, 2025 No Responses

Police Kill Seven Kidnappers

The Nigeria Police Force has killed seven suspected kidnappers and arrested five alleged armed robbers in separate raids across Delta and Kaduna states. Force Public Relations Officer ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi disclosed this in a statement on Monday, referencing t...
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NDLEA Intercepts Illicit Drugs Packaged As Green Tea
June 9, 2025 No Responses

NDLEA Intercepts Illicit Drugs Packaged As Green Tea

Sixty-six parcels of loud, a strong strain of cannabis, packaged as green tea, have been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. A statement.....
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Customs Reinforces Anti-Fuel Smuggling, Deploys New Officers
June 5, 2025 No Responses

Customs Reinforces Anti-Fuel Smuggling, Deploys New Officers

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intensified its efforts to combat fuel smuggling with the deployment of newly inducted officers to Operation Whirlwind, a tactical unit launched in May 2024 to check the illegal movement of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS)...
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Shippers’ Council Seeks Closer Collaboration With Police
June 4, 2025 No Responses

Shippers’ Council Seeks Closer Collaboration With Police

The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has reaffirmed its commitment to stronger inter-agency collaboration with the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in a bid to enhance enforcement compliance and improve operational efficiency across Nigeria’s ports.This position...
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EFCC Arrests Fake  Journalist  Over Alleged $4.5b PTF Fraud
June 4, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Arrests Fake  Journalist  Over Alleged $4.5b PTF Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested a fake Journalist, Ernesto Chukwudum Chukwukamma for alleged extortion, impersonation and obtaining N2,000,000.00 ( Two Million Naira)  under false pretence to influence the investigation of...
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EFCC Hands Over Forfeited Properties Of Nnamani To AMCON
May 31, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Hands Over Forfeited Properties Of Nnamani To AMCON

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has handed over four properties forfeited by Rainbownet Nigeria Limited, a company owned by a former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, to the Asset Management Company of Nigeria, AMCON in Enugu Stat...
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Customs Intercepts 1,577 Jerrycans Of Smuggled PMS
May 31, 2025 No Responses

Customs Intercepts 1,577 Jerrycans Of Smuggled PMS

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) through its Operation Whirlwind has intercepted 1,577 jerrycans (39,425 litres) of smuggled petroleum products and eight vehicles used for their transportation, with a combined value of N63,425,000 across the Lagos and Ogun ax...
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EFCC Re-arraigns Fadama Society Executives For Alleged ₦178m Fraud
May 29, 2025 No Responses

EFCC Re-arraigns Fadama Society Executives For Alleged ₦178m Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, May 29, 2025, re-arraigned two executives of the Covenant Fadama Multi-purpose Cooperative Society, its Secretary, Okewole Dayo, and Chairman, Bishop Katung Jonas before Justice Sharon T. Ishaya ...
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