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The Ilorin zonal command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has apprehended 48 individuals suspected of internet fraud and herbalists for alleged crimes involving conspiracy and obtaining money under pretences in Lokoja, Kogi state. EFCC made this known in a post on its X handle on Thursday, March …

Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) impounded 123 vehicles for illegal parking and operating in illegal garages around bridges across Lagos Island.   A statement signed by the Director of Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of the Agency, Adebayo Taofiq, on Wednesday, March 6, said the General …

  Operatives of the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, arrested 21 trucks loaded with food and non-food items heading towards N’djamena, Chad Republic, Central African Republic and Cameroon.   The trucks were intercepted in a sting operation at major …

The police in Lagos state have arrested a 69-year-old commercial bus driver, Waidi Saheed, for allegedly crushing a 10-year-old, simply identified as Chukwudi, to death at the Iganmu-Mile 2 Expressway in the state on Sunday, March 3.   According to police sources, the father of the victim identified as Bernard …

Police in eastern India have arrested three men for the alleged gang rape of a foreign tourist and assault of her husband.   The police are also hunting for four more suspects.     Recall that a woman and her husband, who set out to travel the world on their …

A driver has been arrested by officers of the Edo State Police Command for illegal possession of arms and ammunition.   Ambrose Christopher, 24, was arrested by the police in Ekpoma while driving a Mercedes Benz GLK following credible information from the public.    The command’s spokesperson, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, …

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a 40-year-old businessman, Ejike Chibuke Solomon with 1.45 kilograms of cocaine concealed in his luggage while attempting to board an Ethiopia Airlines flight number 950 to Vietnam via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja. …

The Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection Unit of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Oyo State Command, has arrested seven for defilement of minors, harmful traditional practices, and human trafficking in different locations in the state.   The State Commandant, Augustine Padonu, gave the names of the suspects …

The operatives of the FCT Police Command, in a continued effort against banditry in FCT and its environs, on February 24, at about 7:05 PM,  \acting on credible intelligence, stormed Sardauna Forest, Toto, Nasarawa State and arrested one Samaila Wakili Fafa A.K.A Habu Ibrahim, a kidnap kingpin who has been …

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has successfully dismantled and arrested members of an organized criminal organization which specializes in trafficking heroin across Nigeria, South Africa, Mozambique, Europe and America in a 12-day well-coordinated operation leading to the seizure of the single largest consignment of heroin at the Murtala …