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The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested a gang of suspected thieves who specialize in stealing industrial power generators in the Azare town of the Katagum Local Government Area of the State.   Addressing journalists in Azare on Tuesday October 24, the state Commissioner of Police, CP Auwal Musa Muhammad, …

The Bauchi state command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Bauchi State has arrested a 500-level student of Veterinary Medicine at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Kaduna State, Abdullahi Ibrahim, for allegedly killing a 17-year-old boy.    The student reportedly lured the teenage secondary student with his …

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested three individuals involved in illegal mining activities in Gombe state.      The suspects were apprehended while carrying out their illegal activities at a site in Gamawa community in Akko Local Government Area (LGA) of Gombe State.      According …

The Nigerian Navy Ship Beecroft, patrol team has intercepted 11 stowaways aboard a Guangzhou Highway Panama ship heading to Ghana.   The stowaways said they thought the vessel was going to Europe and decided to follow it out of the country in search of greener pastures.   Lieutenant Commander Ayobami …

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two drug barons linked to consignments of cocaine and heroin buried in bellies of two traffickers heading to Paris, France and Doha, Qatar.  One of the suspects has been identified as Hakeem Babatunde Salami, the alleged arrowhead of “Tajudeen …

This comes after Skales called the commission out for breaking into his house. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested two suspected fraudsters in the home of Nigerian singer, Skales.

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 67-year-old trafficker, Chukwuemeka Clement, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for ingesting 100 wraps of cocaine.   The suspect claimed he ventured into the drug business to raise enough money to marry a new wife and …

Men of the Ondo State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) have arrested two suspected members of a child trafficking syndicate for their luring young girls to Libya allegedly for prostitution.    The two suspects, Babatunde Oluwasola, a.k.a ‘Osanle and Fowowe Dada, were arrested following a …

The mayor of Libya’s eastern city of Derna has been detained along with other officials on suspicion of mismanagement and negligence over the collapse of dams that flooded the city two weeks ago, Libya’s attorney general’s office said on Monday, September 25. The attorney general’s office, based in the capital …

Two suspects have been arrested by Kano State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in connection with an alleged case of robbery, theft, and vandalisation of armoured cables and three driven unit batteries belonging to Kano Electricity Distribution Company.     The command also revealed that three other suspects …