The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has arrested a fake Senator, Ifechukwu Tom Makwe for alleged €5.7million (Five Million, Seven Hundred Thousand euros) internet fraud. Makwe was arrested at the Guzape area of Abuja following credible intelligence about his internet- related fraud activities. Upon arrest, it was discovered …
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OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted two imported consignments of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, with a combined weight of 5,344.1 kilograms along the Epe-Lekki corridor and at the Alfa beach, Lekki area of Lagos state. Based on credible intelligence, NDLEA operatives laid ambush …
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AN Effurun-based Human Rights lawyer, Emmanuel Ekpuda has petitioned the Nigerian Police Ekpan Division to apprehend and charge a Corporal attached to 3 Battalion Effurun for allegedly raping a 9-year-old girl, (name withheld). In the petition, the lawyer said, sometime in May 2003 while the parents of the girl were …
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THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has detained the Receiver Manager appointed by the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria for Arik Nigeria Limited, Mr Kamilu Omokide, over alleged misappropriation and diversion of about N120bn. Saturday PUNCH learnt that the EFCC detained Omokide alongside one Captain Samuel Caulcrick in connection with …
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THE Edo State Police Command has arrested a 16 years old boy for allegedly defiling a two-year-old minor in Edo State on June 7. Parading the suspect, Edo Police State Command’s spokesperson, Chidi Nwabuzor, who confirmed the arrest, said the suspect committed the offence in Egba community, Uhunwonde Local Government. …
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A man identified as Okhiria has been arrested by the operatives of the Edo State Police Command for shooting his wife with a gun during an argument on June 3, at Ekae Community in the new Etete axis, GRA, Benin. The suspect was said to have had an argument with …
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A shopping complex along Ado-Afao Road in Ado Ekiti has been razed by fire. The fire, which started in the early hours of Sunday, destroyed properties worth millions of naira as the complex was burnt down completely. Some of the shopowners who spoke with the media expressed anger at the …
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THE Nigeria Police Force, Yobe State command on Saturday said its operatives arrested a traditional chief and his two sons over the murder of one Goni Waje in Dako Kangarwa village, Yunusari Local Government Area. The command’s spokesman, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, in a statement in Damaturu, named the suspects simply as Jalomi, …
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SOCIO-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Bola Tinubu over “missing subsidy payments”. The organisation is seeking a probe of allegations that $2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are unaccounted for. The suit followed the grim allegations documented by the Auditor-General …
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A suspected cattle rustler has been apprehended by the Gombe State Police Command and 21 cows stolen from a herder in Shuwari village of Funakaye Local Government Area recovered. ASP Mahid Mu’azu Abubakar, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state while Parading the suspect, identified as Kabo, Mahid Mu’azu …
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