Two men have been arrested by the security personnel of the University of Calabar for snatching a phone worth N88,000 from a 100-level Computer Science student of the institution, Godwin Okoro. The suspects, identified as Kingsley Mathias, 22, and Bassey Edet, 23, said they sold the phone for N10,000. According to the victim, he was
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A suspected notorious major supplier of illicit drugs in Abia State, Chibuike Apollos, was on Wednesday arrested during an early morning raid on his hideout at Mbausi in the Isialangwa North Local Government Area of the state. The spokesman for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Femi Babafemi, in said a statement that Apollos had
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has recorded major breakthroughs in their efforts against drug trafficking. A Madrid, Spain-bound trafficker, Okonkwo Chimezie Henry, excreted one hundred and thirteen wraps of Cocaine after his arrest at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA) a fortnight ago. Two others nabbed by the operatives of the National Drug
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Operatives of the Enugu State Police Command, attached to the Ninth-mile police division have arrested a 29 years old woman, Nnenna Egwuagu who was accused of administering a poisonous substance suspected to be insecticide to her three years old stepson, Wisdom Egwuagu, an act that was said to have caused the sudden death of the
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 34 suspected internet fraudsters in Lagos and Ibadan, Oyo State. The EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Ibadan. According to him, 24 suspects were arrested in Ibadan and 10 others in Lagos. He added that the suspects were
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The Anambra State Police Command living up to her promise of ensuring a crime free state and that all activities of unscrupulous elements are checked and perpetrators brought to book, have arrested another four notorious cultists in Awka. The Police Public Relations Officer PPRO of the command, Mr Ikenga Tochukwu(DSP) revealed this in a press
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The Benin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday March 24, 2021 arraigned the trio of Afekhai Aliu, Felix Victor and James Blessing Anne before Justice Efe Ikponwonba on a six count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence. They are alleged to have defrauded one Ikhaigbode Jimoh Oya by
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Police operatives attached to Makinde Police Station, Oshodi, have arrested one Jane Otubo, 28, of No 3, Eniola Street, Mafoluku, Oshodi, for alleged homosexuality. CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos Command, disclosed this in a statement on Friday, in Lagos. Adejobi said Otubo, a foodstuff trader, who hailed from Enugu State, was arrested
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Enugu State Police Command on Friday 39 suspects for various criminal offences within one month in the state. Speaking on the arrest made between Feb. 12 and March 18, the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Aliyu, said that the Command recovered a total of 10 firearms of assorted rifles. Aliyu said that other items
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Justice I.N Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu, Enugu State on Monday March 15, 2021 convicted and sentenced two internet fraudsters, Ferdinand Chikelu Iloka, and Chidera Oleka, to one year imprisonment each on separate one count bordering on internet fraud. The duo were charged with impersonation and using fake social media accounts to obtain
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Police operatives have arrested 50 suspected armed robbers, kidnappers, and other criminals across the country. The Force Spokesman, Frank Mbah, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, said the operation was carried out by men of the Intelligence Response Team and the Special Tactical Squad of the Force attached to the Operation
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An Iyaganku Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Tuesday, ordered that alleged notorious Fulani warlord in Ibarapaland, Abdullahi Wakili, 70, be remanded in a correctional facility. The police charged Wakili alongside his sons Abu, 45; and Samaila, 27; as well as Aliyu Manu, 20; with six counts bordering on conspiracy, murder, kidnapping
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The Imo State Police Command has arrested suspected kidnappers of the auxiliary bishop of Owerri Archdiocese of the Catholic Church, Bishop Moses Chikwe. According to the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Orlando Ikeokwu, who confirmed this on Tuesday, the suspects were arrested in coordinated operations that took operatives through Imo and Anambra States.
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Four students of Government Secondary School, Akim Qua Town, Calabar suspected to be cultists were yesterday, handed over to a detachment of the anti-cultism unit of the Nigerian Police Force for interrogation. The students were busted in the premises of the school after security agents were hinted about some disturbing trends they were engaged in
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The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of Temitope Oluwasanmi and Augustine Olayinka before Justice Mojisola Dada of a Special Offences Court, Lagos State High Court, Ikeja. The convicts were arraigned in December 2017 on a six-count charge bordering on conspiracy, stealing and fraudulent diversion of
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