Crimes
Cybercrime: 16 Chinese remanded in prison custody
A Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, has ordered the detention of 16 additional Chinese nationals at the state’s correctional facility concerning a fraud case brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The EFCC announced this development in a statement on Tuesday. The suspects are part…
Read More »18yo mother throws newborn baby from hotel window in Paris
By Deborah Nnamdi A newborn baby died in Paris Monday after his 18-year-old American mother threw him out a hotel window, umbilical cord still attached, French prosecutors and a police source said. She threw the infant from the second-floor window of a hotel in the 20th arrondissement in eastern Paris,…
Read More »Wife stabs husband to death in Bauchi – Police
A 25-year-old housewife, identified as Salamatu Danjuma has been arrested by the Bauchi State Police Command over the alleged killing of her husband in Nadabo village, Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of the state. The state police command in a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Ahmed Wakil, revealed…
Read More »NDLEA nabs 24yo Thai drug courier with 46kg of loud
By Deborah Nnamdi Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have thwarted an attempt by a 24-year-old Thai lady, Ms. Pattaphi Wimonnat, to smuggle 43 parcels of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis weighing 46.60 kilograms, into Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos.…
Read More »Pastor, 6 abducted as gunmen attack Delta church
Panic gripped residents of Ogwashi-Uku in the northern part of Delta State on Saturday following a bloody attack on a church, identified as Elyon Paradise Ministry, in the town. One of the presiding apostles, identified as Divine Omodia, is currently undergoing medical treatment for severe gunshot wounds that he sustained…
Read More »Court orders final forfeiture of Emefiele’s $4.7m, N830m, property
Emefiele in court today By Deborah Nnamdi A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Friday ordered the final forfeiture of $4.7m, N830m, and multiple properties linked to the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria Godwin Emefiele. The judge, Justice Yellim Bogoro, who had earlier dismissed an application…
Read More »Troops killed 82 terrorists, rescued 93 kidnap victims in one week – DHQ
By Deborah Nnamdi The Defence Headquarters has said troops on internal security operations across the country have killed 82 terrorists, arrested 198 criminals, and rescued 93 kidnap victims in the past week. In a statement on Friday, the Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj-Gen Markus Kangye, said the troops also…
Read More »EFCC returns $120,548 and N70m to foreign fraud victims
By Deborah Nnamdi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has returned a total sum of $120,548.43 and N70,602,841.46 to victims of fraud from the United States, Spain, and Switzerland as part of its ongoing efforts to combat economic and financial crimes. The funds, recovered from local fraudsters, were handed…
Read More »EFCC arraigns lawyer for alleged N1.3bn fraud
By Deborah Nnamdi The Uyo Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a lawyer, Alexander Ozougwu, before the Federal High Court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, for allegedly defrauding his victims of N1.323 billion. The EFCC’s Head of Media & Publicity, Mr. Dele Oyewale, in…
Read More »Lagos Banker bags four years in Prison for fraud
By Deborah Nnamdi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction of Ugenyi Kalu, a banker, who was sentenced to four years and two months in prison by the Ikeja Special Offences Court for fraud. In a statement shared on its official X (formerly Twitter) page on…
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