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Data from a recent investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has listed nine areas in Lagos State as hotbeds for suspected internet fraudsters. Most of the areas are in Lekki, according to the data…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 10 persons for forex scams. The suspected fraudsters allegedly forged travel documents to procure foreign exchange from commercial banks in Kano. The…
No fewer than nine persons were in the late hours of Tuesday allegedly killed and scores injured by gunmen that attacked Bagana community in Omala Local Government Area of Kogi State. A resident, who survived by the…
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) has confirmed Tuesday’s security breach. A large number of bandits attacked the NDA campus in Afaka, Kaduna State, around 1:30 am. Lieutenant Commander Wulah and Flight Lieutenant CM…
Bandits have invaded the Afaka barracks of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna, killing a naval officer. According to a report by Daily Trust, the bandits were also said to have also kidnapped two majors. The…
Three abducted Bethel Baptist School students on Tuesday escaped from bandits’ den miraculously. A security source who also confirmed the students' return said: “In the course of our operations, we saw three of the…
Two suspected kidnappers have been shot dead while collecting ransom in Sabongida town in Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State. The suspects had abducted an elderly man identified as Alhaji Gambo. The suspected…
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has confirmed the clash between some of its officers and residents of Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State. There are reports that no more than three people lost their lives…
The Kano Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested twenty suspected Internet fraudsters in Dutsinma Local Government Area of Katsina State. The suspects who were mostly youth in their…
Major General Hassan Ahmed, former Provost Marshal of the Nigerian Army, has been assassinated in Abuja. He was murdered Thursday night in the Abaji area. The assailants also kidnapped his wife. A source close to the…
In the early hours of Tuesday July 13, 2021 a team of operatives from the Lagos Zonal Office of the Commission, acting on verified intelligence on the activities of a suspected syndicate of internet fraudsters carried…
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested more suspects in connection with the murder of the late Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga. The Lagos Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu, made this known during…
Police in Haiti say they have arrested a doctor they believe is a key suspect in organising last week's assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. They say Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a 63-year-old Haitian national, flew…
A boxer who killed his brother with a single punch has been jailed for five years and two months. Dominic Robson has been jailed for manslaughter after he killed his brother, Jordan Bell, outside a bar in Sunderland in…
A dispatch rider has reportedly disappeared with his boss' bike on his first day of work. From the information gathered, efforts to contact the suspect identified as Emmanuel Samuel by his boss have proven abortive. All…
An attack by gunmen on three communities in Zamfara State on Thursday, July 8, 2021, has left 26 persons dead and 7 injured. Sources said the attack was launched by three terror groups, between the hours of 12:20 p.m.…
Giwa Nurudeen, a 24-year-old final year student of the University of Ilorin, on Thursday, July 8, bagged three years jail term having been found guilty of offences bordering on N35m internet fraud. Nurudeen was…
Bandits, who abducted 121 students of the Bethel Baptist High School, Maraban Rido, Kaduna State, have reiterated their demand for rice and other foodstuffs to feed the abductees. A top official of the school, who is…
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated after a group of unidentified people attacked his private residence, the country’s interim prime minister said in a statement Wednesday. First Lady Martine Moïse is…
A man identified as Michael Bassey, a 45-year-old man who is the pastor of the United Evangelical Church has been arrested by the Cross River state police command for allegedly being in possession of a human skull.…
