Crime

Saturday, 26 August 2023 04:53

Boko Haram frees 49 women kidnapped in Borno after collecting ransom from govt official

Forty-nine women kidnapped by Boko Haram earlier in the week near Maiduguri, in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, regained their freedom early on Friday after a state official paid a ransom for their release, two of the victims and a local leader said. The women were abducted on their farms on Tuesday morning in Shuwaei Kawuri village on the outskirts of Maiduguri, two victims who did not want to be identified told Reuters. "We were all released at midnight after Boko Haram said our families secured our release after meeting their demands," one of the victims said. While the Islamists had…

Thursday, 24 August 2023 04:48

Gunmen kidnapped 3,620 in one year. These are the states where most abductions occurred

Between July 2022 and June 2023, 3,620 people were abducted in over 582 kidnapping incidents in the country, with a reported ransom demand of at least N5 billion and an actual ransom payment of over N302million, a figure that could be higher due to underreporting. An SB Morgan intelligence report released on August 23, 2023, entitled, “The Economics of Nigeria’s Kidnap Industry: Follow the Money,” disclosed these figures. Nigeria Police Force and the military high command – the Defence Headquarters, however, have gone silent over the heart-wrenching situation, while security experts called on the Office of the National Security Adviser…

Thursday, 24 August 2023 04:47

AK-47 rifles, other sophisticated firearms being fabricated in Lagos - CP

Lagos State Police Command has expressed worry over the fabrication of various types of firearms, which include local and foreign pistols, AK-47 and other assault rifles in Lagos. This was disclosed by the command boss, Idowu Owohunwa, during the acting Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun’s tour of duty to Lagos, yesterday. Owohunwa, who noted that Lagos State presented distinctive security challenges on account of its demography and socio-economic interplays, said its internal security space in recent times had been laced with the threats of cultism, armed robbery, kidnapping, murder and sexual and gender-based violence. He said the command…

Wednesday, 23 August 2023 04:40

UK police charge Alison-Madueke with corruption

British police said on Tuesday they had charged former Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke with bribery offences, saying they suspected she had accepted bribes in return for awarding multi-million pound oil and gas contracts. Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and top oil producer, has one of the most corrupt political systems in the world and its former colonial ruler Britain has been a destination of choice for Nigerian kleptocrats seeking to enjoy their wealth. Alison-Madueke, 63, served as petroleum minister from 2010 to 2015, under former President Goodluck Jonathan. She also acted as president of the Organization of the Petroleum…

Monday, 21 August 2023 04:34

NDLEA intercepts fake $20m on FCT road - Official

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted $20 million cash suspected to be counterfeit. The agency said its operatives found the stash on Friday during a stop and search operation along Abaji-Lokoja road in the federal capital territory (FCT). In a statement on Sunday, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, said the suspected fake dollars was recovered from a bus coming from Lagos to Abuja, while the driver of the vehicle has been arrested. The agency also seized illicit drugs recovered at a warehouse in Alaba market in Lagos state. The warehouse is said to be owned by a wanted billionaire…

Sunday, 20 August 2023 04:50

Fraudsters stole N9.5bn via banks’ e-channels between January and July 2023 - CBN

Director of Payment Systems Management of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Musa Jimoh, who doubles as the Chairman of Nigeria Electronic Fraud Forum (NeFF), yesterday disclosed that accumulated Electronic Fraud (E-Fraud) within the banking sector and payment systems network has led to a loss of N9.5 billion so far in 2023. Jimoh, speaking at the Q3 2023 general meeting of NeFF in Lagos, where stakeholders converged to discuss “New Strategies for Combating E-Fraud in a cashless Environment”, called for enhanced collaboration within the payment systems’ ecosystem to curtail the rise in E-Fraud. Jimoh said: “We are gathered to see…

Sunday, 20 August 2023 04:41

Scammer poses as ‘God’, asks woman for deposits at ‘Bank of Heaven’

A Spanish man stands accused of taking advantage of an overly-religious old woman by posing as her Lord and Savior and asking her to deposit money at His ‘Church of Heaven’. Could you say ‘no’ to God? What if He called you directly to ask for a favor? Esperanza, an elderly woman from León, in northwestern Spain, could not refuse God when He called her on her telephone and told her to put her savings in His ‘Church of Heaven’, because it offered better interest than earthly ones. The woman never once suspected that she was being scammed, as she…

Saturday, 19 August 2023 05:08

Housewife weeps as wheel barrow pusher escapes with foodstuff bought in Abuja market

A middle-aged woman, simply identified as Mrs Rebecca Gbaje, broke down in tears after a wheel barrow pusher disappeared with the food stuffs she bought at Kwaita village market in Kwali Area Council of the FCT. Our reporter, who was at the market, observed as some customers and traders gathered to sympathize with the woman, while some sympathisers walked round the market in search of the barrow pusher. The woman, while narrating to sympathisers who stood to console her amid tears, said she bought the food items that comprised of Mudus of rice, beans, maize and other ingredients and engaged…

Thursday, 17 August 2023 05:01

Killings by terrorists, criminal gangs took lives of 5,166 Nigerians between January and July 2023 - Report

No fewer than 5,166 Nigerians were killed while there were 1,830 cases of abduction across the country between January and July this year. This is according to a 2023 Nigeria Security Report by Beacon Consulting, an Abuja-based security risk management and intelligence consulting company. According to the report obtained by our correspondent on Wednesday, 749 Nigerians were killed in January; 624 in February; 961 in March; 707 in April; 679 in May; 854 in June; and 592 in July. It also revealed that 208 Nigerians were abducted in January; 173 in February; 411 in March; 302 in April; 168 in…

Wednesday, 16 August 2023 03:54

FG files corruption charges against Emefiele

Federal government prosecutors filed a 20-count indictment against suspended and detained Central Bank of Nigeria governor Godwin Emefiele on Tuesday, one of them accusing him of "conferring unlawful advantages", a government lawyer said. President Bola Tinubu has launched a probe of the CBN under Emefiele after criticising its policies at his inauguration in May, especially moves to prop up the Naira. It was not immediately clear what the new charges were. But court documents deposed by the Attorney General's Office last month showed that Emefiele faced criminal breach of trust and criminal misappropriation of funds charges, among others, which carry…

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Tuesday, 15 August 2023 04:51

Senior Army officer, 10 soldiers die in gunfights with terrorists in Niger state

A major, no fewer than 10 Soldiers and unspecified number of local vigilantes have been killed by gunmen in Zungeru in Wushshi Local Government Area in Niger state. Eight others soldiers were seriously injured during the gun duel on Sunday with the bandits. The Bandits were said to be numbering about 70 and fully armed with sophisticated weapons. The soldiers were also said to have fought the gunmen to a standstill, eliminating over 30 of them, while several others sustained gunshots injuries and are currently hiding in the bush as the soldiers were said to have reinforced to lunch another…

Saturday, 12 August 2023 03:53

Benue women block highway in protest against killings by herdsmen

Protesting Benue women mounted a roadblock on Makurdi/Laafia/Abuja highway on Friday, following the killing of five people by suspected herders. According to a local who simply identified himself as Sunny, five people were killed in separate attacks by suspected herdsmen in two communities in the Guma Local Government area of Benue State. Sunny who spoke to our correspondent on the phone said that three people were killed Thursday night at Ngban and another two at Nyian. Confirming the report, the security officer of Guma Local Government, Christopher Waku, said that five people were killed by suspected herders. Waku said, “Our…

Tuesday, 01 August 2023 04:28

Boko Haram terrorists behead at least 10 farmers in Borno

Islamist militants have beheaded at least 10 farmers in Nigeria's northern state of Borno after attacking their farms, residents said on Monday. Last week, militants killed at least 25 people and wounded others in attacks on two villages in Borno state, a hotbed for insurgency and the center of a more than a decade-long insurgency in Nigeria that has spilled into neighbouring Chad and Cameroon. Abubakar Masta, a farmer who escaped, said the assailants attacked their farms in Kawuri village of Konduga local government area of Borno State on Monday around 08:30 a.m. (0730 GMT), on motorbikes, carrying rifles. "I…

Thursday, 27 July 2023 04:31

ISWAP terrorists kill 25 in Borno, residents say

Islamist militants killed at least 25 people and wounded others in attacks on two villages in Borno state, a hotbed for insurgency, a police source and two residents said on Wednesday. The militants killed 18 herders grazing their livestock in one village and seven other people in another village, both in Kukawa district of the state that borders neighbouring Chad on Tuesday, the police source said. Habibu Ardo, a herder in the area, said "ISWAP fighters (riding) on more than 15 motorcycles attacked our people while grazing in Kukawa and beheaded 18 of them without firing a single bullet on…

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