The Lagos
State Commissioner of Police, Mr Zubairu Muazu, yesterday, disclosed that
policemen under his watch will undergo intensiveEmotion Intelligence Training.
The Chief Fire Officer, Anambra State Fire Service, Engineer
Martin Agbili, has accused policemen in the state of beating him black and blue
for allegedly driving pass front of the police headquarters.
More facts have emerged about Chukwuemeka Akachi, a
student of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, (UNN), who committed suicide by
drinking two bottles of sniper on Tuesday.
Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police
Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested a 50-year-old widow,
Mrs. Idowu Ademola, for allegedly bringing foreigners into Nigeria as domestic
servants.
Operatives
of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Lagos State Command, have
arrested two persons and recovered drugs suspected to be Cannabis Sativa worth
N20million concealed in a truck compartment.
The Network on Police Reforms in Nigeria (NOPRIN), has
argued that the increasing cases of police killings in Nigeria were enough to
declare a safety and security emergency.
The Youth Alive Foundation has
demanded that the Police Reform Bill be quickly assented to, in order to check increasing
number of youths embracing crime.
One of the
three suspected armed robbers arrested for robbing women in order to dispossess
them of their vehicles have confessed that he took to the crime after losing N6milllion
in sports betting.
A young man in Ogun State, identified as Segun, has attempted to
take his life after failing to meet the cut-off mark required in the last Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Operatives
of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Lagos State Police Command, have rescued an
accountant, Daniel Okereke (29) , just as he was about to jump off the Third
Mainland Bridge, into the lagoon .
Homicide detectives of the
Enugu State Police Command have launched an investigation after a 400Level
committed suicide by drinking two bottles of sniper, a deadly insecticide.
Justice
Fatun Riman of the Federal High Court sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on
Friday, May 10 2019, convicted and sentenced Daniel Iluobe, Ifeanyi Chukwudi
Paul and Godwin Joseph Ovboke to two years imprisonment each, for internet
fraud.
Justice
Fatun Riman of a Federal High Court, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, has ordered that
eight alleged illegal oil dealers being prosecuted by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, be remanded in prison till May 22, 2019,
when their bail application will be heard.
Want African countries to emulate EFCC over Polygraph’s use for integrity test in investigation
Urge agencies to use enforcement, preventive measures to tackle corruption
Heads
of Anti-Corruption Agencies have requested Heads of Government in
Europe, the United States and other jurisdictions to work towards speedy
and unfettered repatriation of recovered assets to African countries.
... Says Public Ownership Vital
To Winning War against Graft
The
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim
Magu, has said that the anti-graft agency intervened in the recent general
elections in Nigeria, in order to checkmate and prevent the moneybags from
determining the emergence of leaders arising from the polls.
The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has taken note of the reactions
of the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki to the Commission's inquiries
regarding his earnings as Kwara State governor as well as on the quality of his
financial stewardship in the Senate.
Four
officials of the Kwara State government accused of money laundering by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, were on Wednesday, May 8, 2019
returned to the custody of the anti-graft custody, pending ruling on their bail
applications at a later date.
The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, arrested
two fast-rising Nigerian musicians – Afeez Fashola (aka Naira Marley) and
Omoniyi Temidayo Raphael (aka Zlatan), in connection with alleged case of
internet fraud and money laundering. Intelligence report had also linked them
to cybercrime offences.
The
Abuja Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has
secured 16 convictions between November 2018 and April 2019, and recovered more
than N100 million.
Operatives of the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Edo State, have been accused of shooting, arresting civilians
and demanding outrageous bail money.
The distraught parents of a 26-year-old graduate of the
University of Benin, Master Obinna Ezeugwu, who was allegedly abducted two years
ago in Benin City, have accused Edo State Police Command of shoddy investigation.
Operatives of Operation Puff Adder
currently on a nation-wide offensive against kidnappers and other
dangerous criminals, yet again, recorded victory with the rescue of two
kidnapped victims and subsequent arrest of three male
suspects and the recovery of two (2) Ak47 rifles and Two hundred and
fifty eight (258) rounds of live ammunition of 7.62mm caliber.
A group of teachers have accused a member of the Kwara State
House of Assembly, Honourable Adebayo Muhammed of defrauding them N4million
under false pretence.
April
18, is a bloody day residents of Olokonlan and Ogombo communities, Abraham
Adesanya, in Eti-Osa Local Government Area Lagos State, will never forget in a
hurry.
On
that day, the fragile peace, which had characterized the communities, shattered,
leaving decapitated littering the streets.
A father of two, Akpojivi Joel Onoriode (29), described as
kingpin of cybercrime, has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Uyo Zonal Office, Calabar, Cross River
State.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Zubairu
Muazu, has ordered the immediate shutdown of all outposts of the Special Anti-Robbery
Squad (SARS) in the state.
For 28 years,
Babagana Abba Dalori lived a quiet and dreary life. With all the risks to lives
and limbs in his native Borno State, North-east Nigeria, he wished above all
things to graduate safe and alive from the Electrical and Electronics
Department of University of Maiduguri, (UniMaid), do his National Youth Service
Corps (NYSC) scheme and relocate permanently to Abuja to make a living under
the relative safety of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT).
Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP)
Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT) must have heard and listened to
thousands, if not millions of confessions from suspected criminals, but the confessions
of Abba Zamzam (31) take the prize.
The Katsina State Commissioner of
Police, Sanusi Buba, has relocated his office to the state capital Daura, as
operation towards rescuing Magajin Garin Daura, Alhaji Musa Umar Uba, heats up.
Akoogun Festival in Ifo, Ogun State is an
annual celebration. During this festival, every son and daughter of land are
expected to return home. It is a time for prayers for the progress of the town
and Nigeria in general.
Operatives attached to Okoko Police Divisional Headquarters, Lagos
State, led by the Divisional Police Officer, have raided criminal hideouts
inside Alaba Rago market and arrested six suspected Indian helms dealers.
Operatives of the Lagos State Task
Force on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit have arrested
70 suspected criminals between Agege and Oshodi.
A 19-year-old boy, Chisom Obiora, has
allegedly punched a mother in the face in order to abduct her three-year-old
son at the Satellite Town area of Lagos State.
Operatives of the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Edo State, have been accused of shooting, arresting civilians
and demanding outrageous bail money.
The HP Laptop of Mr Vincent Eboigbe, the Deputy Editor of Saturday
New Telegraph Newspaper, has been stolen at the Lagos State Cooperative
Federation (LASCOFED), located along Wempco Road, Ogba, Lagos State.