LAW ENFORCEMENT

Worried by the increasing rate of road crashes involving over loaded trailers and lorries, the corps marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dauda Biu, has urged the commanders to go after articulated vehicles loaded with human beings and animals plying…

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has suspended the 25% penalty previously imposed in addition to import duty on improperly imported vehicles. According to the Customs Service, this was under the directives of the Honourable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy,…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said its operatives on Monday, March 18, 2024, arrested one Kayode Cole for issuing a death threat against their executive chairman, Ola Olukoyede. A statement by the EFCC Spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, on Wednesday, said the suspect…

The Abuja Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has handed over documents of properties and 324 houses recovered for Kano State pensioners to the affected individuals. The development was a result of an investigation carried out by the EFCC into…

Officers of the Akwa Ibom Police Command have arrested a self-kidnap suspect, Imaobong Sampson, and her boyfriend, Beltus Ebong, in Mbierebe Obio village, Ibesikpo Asutan Area of the state. This was disclosed by the spokesperson for the state police command, Odiko Macdon, on…

Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a 20-year-old hair stylist, Josephine Odunu, and a 30-year-old dispatch rider, Edesemi Ikporo, for selling and distributing illicit drug-laced chin-chin to school students and at social parties in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The development…

The Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on Friday, announced the seizure of a cache of arms, ammunition and drugs imported into the country. The seized items include military camouflage, illicit drugs such as Colorado, heroine, Cocaine among other hard…

Against the backdrop of the rising cases of kidnapping and abduction in the country, the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, has convened a meeting with the Northern Governors’ Forum and Service Chiefs, including the Inspector General of Police and the Commandant…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has alleged that the suspended Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad, along with other senior officials of the agency, are involved in a N12.4 billion fraud. The anti-graft commission said that…

The Kogi State Police Command has admitted complicity in the killing of a lawyer, Elias Ugwu, last week Friday, admitting that the Nsukka-based lawyer was killed in error. Ugwu was killed in Anyigba last Friday by Policemen while he was in the state…