LAW ENFORCEMENT

The Director of Operations of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulkarim Chukkol, said the agency has discovered that many of the over 6,000 Bureau De Change in the country were unregistered. He said EFCC operatives raided some BDC offices in Abuja…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested an alleged currency speculator, Mustapha Muhammed also known as Muaspaha Naira, in Abuja The commission made the announcement in a Twitter post on Wednesday and also released a picture of the suspect. The EFCC said the…

The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has said that the planned redesign of the nation’s currency may crash the United States Dollar (USD) to N200.00 The EFCC chairman, who stated this on a radio programme on Deutsche…

Following the deteriorating security situation on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the Inspector-General of Police (IG), Usman Baba, yesterday, ordered a restructuring of the security architecture on the expressway. A statement by Force Headquarters said the measure was designed to provide adequate deployment of officers…

The Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Ali, on Monday, confirmed the arrest of nine suspected bank account hackers in the state. Ali, while addressing journalists on the development, said the syndicate specialised in using tricycles to rob passengers of their valuables in…

Acting on credible intelligence, the Special Intelligence Squad of the Commandant General, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has smashed a notorious fake dollar syndicate. It was gathered that the syndicate specialises in the printing, sales and distribution of fake United States…

Operatives of the Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU) have foiled an attempt by suspected hackers to squander N28 million of N30 million they stole from the accounts of a new generation bank’s customers. The police unit said it secured a court order mandating…

Deputy Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Bayelsa State, Mr. Raymond Terwase Gaadi, has disappeared. Gaadi was posted from Enugu State Command to Bayelsa to take over as the second in command in April. Gaadi’s phones have been switched off…

Ten days after he was declared wanted, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested fleeing Lagos socialite and owner of Adekaz Hotels, Alhaji Ademola Afolabi Kazeem (a.k.a Alhaji Abdallah Kazeem Muhammed) over offences bordering on exportation and trafficking…

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has seized no fewer than 97 property from different individuals in the past four years. The list of seized assets include 33 buildings, plots of land and a factory forfeited to the Federal Government by…