Crime & City Diary

EFCC nabs 13 fake BDC operators in Lagos

Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested thirteen fake Bureau De Change operators in Lagos. A statement by the commission’s Head, Media & Publicity, Dele Oyewale, on Tuesday, said they were arrested for operating BDC without an appropriate licence. The suspects are Abdulahi Musa, Garba Abdullahi, Dauda Hussaini, Jubril Musa, Abdulwaheed…

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17-year old boy strapped with bomb caught in a bank

A yet-to-be identified 17-year old boy  was reportedly caught trying to plant a bomb within the premises of a bank in Plateau State. DAILY POST gathered that the incident occurred on Monday, when the suspect was found with Person Borne Improvised Explosive Device, SPBIED, strapped to his body in Dadin Kowa town, Jos South area of the state. According to…

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BREAKING: Arraignment of former Aviation Minister, brother stalled

The scheduled arraignment of Former Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika; and his brother, Ahmad Sirika, for yet another case of contract fraud in the sum of ₦19.4 billion did not go ahead as the defendants were absent from court on Tuesday, and out of Abuja. Counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Oluwaleke Atolagbe, informed the presiding judge, Justice…

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Landlady, husband on the run after allegedly dumping tenant’s body in canal

By Innocent Raphael One Bola Abiodun, said to be a landlady and her husband, identified as Sunday, have fled their residence in Temidire community, Ogun State, following accusations of disposing of their tenant’s body in a nearby canal. The incident, which is said to have transpired around 12:05 pm last Wednesday, prompted a swift response from the state police command,…

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BREAKING: Security Agencies rescue 17 abducted commuters in Katsina

A combined security force has rescued 17 abducted passengers mostly males from the clutch of violent extremists in the Solar General Area of Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State. A military source said the success followed a distress call received on May 11, 2024, at about noon. He said the Nigerian Army Team 9 Troops, in collaboration with the…

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NDLEA seizes 3 trailer loads of opioids, codeine bottles

…as elderly couple arrested for drug dealing in Ekiti, Benue… By Innocent Raphael The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives have intercepted a significant haul of opioids in Lagos, seizing three trailer loads containing over 3.4 million pills and 344,000 bottles of codeine syrup at Abule Ado. NDLEA made the disclosure on Sunday among details of other operations in…

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Unknown gunmen assassinate FIRS employee in Abuja

By Innocent Raphael Tragedy struck in Maitama, Abuja, on Friday night as unidentified gunmen fatally shot Khalid Bichi, a middle-aged man and employee of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The incident reportedly occurred before 9 pm while Bichi was out to purchase food. Eyewitness reports indicate that the assailants, whose identities remain unknown, approached Bichi and opened fire, striking…

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EFCC cautions banks to stop supporting fraudulent customers 

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has cautioned compliance officers of banks in Nigeria to stop disclosing the anti-graft agency’s investigative activities to their customers. EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, made the call through the Acting Zonal Director of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the EFCC, ACE I Hauwa Garba Ringim, during a stakeholders’ meeting with Compliance Officers of Banks…

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2 die in Lagos tanker fire accident

Two persons have died in a tanker fire accident in the Surulere area of Lagos State. The Director/CEO of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service Margaret Adeseye, in a statement issued on Saturday, said the agency received a distress call late Friday about the tanker accident at the Ijesha end of the Cele link bridge in Surulere, Lagos. “At…

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Arrested Lagos gays narrate how they kidnap, extort, rape male victims

These are indeed evil days and strange things are happening. At the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, eleven suspected criminals who were arrested in the highbrow Lekki area of the state have confessed that they belonged to a vicious gang of homosexuals that kidnap, extort and rape their male victims. Shockingly, they disclosed that their victims were only healthy-looking males…

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