Category: Crime Watch
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INSECURITY! Bandits threaten Benue community, demand N20m tax or face deadly attack
Bandits have warned the residents of Torough community in Ukum local government area of Benue State to pay a N20 million tax or face a violent attack. This dire situation has put the community into a frantic scramble to gather the demanded sum. Many Residents are desperate to avoid the threat and have started selling…
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INSECURITY! Gunmen k!ll 9 persons, abduct 50 others in Katsina
Gunmen launched a severe attack on Maidabino town in Katsina State Saturday night. The assault began at around 7:00pm and continued until 2:00am, during which the gunmen went from house to house, terrorizing residents and committing heinous acts of violence. During the seven-hour onslaught, nine individuals were killed, and over 50 people were abducted. The…
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Suspected thief electrocuted to death in Benue
The Police Command in Benue said a suspected vandal, Inalegwu Elias, was electrocuted when he attempted to vandalise a Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JED) transformer in Otukpo.
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Police neutralise kidnap suspect, arrest 4 others in Delta
The Police Command in Delta has neutralised a suspected member of a kidnap gang during a shootout in Ughelli North Local Government area. The command’s spokesman, SP Bright Edafe told newsmen on Friday in Warri that the other members of the gang escaped during the shootout.
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UNIBEN fresh graduate raped, murdered; Edo govt reacts
The Edo Government on Wednesday condemned the alleged rape and gruesome murder of one Glory Adekolure, a fresh graduate of the University of Benin (UNIBEN).
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Tinubu does not interfere with our work – EFCC boss
Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede has disclosed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has greatly shown immense political will in the fight against economic and financial crimes by not interfering in the works of the Commission.
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FBI renews strategic alliance with EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Friday brokered a renewed strategic alliance towards tackling the menace of internet crimes and other waves of emerging and old crimes that are of mutual interests to Nigeria and the United States.
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Butcher jailed 14 years in Lagos
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Friday sentenced a butcher, Jelili Moshood, to 14 years imprisonment for attempting to rape a vulnerable 78-year-old woman suffering from dementia.
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EFCC arrests 40 suspected internet fraudsters in Abuja
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday arrested 40 suspected internet fraudsters at different locations in Abuja.
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Police nab international car theft suspect
The Police Command in Kaduna State, said its operatives have arrested an international car theft suspect and recovered an anti-tracker jammer in Kaduna.