Operatives of Gombe and Ibadan Zonal Commands of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have arrested 46 suspected internet fraudsters. Dele Oyewale, EFCC spokesperson in a statement on Friday in Abuja that 27 of the suspects were arrested in Bauchi, while 19 were arrested in Ibadan. According to him, the suspects were arrested at D&D Apartment and Bubes Hotel, Yelwa, Bauchi State, following credible information on their suspected involvement in internet-related offences. According to...

A cleric, Adewale Adelu, and five others have been sentenced to death by hanging over their role in armed robberies in Ondo state. The Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure said the convicts, Adelu, including Ikechuckwu Maduagwu, Fayemi Olubusuyi, Ropo Adeleye, Dele Otopka, and Bayo Omotosho were found guilty of attacking and robbing two commercial banks in Akure, the state capital and Idanre 13 years ago. The robbery incidents occurred at the defunct Diamond...

The Nigerian Army (NA) on Tuesday smoked out terrorists in Yadi Forest in Kidandan village in Kaduna. The “deep clearance operations”, according to the NA spokesman Major General Onyema Nwachukwu on Wednesday, led to the killing of one of the terrorist gang members. The terrorist fighter was killed in the heavy firefight between the soldiers and the outlaws. Other gang members subsequently took to their heels to avoid meeting a similar fate. “During the operation,...

Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested no fewer than 10 suspected human traffickers, including eight females and two males for stealing six children from different locations in the country for transactional purposes. Umar Nadada, the State Commissioner of Police disclosed this in Lafia while parading 57 suspects arrested for committing various crimes in the state. He said 45 children had been stolen and sold by the 10-member syndicate to clients who paid huge sums of...

The people of Gurjaje and Malari villages in Fika county of Yobe State are dressed in sorrow after a devastating attack on their communities on Monday night by herdsmen of the Fulani tribe. According to a Chad Basin security and counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, the attack was a reprisal for the pushback of the villagers after their watermelon farms were destroyed by the herdsmen’s cattle. The incident reportedly happened in January and in retaliation, the...

Some officials of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) who were on enforcement operation against substandard drugs at Area 1 Motor Park Abuja were attacked by hoodlums on Monday. The NAFDAC officers and journalists were able to scamper for safety after police officers shot into the air several times, and released teargas to disperse the hoodlums. The hoodlums harassed the enforcement officers, including mobile policemen, and stoned the Agency’s vehicle,...

Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri has convicted Aisha Alkali Wakil, popularly known as Mama Boko Haram, and two others, Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Soyade to 10 years imprisonment for a fraud worth N40 million. The presiding judge, Justice Umaru Fadawu on Monday convicted the trio of Wakil, Daura, and Soyade after they were arraigned by the EFCC on two counts of conspiracy and obtaining by pretense to the tune of forty...