A 41-year-old man identified as Ifeanacho Marcellinus Ugbor has been arrested by officers of the Nigeria Customs Service at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos for allegedly being in possession of fake $10,000. The suspect was arrested while trying to board an Ethiopian Airline (flight ET900) to Brazil on Friday November 10, 2023. As at the time of his arrest, the suspect was with a valid Nigerian passport. While parading the suspect before newsmen, the Customs Area Controller, …
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Special Intelligence Squad of the Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested 12 suspected railway vandals and impounded two trucks conveying large quantities of stolen railway sleepers. National spokesperson for the Corps, Olusola Odumosu made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday, July 24. He said the arrests were made during three separate operations by the Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad (CG’s SIS) at Kafanchan-Kwoi Road, Jama’a Local Council of Kaduna State, …
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a large consignment of methamphetamine concealed in powdered custard containers as part of a consolidated cargo going to London, United Kingdom at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos. A statement from Femi Babafemi, spokesperson of the anti-narcotic agency says the illicit drug consignment weighing 30.10 kilograms with a street value of N567 million was detected and seized by NDLEA operatives …
Men of the Ogun state police command have apprehended three members of a robbery syndicate who invaded the phone market popularly known as Tarmarc on the 12th of April 2023, where they killed one of the traders after carting away several highly valued phones. The suspects identified as Ajayi Kayode, Habeeb Idowu, and Temitayo Oresanya, were arrested on Saturday 6th April 2023 following a piece of information received by policemen attached to Kemta divisional headquarters that the suspects have …
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested three members of a syndicate that specializes in tampering and stealing prepaid meters of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) in various parts of Ondo State. The Public Relations Officer of the corps in the state, ASC l Daniel Aidamenbor, who confirmed the arrest in a statement on Thursday, May 4, 2023, said the suspects sold the stolen meters to unsuspecting members of the public. “Following …
The police in Ondo state has arrested two hoodlums identified as Sodeeq Adegoke, 24 and Abubakar Ajibola, 24, for robbing a student, Yusuf Joseph, of the sum of N150,000. While being paraded at the state police command on Monday, April 17, one of the suspects, Adegoke, confessed to waylaying the victim on the road to lead him to a deserted area inside the Government Reservation Area in the state capital around 11 am last Friday, April 14. “We …