Category: CRIME
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EFCC breaks silence on sting operation on Akure clubs
Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) have arrested 127 suspected internet fraudsters in Akure, Ondo State capital. The Commission made this known in a statement posted on its X handle(formerly Twitter) on Saturday. According to the statement, the alleged internet fraudsters were arrested in an early morning sting…
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Just In: EFCC raids clubs, lounges in Akure
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Friday night reportedly raided some clubs and lounges in Akure, the Ondo State Capital. It was gathered that the EFCC operatives arrived at a popular club in Alagbaka axis of the state capital few minutes after 1am and shot sporadically into the air and allegedly ransacked…
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NDLEA declares couple wanted, arrests 4 cartel members over cocaine seizures. Intercepts China, UK-bound drug consignments concealed in steel bolts, shea butter; recovers 2,025 explosives in Niger, Kano, Sokoto; arrests 70-year-old grandpa in Borno for dealing in illicit drugs
A couple, Kazeem Omogoriola Owoalade (alias Abdul Qassim Adisa Balogun) and Rashidat Ayinke Owoalade (alias Bolarinwa Rashidat Ayinke), who runs a cocaine cartel from India has been declared wanted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA following the arrest of four members of the syndicate in Lagos where a Sports Utility Vehicle was recovered…
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NDLEA intercepts 3 trailer loads of opioids, seizes 3.5million pills, 344,000 codeine bottles. Arrests 75-year-old grandpa in Ekiti, 70-year-old grandma in Benue for illicit drugs dealing; destroys 11, 636.185kg cannabis in Edo forest
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted three trailer loads of opioids comprising three million four hundred and fifty thousand (3,450,000) pills and three hundred and forty-four thousand (344,000) bottles of codeine syrup at Abule Ado in Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos state where three suspects were also arrested…
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Qatar-based businessman, others to spend New Year in custody over drug trafficking
. As NDLEA intercepts drug consignment going to bandits in Kebbi, Zamfara, arrests supplierBarely hours to the new year, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a Qatar-based businessman, Agu Evidence Amobi, and one other, Uchegbu Onyebuchi Obi with consignments of psychoactive substances at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos.While Amobi was arrested on Saturday 30th December at the departure point of…
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Plateau Killings: Ajulo Urges Tinubu to Take Action, Form Special Committee
Prominent lawyer and human rights advocate Dr. Olukayode Ajulo (SAN) has issued a passionate plea to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, calling for decisive action to address the ongoing violence in Bokkos and Barkin-Ladi Local Government Areas of Plateau State. In an open letter released today Ajulo, expressed his deep concern for the communities grappling with…
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NDLEA intercepts 7.5m tramadol pills, 95,400 codeine bottles Christmas consignments
. Arrests 70-year-old grandma, her son for drug trafficking as Agency’s sniffer dogs uncover cocaine in India-bound shipmentDesperate attempts by transnational criminal organisations to flood Nigerian communities with large quantities of assorted illicit drugs during the yuletide season have been thwarted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, who intercepted millions of tramadol 225mg pills, thousands of codeine syrup bottles and bags of Canadian Loud in consignments arriving the…
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NDLEA arrests 3 blind members of drug syndicate; intercepts 3.2kgs Saudi-bound cocaine
No less than Fourteen Million, Four Hundred and Eighty One Thousand, Five Hundred and Nineteen (14, 481, 519) pills of Tramadol and bottles of codeine syrup worth over Thirteen Billion Naira (N13,000,000,000) in street value have been recovered by operatives of the National Drug Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in three major busts of drug cartels operating…
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Police confirms arrest of Naira Marley over MohBad’s death
The Nigerian Police, Lagos State Command, has disclosed that the Afrobeats singer, Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley has been arrested for interrogation over the death of his former signee, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly as Mohbad. Police spokesperson in Lagos, Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this on Tuesday via his X-page (formerly Twitter).He wrote: “Azeez Fashola aka…
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NDLEA raids drug warehouse in Lagos, recovers N4.8billion worth of opioids
. Intercepts $20miilion counterfeit notes in Abuja; arrests wanted teenage bandit in Sokoto, another teenager for drugs in EnuguMulti-billion naira worth of illicit drugs were again seized at a warehouse tucked in the midst of popular International Trade Fair Complex, Alaba, Ojo area of Lagos by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA on Saturday 19th August.Recovered from the warehouse owned by a wanted billionaire drug baron, include: 1.4 million (1,400,000)…