Crime

Wednesday, 19 October 2022 06:19

Gunmen kill many, abduct at least 10 hospital workers in Niger state

Gunmen have abducted at least 10 healthcare workers in Niger state and killed an unspecified number after bandits invaded a general hospital early on Tuesday, a hospital and military source said. Armed bandits operating for cash have kidnapped or killed hundreds across northwest and Northcentral Nigeria. Niger state officials have said that Islamist militant group Boko Haram had taken over multiple communities in the state, offering villagers money and incorporating them in their ranks to fight the government. The hospital source said more than 20 staff were kidnapped, including patient relatives, while the security source said two people had been…

Tuesday, 18 October 2022 06:11

Gunmen attack church during service, kill 2

Gunmen attacked a church in northcentral Nigeria during a service, killing a woman and her young daughter, a government official said Monday as the hunt for the suspects intensified. The motorcycle-riding assailants arrived at the Celestial Church on Sunday and fatally shot the two victims, according to Jerry Omodara, Kogi state’s top security official. The church is located in the Lokoja area of Kogi state, 105 kilometers (65 miles) from Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja. Sunday’s violence renewed concerns about safety at houses of worship in Nigeria, where at least seven attacks have targeted churches or mosques so far this year.…

Sunday, 16 October 2022 06:04

Another pipeline leading directly to sea used to steal Nigeria’s oil discovered

Operatives of Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, TSSNL, and security officials have uncovered a key illegal underwater pipeline and platform connected to the 48-inch Trans-Forcados Export Trunk Line in Delta State from which bunkers, together with government and security accomplices, directly siphon cleaned crude oil into ships and export overseas. The unearthing of the criminal pipeline and platform attached to the trunk line, operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, is a major breakthrough in the renewed bid by the Federal Government, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, Ministry of Defense and other stakeholders to stop oil theft in…

Friday, 14 October 2022 05:38

Nnamdi Kanu discharged, not acquitted - FG

PRESS RELEASE Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice has received news of the decision of the Court of Appeal concerning the trial of Nnamdi Kanu. For the avoidance of doubt and by the verdict of the Court, Kanu was only discharged and not acquitted. Consequently, the appropriate legal options before the authorities will be exploited and communicated accordingly to the public. The decision handed down by the court of appeal was on a single issue that borders on rendition. Let it be made clear to the general public that other issues that predated rendition…

Thursday, 13 October 2022 06:31

Shell conducts investigation on illegal pipelines built atop its facilities used to steal huge quantities of Nigeria’s oil

Oil major Shell's Nigerian subsidiary is investigating reports that an illegal oil tap ran for nine years on a pipeline it operates, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. An NNPC spokesman said on Sunday the theft point extended from the Trans Escravos pipeline and that the Afremo platform, operated by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), was the suspected exit point of the stolen crude. "We are also conducting an investigation to establish where the theft lines end and whether there have been any breaches of the unmanned platform's security barriers (locks etc.) or any unauthorised use of the…

Thursday, 13 October 2022 06:22

Daughter reveals how father lost $750K online to Nigerian scammers' romantic fraud

The daughter of an elder fraud victim is sharing her story, warning other families of online scammers after her father lost everything to what he believed to be an online romance. Angie Kennard joined "Fox & Friends First" Wednesday to share her story after her late father, Donald Griffith, lost $750,000 to a ring of Nigerian scammers. "Stay as involved as possible, seek an accountant, financial advisors early on as possible so that you understand what they're going through and what their situation is," Kennard told co-host Carley Shimkus. "Keep them away from dangerous Internet sites and just do as…

Tuesday, 11 October 2022 06:25

Nigerian Navy accuses Shell, others of oil theft

Nigerian Navy has fingered International Oil Companies (IOCs) and Multinational Oil Companies (MOCs) as syndicates in the crude oil theft ring in the Niger Delta region. It accused the IOCs and MOCs of deliberately allowing their oil heads open to crude oil thieves to tap into. Aside, it said old oil heads were abandoned all in the guise of it not being economically viable. Specifically, it said each time it alerted the OICs and MOCs of spillage from oil heads, their responses were usually very odd. Recalled that the Minister of State, for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, recently said the…

Tuesday, 11 October 2022 06:24

Tompolo’s company, Navy set fire to vessel caught with stolen crude oil

Operatives of the Nigerian Navy and Tantita Security Services, a firm operated by Government Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo) last night set ablaze an illegal oil bunkering vessel arrested with stolen crude oil aboard in Escravos area of Delta State. The vessel was arrested last Thursday, with seven crew members close to Escravos in Warri Southwest Local government area of the state. At the point of arrest, between 600 to 650 cubic metres of illegally lifted crude oil in five compartments was said to be on board the vessel with registration number L85 B9.50. Nigerian Navy and Tantita Security Services personnel set…

Tuesday, 11 October 2022 06:19

24 hours after attacking police station gunmen kill 4 soldiers in Enugu

Gunmen have shot four soldiers dead in Iyiachi community in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu State. The attack came 24 hours after a police station was attacked and set ablaze in the same local government. Two people, including a policeman and a civilian who had gone to the station to lodge a complaint, were killed by the gunmen. Though details of the attack were still sketchy at press time, a viral video showed the dead bodies of the dead soldiers. In a related development, gunmen yesterday set ablaze a section of Ezza North Local Government Area Headquarters in…

Thursday, 06 October 2022 06:43

4-km oil pipeline running into sea used to steal Nigeria’s oil for 9 years discovered

Officials in Nigeria discovered an illegal connection line from one of its major oil export terminals into the sea that had been operating undetected for nine years, head of state oil company NNPC Ltd said. The 4-kilometre (2.5-mile) connection from the Forcados export terminal, which typically exports around 250,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil, into the sea was found during a clamp-down on theft in the past six weeks, NNPC Chief Executive Mele Kyari told a parliamentary committee late on Tuesday. "Oil theft in the country has been going on for over 22 years but the dimension and rate…

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Tuesday, 04 October 2022 05:48

NDLEA arrests another drug baron in highbrow area of Lagos

National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has busted yet another drug cartel in Lagos with the recovery of drugs with street value of N8,860,000,000. The drugs were recovered in the mansions of a suspected drug baron, Ugochukwu Nsofor Chukwukadibia, on the highbrow residential estate, Victoria Garden City, Lekki area of Lagos, where no less than 13,451,466 pills of tramadol 225mg were seized by operatives of the NDLEA. NDLEA Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, yesterday, said “the arrest of Ugochukwu, who is the Chairman of Autonation Motors Ltd, is coming barely two months after NDLEA uncovered a methamphetamine…

Thursday, 29 September 2022 06:52

Again, gunmen kill five soldiers in Anambra

Gunmen have killed five soldiers in Umunze, a community in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria’s Southeast. The incident happened on Wednesday at about 12:30 p.m. beside a branch of the Zenith Bank, close to the popular Nkwo Umunze market in the area. The gunmen were said to have opened fire on the soldiers who were in their Sienna patrol vehicle, killing five of them in the attack. A yet-to-be-identified resident, said to have been caught by stray bullets, was also killed in the attack. A shop owner in the market, Comfort Mokaogwu, told our correspondent that…

Thursday, 29 September 2022 06:51

Police vow ‘to make examples of the masterminds’ of the attack on Oyo police station

Police in Oyo State have launched a full scale investigation into the attack on its Divisional Police Headquarters at Iganna in Iwajowa Local Government Area of the State. Two persons including a police officer were killed on Tuesday night. The command vowed “to make examples of the masterminds of the unfortunate incident”, adding that an arrest had already been made. This was contained in a statement by the command’s spokesperson, Adewale Osifeso, on Wednesday. Osifeso explained that officers attached to the Iganna Divisional Police Headquarters were attacked unprovoked by the hoodlums on Tuesday. Narrating the incident, he said, “Preliminary investigation…

Sunday, 25 September 2022 06:46

18 worshippers die as terrorists invade mosque during Jum’at prayers

Residents of Ruwan Jema, a community in Bukkuyum area of Zamfara State said terrorists attacked a Jum’at mosque on Friday and killed 18 people. Multiple local sources reported that the attack began a few minutes after 1 p.m. and lasted for over an hour. The attack was suspected to have been carried by terrorists from either the Dogo Gudale gang or Shadari gang, which are based in the nearby Gando forest. An indigene of Bukkuyum town, Abdullahi Salisu, said the terorrists arrived the mosques in motorcycles just as Jum’at prayer was about to start and started shooting at the worshippers…

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