Crime Facts

MMIA Customs command intercepts $8m

Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd) on Tuesday disclosed that the Custom Command at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) had intercepted 8.06 million U.S. dollars from the airport. Ali, during a media briefing in Lagos, said that the dollars loaded in six big `Bagco’ bags were packed in a coaster bus belonging to […]

ICPC Recruitment: 376,631 persons apply for 220 vacancies

The fact that unemployment in Nigeria is a ticking time-bomb has yet again been buttressed by the ongoing recruitment exercise of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). Developments from the recruitment exercise strongly suggest that no substantial intervention may have been made in the area of unemployment in Nigeria even as […]

Obasanjo, Ezekwesili influenced Nigeria’s corruption index – Buhari’s aide

Presidential aide Lauretta Onochie has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the former minister of education Oby Ezekwesili of influencing Nigeria’s latest position on the 2019 global corruption index, News Digest reports. Onochie uploaded the duo’s picture on her Twitter account which she captioned ” here are the #AngryBirds who Founded Transparency International. Should we […]

Police: Protecting hapless Nigerians from predators

The police have committed so many atrocities that their appearance evokes terror in Nigerians. Today, Nigerians fear policemen more than criminals, writes STEVE UZOECHI It was a horrible night in June 2005, when five young men and a lady were brutally gunned down in cold blood by an unfeeling police team. The ugly episode is […]

Forfeiture of N1.5Bn hospital is fairy tale, unconnected to Okorocha or his aide – Spokesman

Spokesman to Senator Rochas Okorocha, the former governor of Imo state, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo has dismissed the reported permanent forfeiture of the N1.5billion ‘Due of Hope hospital’ as untrue. Onwuemeodo also stated that linking the hospital to Okorocha and his former Principal Secretary, Dr. Paschal Obi was cheap blackmail. In a press statement issued Tuesday, […]

Mob Justice: How black magic failed lynched vandals

Three suspected transformer vandals were Thursday night beaten to death as an angry mob of youths from two Imo communities dispensed ‘instant justice’. The vandals who were famed to possess and deploy voodoo powers to induce sleep on security guards at their target transformer houses, were apparently let down by their black magic which could […]