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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has sealed off different properties owned and acquired with suspected proceeds of crime by former Director of Nigerian Navy Accounts, Rear Admiral Tahir Yusuf (retd.), SaharaReporters has gathered.…

Nigeria’s Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said he does not know what became of the video camera he found at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos in the aftermath of last year’s #EndSARS protest. When asked about what happened to the video…

A  19-year-old man, Muiz Ibrahim, identified as the Chief Executive Officer of Cypterix, a Foreign Exchange Market (Forex) trading platform has allegedly defrauded victims to the tune of over N74million. Some of the victims told SaharaReporters that…

A Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced Abdulrasheed Maina, the former chairman of the now-defunct Pension Reformed Task Team to eight years imprisonment. Maina was convicted after he was found guilty of money laundering. In a judgement delivere…

A notorious suspected kidnapper, Bunmi Ogunremi, 49, has been arrested by the police in Ado-Ekiti for carrying out several kidnap incidents in the state including that of his own mother in-law.     Ogunremi aka Bunmi Bafon who hails from Ado-Ekiti w…

An attack on a military base in Tamsukawu, a village in Kaga local government of Borno state was repelled by troops on Monday afternoon November 8.    The attack is suspected to have been carried out by terrorists belonging to Islamic State of West …

Niger state government on Friday November 5, demolished the home of a suspected notorious kidnapper.    The suspect reportedly confessed to building the house with the proceeds of crime before the demolition exercise was carried out.      The demoli…

A manhunt has been launched for three men after a woman was raped in a horrific attack.   The victim was attacked in the early hours of October 15 in a house in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. Warwickshire Police have released CCTV stills of thr…

A woman believed to be in her early 50s has been arrested alongside another for 'pounding fufu and starting an eatery' under Mallam Junction Overpass in Ghana.    Videos shared online confirmed the operation of a mini eatery at the Mallam ju…

Members of the Ondo state Amotekun Corps have arrested 18 Northern wanderers after intercepting a trailer conveying them from the northern part of Nigeria.   The suspects were arrested along Arakale road in the heart of Akure, the Ondo state capital…

Two policemen have been killed after unidentified gunmen shot them at a stop-and-search point in the Diobu axis of Port Harcourt, Rivers State.   A Commander of a local vigilante group in the area, Phalga Security Watch, Victor Ohaji, who confirmed …

A photo of Bayelsa politician, Olalibo Osain Ibokolo, was among those discovered in a shrine in Rivers State.    LIB  reported that photos of different men and women "in chains" were uncovered in a shrine in Ahoada local Government Area of t…

Matawalle has called on more bandits to embrace his administration's drive for peace in the state. Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle, has vowed to take proper care of any bandit willing to surrender arms and embrace peace. As part of efforts…

Information coming from Dubai are still sketchy but the report is that Nigerian socialites, Hushpuppi and Woodberry have been arrested. They were reportedly picked up for fraud related issues.

A youth corps member (name withheld), on primary assignment in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom, was gang-r*ped by two persons, one Ofonime Essien and Frank Okon, when she went to charge her phone in their house. The Akwa Ibom State Police Command s…

A 19-year-old National Diploma holder of Yaba College of Technology Lagos has been arrested for allegedly blackmailing popular Waka Queen, Salawa Abeni with her nude pictures. The suspect however said he found the nude pictures in a memory card o…

President Buhari stated this during a meeting with members of the National Peace Committee headed by former Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar. Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina quoted Buhari as saying he was “irrevocably” determined to…

A 27-year-old commercial bus driver based in Benue State, Monday Otupa has confessed that he took to robbery and car snatching to enable him get enough money fast, to go back to school.  Otupa and three others - Joseph Oriyan, 27, Basil Fabia…

A junior steward, Peter Udoh who allegedly drugged and robbed former finance minister, Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu has been declared wanted and the police are on his trail. The incident occurred late August at the former minister’s Lagos residence in Ik…

Again, the Tin-Can Island Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has intercepted another 2,671 rifles illegally imported into Nigeria. The guns are alleged to have been imported from Turkey through profiling approach. But what are these peopl…