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In continuation of Operation DEEP PUNCH 2, designed to smoke out Boko Haram terrorists inhabiting remote islands in Lake Chad basin lying within Nigerian territory, troops of 8 Division, Nigerian Army, on Operation LAFIYA DOLE, supported by soldiers of the Armed Forces Strike Group have inflicted heavy casualty on Boko Haram terrorists. The operation which commenced about 2 weeks ago was proceeded by coordinated air and artillery bombardment of islands and localities occupied by terrorists, and from where they sneak into Magumeri, Kauram and other locations to loot property and attack security personnel and villagers. So far, 20 terrorists have been killed, captured 17 others, while over 100 elderly men, women and children have been rescued. Preliminary investigation has revealed that a large number of the rescued persons were held against their will and forced to work in farms under life threatening conditions and penurious wages. More investigation and interviews will be...

                          Two Nigerian college students Mustafa Azmir and Jude Nnamdi Achonye were on Wednesday December 20, handed the death sentence by a High Court in Shah Alam for trafficking 3.5 kilogrammes of methamphetamine.                                                             Shah Alam High Court judge Datuk Abdul Halim Aman made the ruling after finding that the prosecution had proven a prima facie case against the accused, Azmir, 28, and Achonye, 30. According to the criminal charge brought against them, Azmir and Achonye were accused of trafficking the drugs at an apartment in Petaling Jaya at 3.30pm on Sept 2, 2014 which is an offense under Section 39B (1)(a) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952.           ...

Apparently inspired by Sharia Law, a Mexican cartel kidnapped a bunch of thieves, and punished them the way  old Islamic law teaches to punish thieves  – by cutting their hands off. Though in this case, the cartel went a step further and tattooed on the victim’s foreheads and forearms messages, such as “ Soy Ratero ” or “ I’m a Thief “. The message on the narcomensaje reads: Esto nos pasó por rateros. Por no respetar mujeres, menores, si con esto no entienden putos roba carros, roba motos, cadenas, celulares, conejeros, en general doble putos, lacras, mata menores. Atentamente Grupo Antiratas Translation of the message: This is what happened to us for being thieves. For not respecting women, minors. If with this you don’t understand, these bitches steal cars, steal motorcycles, chains, cellular phones, they are conejeros, house thieves and thieves in general. And double goes for killers of minors. Attention: Elite Group anti-rats. I was explained by a Mexi...

Pair of young men crashed their motorcycle and one had his leg run over by a truck. The destruction the truck caused to his leg is colossal. That’s about the only word I can think of when trying to describe the level of trauma. At 0:13, the fellow sits up and just shakes his head while looking at his flattened leg. It was that moment of realizing that he will never ever walk normally again. This whole leg is a goner. It will likely need to be amputated at the hip, or close to it. Damn… I do not know where exactly this happened. Thailand, perhaps?

                     The Kaduna State Police command have arrested 2 deadly kidnappers operating within Jere/Katari Axis Of the Abuja-Kaduna highway and Jere-Kagarko road in Kaduna State. The deadly kidnappers who have been on the Police’s wanted list are Adamu Lawan (30yrs old) and Aminu Lawan (25yrs old). They are both in custody as investigations continue.

A well known industrialist Chief Innocent Chukwuma popularly known by his company's name, INNOSON, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC . He was picked up at about 11am at his Savage Crescent , GRA Enugu residence today Tuesday December 19, 2017. His arrest followed hisrefusal to honour invitation by the Commission having earlier jumped an administrative bail granted him in a case being invest igated by the Capital Market and Insurance Fraud Unit of the Commission's Lagos office. Chukwuma rather than honoring invitation by the EFCC, mobilized six truck loads of thugs pretending to be staff of his company to his residence, where they manhandled EFCC operatives. It took reinforcement from the Enugu office of the EFCC to effect the arrest of the industrialist who is currently being grilled by a team of investigators.

                                               A 25-year-old South African woman and a man from Ivory Coast were arrested for drug smuggling in two separate cases at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai media report that Ms Nozipho Nene arrived on an Emirates flight from Dubai with a kilo of cocaine in her travel bag. Customs officials discovered the drugs during a routine search on Friday, December 16. Narcotics Suppression cops and customs officials searched Mr Ibrahim Bakayoko from Ivory Coast after he was spotted acting suspiciously. During an x-ray it was found he had dozens of small packages in his stomach and was given a laxative to clear out his system Bakayoko had been carrying 63 small packages containing 1.13 kilos of cocaine. Both Nene and Bakayoko were arrested and charged before being transferred pending further legal proceedings....

                                         More details have emerged in the brutal murder of a 39-year-old community leader in Oroma Etiti Anam, Anambra West Local Government Area of Anambra State. Late Chudi Julius Chinwuba (a.k.a) Tallest,was allegedly hacked to death on November 15, by persons suspected to be his kinsmen, with whom he had been having a protracted feud.                                                After he was brutally murdered, his wrists and ankles were bound with ropes, while the body was fastened to a sandbag and a concrete block. The body was subsequently dumped in the river. He is survived by a wife, four children and four siblings. According to  The Sun , following a misunderstanding that he allegedly had with his kinsmen, the...

19 year old Lateef Nurudeen of 10, Obadina Street, Lagos Island pictured above, was arrested by men of RRS on December, 1st 2017 at about 12:45 a.m. at the musical concert tagged ‘The Experience’ in Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos for pickpocketing, He was arrested with seven phones he had stolen from worshippers that had come to the Christian concert. Lateef, 19, who was in the company of his six other colleagues at the convention, was sighted holding a bag where he concealed the seven stolen phones, on interception by the officers claimed that he was a barber. Found inside the bag were seven different mobiles phones, charms and a purse. The purse contained an identity card and ATM debit card. The suspect confessed to be the owner of the charms found inside the bag and claimed that the charms are for protection. Defending being in possession of charms at a church crusade, he said “I pray a lot. The charms are for my personal protection. They have been with me for ages. They w...

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP. Edgal Imohimi has ordered the prosecution of one Mr. Folarin Odukoya, a staff of  China Construction Company of Nigeria Limited (CCCN), for attempted suicide. Folarin would have taken his own life at about 11pm on Sunday December 17th if not for the vigilance of one Police Sergeant Bankole Adekoya of 23PMF who observed him critically and discovered that he was up to something sinister and thus informed the Ebute Ero  Divisional Police Officer, SP Sina Olunlade  who arrived the scene with local divers. Folarin on sighting the police team, jumped into the lagoon near the Ebute Ero  Jetty. The divers went after him, rescued and handed him over to the police.  When interrogated, Folarin Odukoya said he wanted to take his own life because his employer allegedly refused to issue him a certificate he believed would have enhance his career. The CP who had earlier charged all police offic...

                                             Following the Lagos state Commissioner of Police directive to Area Commanders and Divisional Police Officers to clamp down on all identified routes within their jurisdictions that was hitherto used by smugglers to bring in  contraband commodities into the country,  the command is happy to announce that the strategy put in place for that purpose has paid off with the interception of six van loads of assorted types of consumables including four van loads of bags of rice and two van loads of poultry products at Mushin in the early hours of today, December 18th. A statement by the state police command's spokesperson, SP Chike Oti. says the unscrupulous business men had driven against the traffic (one way) in order to evade arrest but the operatives of the command beat them to their game. Sequel to t...

The Kaduna Division of the Court of Appeal on Monday, December 18, upheld the judgment of the Kano State High Court which convicted and sentenced a former bank manager, Samuel Owoleye, to 19 years' imprisonment sometime in 2012. Owoyele, a manager at the Union Bank Branch, Bank Road, Kano was prosecuted by the commission for offenses bordering on Obtaining by False Pretence. On the 20th day of June, 2012, the Kano State High Court presided over by Justice Dije Abdu Aboki found the accused person guilty on the three count charge that was preferred against him and convicted him accordingly. The appellant was subsequently sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on count one, and 7 years imprisonment on count 2 without option of fine. However, on count three, he was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment with option of N300,000 fine. While the sentence in count one and two were to run concurrently, the appellant was to serve consecutive sentence in count three. Trouble started for...

   U zosafety has reliably learned that a whopping sum of $2 million was the actual amount of money carted away by the daredevil armed robbers that robbed a billion van in Asaba, the capital city of Delta state on December 8th It would be recalled that on Friday, December 8, 2017, daredevil armed robbers numbering over five using a sienna car attacked a bullion van belonging to a major bank around Koka junction along the Asaba-Benin Expressway and carted away an undisclosed amount of cash, running into several millions of naira as they shot sporadically to scare people away from the scene of the operation. Scene of robbery                                                                      SaharaReporters learned that shortly after the robbery incident, three senior officials of the bank storme...

An estate agent who helped ex-minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, buy properties in the UK has been arrested in Nigeria. PREMIUM TIMES reported how  Adeyemi Edun helped Mrs. Alison-Madueke buy millions of pounds worth of properties in the UK. The former petroleum minister is held up in the UK where she is being investigated for money laundering. In Nigeria, property worth billions of Naira have been seized from her and  forfeited to the federal government  as she continues to be investigated for various corrupt practices while in office. She has denied any wrongdoing and recently asked that she be allowed to return to Nigeria to face corruption charges, a move blocked by the EFCC. Mr. Edun was detained as he arrived Nigeria on Wednesday and is currently being held at the EFCC office in Ikoyi, Lagos, multiple sources told PREMIUM TIMES. “He is being held as part of investigations into Diezani’s multiple corrupt schemes,” an official of the Counter Terror...

H EDA Resource Centre and its International partners - Global Witness, Corner House, Re:Common and World Anti-Corruption Research Network - have received with shock the news of unknown gunmen’s invasion of the farm and farm house of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu where a policeman was reportedly killed as a result of gunfire from the attackers. HEDA condemns this heinous and barbaric act as criminal and as such, an attack that highlights the need for vigilance on the part of citizens and for a thorough investigation into the failures by the security services that allowed the attack to happen. Unresolved criminal activities embolden the perpetrators and others to commit more atrocities. While HEDA is not ruling out the possibility of pro-corruption elements fighting back to take a pound of flesh from EFCC led by its Chairman, for its successful fight against Corruption which have consequence for the corrupt in the country...

The Nigerian Navy says it has recovered 1,330 jerry cans filled with petrol, during a raid on oil thieves in Atlas Cove Island in Lagos. The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Commander, Rear Adm. Maurice Eno, told journalists on Saturday night that the product was evacuated from a storage facility in Ilado/Idimangoro area of the island.   According to the naval chief, the petroleum product was stolen from vandalised NNPC pipelines on Atlas Cove Island.  Eno said that no person was found at the storage facility during the raid.  He said that the navy monitored activities in the area for about three weeks to ascertain the veracity of the information.   “On December 14, at about 8.10 a.m., a detachment of personnel from the NNS Beecroft raided the locations and discovered a storage facility having over one thousand five hundred jerricans. 1,330 of the Jerricans contained product suspected to be premium Motor Spirit(PMS) believed to have been siphoned from the Nige...