A Brazilian returnee and father of two, Okolie Paulinus Nwabueze, has been arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)for importing Ninety Two (92) wraps of cocaine, which he ingested and eventually excreted after days under observation in...
The police command in Lagos State on Sunday said 35 suspected armed robbers were arrested between June and August in the state. The command’s Spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Hundeyin said 13 other suspected armed robbers were killed in different parts of the...
The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested a 29-year old Chinese national, Gang Deng, for suspected illegal mining in Ilorin, Kwara State. The anti-graft Commission's Head of Media and Publicity, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, who disclosed this, said Deng was arrested on Friday, September...
Operatives of the Police Command in Rivers State have rescued 15 children who were kidnapped within and outside the State and kept in the house of a fake Reverend Sister in Aluu, Ikwerre Local Government Area of the State. Commissioner of Police in the State, CP Friday Eboka, disclosed this...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has said that it has seized no fewer than 286 assets and 600 bank accounts of drug barons between January 2021 and August 2022. NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a document Tuesday, said the assets consisted of 249 exotic cars...
Forty-six persons have been abducted from a mosque by terrorists disguised as worshippers. According to the Zamfara Police Command's spokesman Mohammed Shehu, who announced the incident Friday, the worshippers were abducted from Jumu’at Central Mosque in Zugu town, Bukkuyum council area which is about 170 km from Gusau. TheFact Daily gathers from...
At least N11.9bn of public funds were carted away from the treasury of Kwara State between 2011 and 2019 without any lawful tie to any project or programme, a forensic audit report has revealed, amid other mind-boggling revelations of alleged malfeasance within the period. The audit also showed that N2bn...
Police officers in Zamfara have arrested a former soldier and notorious bandit who also supplies arms to terrorists in the northwestern State. The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Mohammed Shehu, disclosed this Thursday, while parading the suspect in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital. TheFact Daily gathered that the suspect,...
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has disclosed that the country lost over 9 million barrels of oil to crude oil theft in the first quarter of 2022. Aregbesola said this recently, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, while commissioning 8 gunboats acquired by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence...
Troops of the Nigerian Army, NA, in continued patrols and clearance operations have eliminated 1 bandit and captured 3 others in Kaduna State. According to the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu on Tuesday, the neutralization and capturing of the bandits was carried out on Monday, 29 August...