The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have agreed to work together to tackle insecurity by confronting the menace of illicit drugs and substances consumption. The need for the collaboration was brought to the fore when the Commandant General of NSCDC,...
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team, working with the Taraba State Police Command, have arrested eleven notorious kidnapping suspects for their complicity and various criminal roles in the State. The arrest of the suspects was contained in a statement issued Sunday, 19 December, 2021 by the Force Public...
The Kaduna State Police Command has reacted to allegations of complicity and compromise on its part in the fight against banditry in the State. The reaction was contained in a statement issued Tuesday, December 15, 2021, by the State Command's Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige. TheFact Nigeria reports that the...
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team, IRT, have arrested four suspects in connection with the abduction and gruesome killing of one Mrs Nneka Nwanyi-Sunday Emeh Kalu. According to a statement issued Tuesday,  December 15, 2021, by the Force Public Relations Officer, FPRO, CP Frank Mba, Mrs. Kalu, who...
Two persons have received the 2021 Public Service Integrity Award, while another has been named the Citizens Anti-corruption Volunteer Group Icon at the 3rd National Summit on Diminishing Corruption In The Public Service. The awardees were presented to President Muhammadu Buhari, by the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and...
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, has named illegalities in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as factors responsible for the high cost of governance in the country. Owasanoye made the revelation on Tuesday, 30th November, 2021, while delivering a speech...
The ongoing trial of Emmanuella Eteta Ita, Head of Stakeholders Unit of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, and Surestart School Limited continued on November 22, 2021 before Justice F. Giwa Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court, Abuja with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC presenting two more...
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has acknowledged the receipt of the sum of N19, 333,333,333.36 (Nineteen Billion, Three Hundred and Thirty-three Million, Three Hundred and Thirty-three Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirty-three Naira, Thirty-six Kobo), recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,2 from the Kogi State Salary...
Against the backdrop of recurrent kidnapping incidents in Ogun State, the Commissioner of Police (CP) in the State has appealed for the support of residents to end incessant kidnappings, cultism and other criminal activities in the State. The Commissioner, Lanre Bankole, who made the appeal during the induction of Asiwaju...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has flagged-off a nationwide risk assessment of Non-profit Organizations (NPOs). Speaking on Monday, 15 November, 2021, the anti-graft Commission's Executive Chairman, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, explained that the programme was a collaborative initiative of the EFCC through the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering,...