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NDLEA Arrests Traditional Ruler, Corps Member, Others For Drug Tråff¡cking The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested the head of Akarabata community in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Ba’ale Ige Babatunde, 50, with fresh cannabis plants that weighed 5kg. Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement on Sunday, July 7. He said two suspects: Monday Ali, 49, and Jimoh Alewi, 37, were arrested when NDLEA operatives raided Ikota forest in Ifedore LGA, Ondo state where a total of 42,500kg cannabis was destroyed on 17 hectares of farmland. Babafemi added that 73.5kg of…

EFCC Warns Nigerian Youth Against Planned Protest, Vows To Deal With Protesters The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has warned Nigerian youths ahead of planned protest against the commission. In a press release by EFCC, the commission disclosed that some groups have been ‘actively campaigning in the social media’ and they are ‘recruiting impressionable young Nigerians, including students to take up “arms” against the EFCC.’ See the press release below: EFCC WARNS PROMOTERS OF PLANNED PROTEST The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, wishes to alert the general public on the plan by a shadowy group to instigate a…

Ogun Police Kill Two Kidnappers, Rescue Abductees The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alamutu, on Wednesday, said that the operatives of the command in a gun duel killed two kidnappers who were among the hoodlums that abducted four travellers along Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode expressway on Sunday night. Alamutu equally said that the four abducted travellers, one Nigerian and three Indian nationals, had regained their freedom. The Commissioner disclosed this on Wednesday at a press briefing at the state command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta. Recovered from the kidnappers were 109 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, five AK47 rifles, eight AK magazines, and two cell…

Fake EFCC Officers Plotting Kidn@pping Arrësted The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested four suspected fake Economic Financial Crimes Commission officers while planning to abduct and collect N150 million ransom from their victim (name withheld). Parading the suspects alongside other suspects at the command headquarters in Ikot Akpanabia, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital on Monday, the Commissioner of Police, CP Waheed Ayilara, said the principal suspect, Emmanuel Akpayak, masterminded the kidnap of the would-be victim whom he owed over N12 million as he tried to extort money from him and subsequently kill him to evade repayment of his debt.…