Security

Tension As Abductors Of A-Ibom Corps Members Threaten Parents Over Ransom Parents and family members of the prospective corps members from Akwa Ibom State, who were kidnapped on August 17, 2023 while travelling to orientation camp in Sokoto State are currently gripped with fear as the abductors demand that they pay N10 million each as ransom for the release of the victims. One of the victim’s family member, Mr. Mfon Friday, who disclosed to Vanguard, yesterday, in Uyo so far, a total sum of N30.8million ransom has been paid to the abductors. Friday who spoke angrily over the untold hardship…

EFCC Arraigns Couple For N2.7billion Fraud In Lagos The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, November 28, 2023, arraigned a couple, Oriyomi Idowu and Ruth Idowu, before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on 20-count charges bordering on obtaining money by false pretence, money laundering, stealing, retention of stolen property, and forgery to the tune of N2,757,188,000.00 (Two Billion, Seven Hundred and Fifty Seven Million, One Hundred and Eighty Eight Naira Only). They were arraigned alongside Food Commodity Processing Enterprise, Bonway Food Processing Company Limited, Samee Idowu…

Residents Flee Communities After Bandits Abduct 110 Four communities in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State have been deserted following the abduction of 110 people by bandits for refusing to pay N110 million monthly levy to a notorious bandits kingpin. PUNCH Online reports that bandits, on Friday night, invaded four villages in the local government and abducted 110 people for allegedly refusing to pay the N110 million levy imposed by the notorious bandits kingpin. An indigene of the area, Ibrahim Mohammed, told PUNCH Online on the telephone that residents of the four villages, Mutumji, Kwana, Mahuta and Unguwar Kawo,…

Boko Haram Ambush Governor’s Escorts Atleast six security personnel were wounded when Boko Haram terrorists fired at security operatives returning official vehicles belonging to Yobe State Governor, Alhaji Mai Mala Buni from Maiduguri to Damaturu. Governor Buni was in Maiduguri where he joined other dignitaries to attend the 24th Combined Convocation Ceremony of the University of Maiduguri. The Governor and his entourage who were accompanied by Borno Governor Babagana Zulum, departed to Abuja through the Air Force Base in Maiduguri. Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama, a Counter-Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad region that security vehicles in…