Funke Busari, Lagos Food scarcity looms in the country if attack of Boko Haram members on Nigerian citizens is left unchecked. This is the prediction of a renowned security expert who was a former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services, DSS, Mr. Dennis Amachree. Dr. Amachree stated this at the 2020 Annual Lecture/Awards Series of the Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria, CRAN, with the theme: “Managing COVID-19 Related Security Challenges” held at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos State on Thursday. Giving his perspective, Amachree said the advent of COVID-19 had heightened insecurity across the land with an escalation in…
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Funke Busari, Lagos The Nigerian Navy has declared 43 of its personnel wanted for desertion on Thursday. The officers were declared as deserters bound to face dire consequences if found, a circular by Navy authorities disclosed. Meanwhile, names and photographs of the deserters have been displayed at the Navy headquarters in Abuja. Report has it that the officers fled while serving on Naval Vessels and ships on foreign missions to different European countries. The circular also added, “Above are the Nigerian Navy Personnel who have deserted from Service recently. Accordingly, you are please requested to assist in providing useful information…
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force have arrested two members of a trans-national kidnap syndicate involved in the kidnap of an American citizen, Philippe Nathan Walton, on 28th October, 2020 at his farm in Masalata Village, Republic of Niger. The suspects, Aliyu Abdullahi 21 years a.k.a Mallam and Aliyu Umaru 23 years a.k.a Kwatte Kusu, both from Sokoto State, were arrested on 25th November, 2020. The suspects – members of a 15-man kidnap gang of Nigerian/Nigerien extraction, led by Barte Dan Alhaji and Dan Buda – were arrested following a special intelligence-led operation aimed at arresting the criminal gang, disrupting…
Chris Ihebuzor is now before an Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos for alleged stealing, cyber stalking and demanding money with written threats from Access bank Plc. He was docked by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a 6-count charge bothering on stealing, unauthorized access and modification of computer materials. According to the EFCC prosecutor, Franklin Ofoma, the defendant committed the alleged offence sometime in August, 2020 in Lagos. The offence is in violation of Sections 278(1) & (2), 285 (1), 300, 385 (1) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2011. According to the prosecutor, Ihebuzor, with intent…
Nigeria’s President, President Muhammadu has urged state governors to work more with traditional rulers and community members so as to improve local intelligence gathering that will aid the work of security agencies in the country. He urged 36 state governors to employ this strategy at a meeting held on Tuesday in Abuja to tackle the issue of security. In a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity), Garba Shehu disclosed that the President listened to presentations by a governor from each of the six geo-political zones on their specific security challenges, recalled that in the old…
The claims that Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC investigators pressured former bankers, standing trial for allegedly defrauding the Central Bank of Nigeria in the mutilated currency scam, for a bribe of N96 million for their release on bail, is untrue. Three former bankers, Ayodele Adeyemi, Ishaq Akano and Ajiwe Adegoke had in separate affidavit deposed to at the Federal High Court, Ibadan, Oyo State and published in an online platform, alleged that one Hammadama Bello, an operative of the EFCC asked them to raise N96 million to be set free. The trio who are among ex-bankers, indicted in a…
Top security practitioners, politicians, business executives, traditional rulers and many others from different walks of life are expected at the 29th edition of the annual lecture/award ceremony of the Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria, CRAN. The epoch making event is billed to hold on Thursday, December 10, 2020 at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, along Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos. In a statement by the Chairman, CRAN Lecture/Award Organizing Committee, Mr. Emmanuel Edom, this year’s lecture has its theme as “Managing COVID-19 Induced Security Challenges. The lecture would be delivered by Mr. Dennis Amachree, a former chieftain of the Department…
Funke Busari It’s cheering news now as the Governor of Benue State, Dr. Samuel Ortom has reconciled Ifeyinwa and Pius Angbo whom news of domestic violence trailed this morning. In a tweet by one Emma Ik Umeh, a picture of the couple hugging each other after the governor’s intervention was attached. Recall that in a viral video the woman, Ifeanyiwa had accused her husband, a staff of Channels TV of beating her up repeatedly in their six years of marriage. While granting interview shortly after the reconciliation meeting Pius promised not to beat his wife again.
Funke Busari There is more trouble for a Channels Television Reporter Pius Angbo as his employer is set to prove the allegation of domestic violence leveled against him by his wife, Ifeyinwa Angbo. News of alledged domestic violence began trending on Monday that the wife of Channels TV staff, who is a medical doctor claimed that her husband of six years, Pius Angbo beat her up barely four weeks after she had their fourth child. The woman also accused the TV presenter of beating her up repeatedly in their six years of marriage. Ifeyinwa in a two minutes viral video…
The Appeal Court sitting in Owerri has declared Frank Ibezim the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC in the Imo North senatorial by-election. The court set aside the judgement of the lower court delivered on the 6th of November on the grounds that the lower court had no jurisdiction to entertain the matter. The three-man panel Hon Justice. U. Onyemenam, Hon justice J.Y Tukur, Hon Justice M.B Idris of the appellate court held that the plaintiff at the lower court had no locus standi to file such a suit since she was not a party to the election and…