crimes

Fraudsters Reportedly Sell Lagos Lagoon For N787Million

A US-based Nigerian businessman was dazed in Lagos, when land agents led him to the lagoon after the part-payment for 150 plots offered for N787.5 million. Kennedy Chukwuemeka Nwabuoku told detectives led by DCP Abutu Yaro, at the Force Criminal Investigations

Toothless bulldog: Tinubu's EFCC can't fight corruption - Olu Fasan

In 2022, the FBI launched a criminal investigation against President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, over allegations of tax crimes, drug use and illegal purchase of handgun.

South Africa accuses Israel of war crimes, 'genocide'

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa accused Israel of war crimes and "genocide" in Gaza, as he chaired an extraordinary summit of the BRICS group of nations on Tuesday, November 21.

EFCC freezes N3bn traced to former Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika's brother's account

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has frozen an account belonging to Abubakar Ahmad Sirika, brother of immediate-past minister Hadi Sirika, over an alleged N8.06 billion contract fraud in the Federal Ministry of Aviation.

EFCC revives 13 ex-governors' N772bn fraud cases

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has reopened money laundering cases against 13 former governors and some  former ministers, with the amounts involved running into over N853.8bn.

Over 4 million Nigerian households experienced home robberies in the last 12 months - NBS

This is contained in the Crimes Experience and Security Perception Survey (CESPS) of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which provides insights into the situation of crime at national and zonal levels across the country.

SERAP sues Akpabio, Abbas over "failure to clarify details of N344.85bn NASS budget"

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Tajudeen Abbas over "the failure to disclose, clarify and explain the details National

Nigerian Government asks Interpol to place three Nigerians on watchlist over Buhari's signature forgery

The special investigator appointed by President Bola Tinubu has requested the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to add three suspects to its watchlist for their alleged involvement in a $6,230,000 fraud. The individuals in question are

FG will recover two banks illegally sold to Emefiele - CBN investigator

Jim Obazee, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's investigator probing the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has revealed that the government is on the verge of recovering two banks illegally sold to former CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele. According to the report, Emefiele

9 Ugandan officials thrown in jail for allegedly hacking $16.87 million

Almost a dozen Ugandan government officials have been detained owing to their alleged affiliation with a major financial crime. Recent reports indicate that 9 Ugandan officials in the office of the finance ministry were detained by the police in connection

US court orders FBI, DEA, CIA to release investigation dossiers on Tinubu

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has ordered top US law enforcement agencies to release confidential information generated on President Bola Tinubu during a "purported federal investigation in the 1990s." The judge, Beryl Howell

We'll treat people-smuggling gangs like terrorists - UK PM

United Kingdom has said people-smuggling gangs, who aid illegal and irregular migration into the UK and its allied nations, will, henceforth, be treated as terrorists as part of a new sanction regime. The announcement comes on the heels of a BBC report detailing

Father and son Hamas Terrorists describe how they went house to house to rape and murder Israeli civilians (Video)

Details of the horrific crimes carried out emerged in the weeks after the Hamas attacks which left more than 1,200 people dead and has sparked a fierce retaliation by Israeli forces in Gaza.

SCOAN Worshippers Take Decision after BBC Exposes TB Joshua's Alleged Sexual Crimes, Fake Miracles

They had also accused him of sexual crimes, including orchestrating forced abortions in the church.

Nigerian cocaine kingpin arrested in Thailand Nigerian home decor ideas

A Nigerian national suspected of being a key player in the cocaine trade on the popular tourist island of Koh Phangan, Thailand, has been arrested. Nigerian home decor ideas The arrest, executed on Saturday night, March 1, 2025, near the Pantip Plaza market

Alleged Cyber Crime: EFCC's suit against Naira Marley stalled

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is prosecuting Naira Marley on charges bordering on cyber crime.

Wanted for war crimes, Putin avoids BRICS summit in South Africa, sends pre-recorded address.

Vladimir Putin has used a virtual platform to address BRICS, a coalition of emerging economies, in a move seen as a strategic manoeuvre to evade an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant that could lead to his arrest for alleged war crimes

Police planted the drugs on me - Nigerian man arrested with cocaine worth N300m in India alleges frame-up (video)

A Nigerian national, Frank Chibuzor Nandi, has alleged before an Indian court that anti-narcotics police officers planted cocaine on him during his arrest. According to reports by the Times of India, the accused was arrested by the Worli unit of the Anti-Narcotics