A cyber-security specialist, Mr. Chidiebere Ihediwa has advised the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)to devise methods of re-orientating arrested educated online fraudsters (well known as Yahoo Boys) to become information technology specialists. According to him, this strategy is better, rather than allowing them to languish in detention or undergo destructive dissolution. Ihediwa, also a renowned software developer, made the …

The Enugu State Police Command has declares one Eze Okwuchukwu wanted for his alleged involvement in an attempted kidnapping and assassination. According to the police, Okwuchukwu is wanted in connection with a case of conspiracy related to attempted kidnapping and assassination. The suspect, a 42-year-old native of Ukpo in Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State, according to the police …

The Nigeria Police Force has arrested a fake doctor, Igwe Gift Okechukwu, involved in criminal conspiracy, organ trafficking, fraud, cybercrime, stealing, impersonation, cheating, and identity theft. The arrest was made in Nasarawa State by operatives of the Force Criminal Investigation Department following the suspect’s fraudulent activities in Owerri, Imo State. The suspect, parading himself as Henry Ovie, a neurologist newly …

The former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Farouq has sought from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) an extension of the deadline to meet with commission’s interrogators over an ongoing probe into the N37,170,855,753.44 allegedly laundered during her tenure in office, through a contractor, James Okwete. Umar-Farouq cited health challenges. The PUNCH had …

A technician identified as Badmus Ola has reportedly died of electrocution in the Kajola area via Owode-Egba, Ogun State. An eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told newsmen that the incident happened around 4.45 pm on Christmas Day. It was learnt that the technician, along with five others, had been contracted to remove a billboard in the area and …

A suspected kidnapper and child trafficker, Tayo Adeleke, had confessed to the Ogun State Police Command how he and other members of his gang had been kidnapping children to sell in neighbouring Benin Republic. It was reported that Adeleke is currently in the police net, where he is being interrogated over an attempt he made with two other men, now …

Residents of Kambi community along Ilorin/Jebba Expressway in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State were on Thursday left in shock as some gunmen invaded the home of a medical practitioner, Dr David Adefikayo, killed him and kidnapped his 16-year-old daughter. It was gathered that the gunmen stormed the residence of the Medical Director of Dafikayo Clinic in Kambi around …

The Nigeria Police has charged a 23-year-old man, Saidi Musa, to a Kwara State Magistrates Court sitting in Ilorin over an alleged killing of his father, Chief Musa, the Elemosho of Shareland in Ifelodun Local Government of Kwara State. Musa will stand trial for culpable homicide before the court for allegedly macheting his father to death. He was alleged to …

Suspected bandits have abducted two policemen, a pregnant woman, a second-class traditional ruler, his family members, and other villagers at Pupule village of Yoro local government area of Taraba State. A total of 22 people were reportedly abducted in the village. In Sokoto State, bandits also struck, killing a resident and abducting six people. This brings to 28 the number …

Ikere Development Forum (IDF), a think-tank group and umbrella body for all Ikere indigenes worldwide, has strongly condemned the security breach and violent bank robbery that took place in the Ekiti State state community on Wednesday. A branch of two commercial banks were attacked in the incident that brought social and economic activities to abrupt end, leading to the death …