The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is probing 10 senior officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) over an alleged N7.5 billion fraud. The anti-graft agency has also invited 10 contractors linked with the alleged fraud. The EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, had on 26 April 2024, written a letter to the NSCDC CG, inviting the 10 …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested six senior officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) over alleged N6 billion fraud. The senior officers are currently being grilled by EFCC interrogators at the commission’s headquarters, Jabi, Abuja, according to The PUNCH. Though details of the probe are still sketchy, it was gathered that the NSCDC …

No fewer than ten persons, including a volunteer with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), lost their lives in their bid to collect some food items in Sokoto. The unfortunate incident is said to have aimed the life of one Fatima Bala, a volunteer operative with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, and nine other persons during …

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad has uncovered a massive illegal oil refining site in a forest in the Odagwa community of the Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State. According to the NSCDC, the site has 10 illegal refineries with an estimated 500, 000 litres of crude oil contained in about 50 …

The Anambra State Command of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has reunited a 13-year-old boy, Goodluck Onwe, with his family after he went missing in Ebonyi State. The teenager was said to have been seen wandering on the streets of Abakaliki in Ebonyi State before he was rescued on 4 February 2024, at about 1 pm by the …

Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, has called on the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to scale up the fight against illegal bunkering, oil theft as well as protect critical national assets in the state. He urged the corps to continue to support the military and the police to tackle such acts of economic sabotage, even as he …

The operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Anambra State Command on Monday, embarked on a “rigorous” show of force, massive deployment and area dominance in and around various flashpoints across the state. The state commandant of the NSCDC, Olatunde Maku, said during the exercise that the objective is to protect the lives and property of residents. …

The Commandant General (CG) of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ahmed Audi, launched the Safe School Response Team to protect schools from all forms of attacks in the North-Central region of the country. While speaking in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital at a one-day sensitisation workshop for strategic stakeholders in the geo-political zone on the activities of …

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has launched a new unit – the VIPs Protection Unit. The unit would be responsible for the protection of individuals who are exposed to threats as a result of their status. The first batch of 501 personnel, who have been trained to carry out the new responsibilities, passed out in a ceremony …

Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has told officers and men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and their counterparts in the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Correctional and the Federal Fire Service (FFS) to upgrade themselves academically because they will no longer be elevated just for passing promotion examinations. Tunji Ojo, who advised personnel of all the …