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American federal agents helped grab nine suspected cybercriminals across Nigeria in a coordinated cross-border raid code-named Operation Blackout on Monday. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation worked alongside local security teams to seize 53 electronic devices used to strip ordinary Americans of their life savings. Distance no longer shields online fraud rings. FBI Director…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency intercepted thirty-six kilograms of cocaine and a nine-kilogram batch of American cannabis during separate interdiction operations at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Drug cartels recruit unexpected couriers to slip illicit parcels past airport scanners. Femi Babafemi, spokesman for the anti-narcotics agency, confirmed on Sunday that…
Justice Emeka Orafu of the Imo State High Court opened the hearing on Thursday, 22 October 2026, in the trial of five men who abducted twenty prospective National Youth Service Corps members along the Owerri-Onitsha Expressway. The criminal gang ambushed two commercial buses carrying the university graduates near Umunoha in the Mbaitoli district on 1…
The Nigeria Police Force has filed cybercrime charges against the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Prof. Joshua Ogunwole, three weeks after staff and students blocked an attempt by officers to arrest him at his official residence. Ogunwole is charged alongside Mufutau Ibrahim and Tajudeen Opoola before the Federal High Court in Lagos. The…
The Nigerian Navy intercepted more than 2.25 million litres of stolen crude and illegally refined fuels across the Niger Delta between July and September 2026. Naval spokesman Captain Abiodun Folorunsho told reporters in Abuja on Wednesday, 14 October, that sailors also deactivated 88 illicit cooking camps, 363 dugout storage pits, and 80 metal reservoirs under…
A Nevada judge sentenced former street gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis to forty years to life in prison on Tuesday, 13 October, closing the legal book on the 1996 drive-by murder of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur. Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny handed down the term in Las Vegas after a jury found…
The Nigeria Customs Service intercepted two forty-foot containers carrying illicit drugs worth ₦3.67bn at the Tin Can Island Port in Lagos on Friday, 9 October. Port command spokesman Oscar Ivara confirmed that officers seized over 1.2 tonnes of narcotics during joint physical examinations with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. Smugglers now disguise synthetic narcotics…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to throw out an attempt by former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke to rely on her London acquittal in her fight to recover forfeited assets. In a further counter-affidavit before Justice Inyang Ekwo, the commission argued that the acquittal by the Southwark…
Nigeria Customs Service officers at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport arrested a male traveller named Adam Musa Adam after discovering 265,000 dollars in undeclared physical greenbacks hidden inside his luggage . The passenger landed in Kano aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight from New Delhi before border inspectors uncovered the hidden foreign currency during routine arrival…
Four members of a kidnapping syndicate have been sentenced to death by the Edo State Special Criminal Court in Benin City, in the first judgment delivered by the court since it was set up earlier this year. Justice Aigbona Terry Momodu passed the sentences on Tuesday, 29 September 2026, after finding the four guilty…