A lady who is identified as Hormowummy Ewatee narrates how the Rapid response squad arrested her sister along with some friends on their way to school.
In her statements:
The RRS arrested my kid sister and her friends who were on their way to school, resuming FUOYE today as freshers. They were arrested just because one of them was holding an IPHONE. They were drove from Ado Ekiti to Are Ekiti, threatened with gun and got extorted (#20,000) before they were freed and left in the bush to find their ways.
402 suspects arrested in three months Lekki, the fast-developing upper middle class area of Lagos Metropolis, is emerging as the new hub of internet-related fraud. Data from the investigation activities of the Lagos Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for the second quarter of 2021, indicates that Lekki District is the preferred location for all manner of cyber fraud syndicates.
Between April and June, 2021, the Advance Fee Fraud and Cyber Crime Sections of the Command recorded a total of 402 internet-related fraud arrests. While the Advance Fee Fraud Section was responsible for 243 arrests, the Cyber Crime Section executed 18 sting operations which resulted in 159 arrests, from which 13 convictions have so far been recorded.
Of the 159 suspects arrested by the Cyber Crime Section, 70 are from Lekki, comprising communities such as Ajah, Badore, Victoria Garden City, Sangotedo and Oniru. Ajah accounted for 24 suspects, while Oniru and Sangotedo had 14 and 13 suspects respectively. Badore had 8 suspects. Neighbouring Ikoyi and Eko Atlantic had 2 and one suspect each. Ikorodu and Alagbado on the Lagos Mainland make up the remainder.
The suspects are mostly millennials, with 82 of them aged between 25-34 years, which speaks to the fact that most of the individuals arrested are either still in school, recent graduates or university drop outs. Analysis of the data from the Cyber Crime Section further shows that the dominant form of internet crime is Dating Scam/Online Dating Scam/Romance Scam. Sixty Four percent (64%) of individuals arrested are involved in romance scam, followed closely by “Middle Man Scam” and “Picking” which account for 8% and 7% respectively of those arrested.
The 64% involved in the dating scam benefitted to the tune of N8, 310,000; $349,290 USD; £ 900; €10 and Cryptocurrency 0.17513. Other typologies of fraud identified include forgery, possession of fraudulent documents, spamming, credit card fraud, impersonation, rental scam, loan fraud, Business Email Compromise, Hacking, stealing, cheque scam, phishing, and money laundering.
The data also reveals gift cards, at 39%, as the prevalent method employed by the suspects to access their illicit funds. It is followed by bank transfers at 27% and Cryptocurrency at 21%. A total of $12, 512.49USD was recovered from the e-wallet accounts of four suspects within the period.
. . A graduate of the University of Uyo, simply identified as Kubiat was allegedly arrested and beaten to death by men of the Nigerian police force, (B division, Ewet Housing estate) in Akwa Ibom state.
According to one Christiana Sunday who shared the story on Facebook, the deceased student who was preparing to go for NYSC by November 2021, was arrested by the police at Eni stores at about 7 pm on Sunday, August 29, and was accused of armed robbery.
Kubiat who is said to be the only son of his aged parents was allegedly taken to the police station where he was tortured to death the same night of his arrest.
His friends who heard of his arrest were said to have gone in search of him in various police stations but were told that they had no record of such arrest. His body was eventually found at the Ikot Akpan police headquarters mortuary after his aunt put a call across to some government officials who used their affluence to ascertain his whereabouts.
The police reportedly found out they had arrested the wrong person after beating him to death and proceeded to deposit his body at the mortuary.
The school is owned by the Senior Pastor of the Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Dr Paul Enenche and his wife, Becky. Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, Abuja, have arrested a dismissed staff of the Destiny Christian Academy, Igoche Ada.
The school is owned by the Senior Pastor of the Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Dr Paul Enenche and his wife, Becky.
A source told SaharaReporters that Ada was arrested on Wednesday at his apartment inside the church building in Lugbe and taken away in handcuffs.
He was said to have sued Enenche and his wife for allegedly dismissing him illegally over “flimsy allegations.” “He has just been arrested by a team of police officers at his apartment inside the Dunamis Church, Lugbe and taken to the Force headquarters handcuffed. “He was earlier accused of flimsy allegations of molesting all the female students of Destiny Academy, a school owned by the church. So he approached the police authorities to investigate and the report exonerated him to which he sued the church before the National Industrial Court, Abuja claiming N220million.
“He presently has been detained by the CID department of the FCT Command,” a source told SaharaReporters. Ada had filed a suit at the National Industrial Court in Abuja urging the court to declare his dismissal from the school as null and void, malicious, wrongful, unconstitutional and illegal. “A Declaration that the 1st defendant acting through the 2nd defendant wrongfully and unconditionally dismissed the claimant from its employment,” the court documents read.
“A declaration that the claimant’s summary dismissal by the defendant is null and void, malicious, wrongful, unconstitutional and illegal. “A declaration that the letter of dismissal/release from service is unlawful, null and void and the employment of the claimant is still subsisting. “An order directing the defendant jointly and/or separately to pay all salaries, enolument, allowances and every other entitlements accruing to the claimant from 1st of May, 2021 to the day of judgement including interest at the rate of 25% per annum.
“The sum of N200,000,000 (Two Hundred Million Naira) being general and aggravated damages suffered as a result of the wrongful, illegal, unconstitutional dismissal/termination of Employment. “The cost of N20,000,000 (Twenty Million Naira) as the cost of litigation.”
Fighters loyal to the Islamic States of West Africa Province (ISWAP) have warned residents of Borno State against cooperating with the soldiers of the Nigerian Army.
This is as the terrorists in their latest act of propaganda took it upon themselves to storm the streets and share fliers to the residents of some areas in which the terror group observed they are not the enemies of the people.
The terrorists in the fliers told the residents that the soldiers are the ones responsible for displacing them from their villages and destroying their property.
Naija News gathered from a report monitored on Humangle that the terrorists carried out the action in parts of Borno State where they control.
The fliers titled “A message from the caliphate’s troops to the people of a new town” were reportedly shared in a place that looked like a market while another ISWAP fighter was cited giving the flier to a driver that looks like a taxi.
Some others were also posted on the walls of houses in the area. The content of the flier reads: “We were not the ones who chased you out of your place from the beginning,” one of the messages in the fliers read.
“These people who call themselves the Nigerian Army are the ones who chased you out, killed you, and are the wicked ones.” Meanwhile, gunmen Suspected to be bandit terrorists have abducted students of Kaya Junior Secondary School in Maradun LGA of Zamfara State.
It was gathered that the gunmen had broken into the secondary school on Wednesday morning. The bandits gunmen who came on motorcycles stormed the school shooting sporadically.
A teacher in the school told the BBC Hausa that he and others managed to escape by running away under the cover of farms near the school. He disclosed that the bandits stormed the school in the hours of 11 am and 12 pm.
Unknown gunmen suspected to be bandits have attacked a branch of Living Faith Church Worldwide at Osara community, along Lokoja-Okene road in Adavi Local Government Council of Kogi State.
DAILY POST gathered that the kidnappers, who invaded the church premises when some of its members were rehearsing during the weekend, abducted at least three members. The assailants were said to have stormed the area, shooting sporadically to scare away interveners before whisking the victims to an unknown destination.
The Chairman of Adavi Local Government Council, Joseph Omuya Salami, confirmed the development to newsmen on Monday evening through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Habeeb Jamiu.
Plateau house of assembly has called on residents to stand up and defend themselves against killers in the state. Plateau has recently come under a series of attacks by gunmen, who kill residents and ravage communities. WITHIN NIGERIA assembled that the assembly gave Simon Lalong, governor of Plateau, two weeks to address the security crisis ravaging the state.
Chairman of house of committee on information, Philip Dasun disclosed the resolution of the assembly during a press conference held in Jos on Friday. According to Dasun, the lawmakers made the resolution during their plenary session.
“On behalf of the Plateau State House of Assembly, I wish to sympathise with the government and people of Plateau State on the barbaric and dastardly killings that have been taking place in different communities of Bassa, Barkin Ladi, Bokkos, Jos North, Jos South, Mangu, Riyom, University of Jos community and recently that of Yelwa Zangam,” he said.
“The House condemns the killings in totality. These killings are unacceptable and condemnable. We commiserate with the families of all those who lost their loved ones during the attacks. “We strongly call on Plateau people to practically stand up and defend themselves and their communities, as the conventional security design is no longer guaranteeing our safety as a people.
“We commend the youths on the Plateau for sustained coordinated and organised campaigns against the killings and as well the courage to make it go viral by sending strong messages to the world using the dead bodies from the mayhem on the social media and the streets of Jos; the display of the corpses in the House is a sign that they recognised the authority of the House of Assembly as an institution that can speak for the people. We greatly appreciate that action.
“As an assembly with people at heart, we call on Plateau State citizens to have confidence in us with renewed commitment as we have given two weeks to the governor Simon Lalong to take action on the resolutions the House has forwarded on security matters and how to restore peace. “We call on the governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, to come up with a statement defending us as a people and to bring back renewed commitment to the cause of Plateau.
“We are still expecting with high hopes, the President to also come up with a statement about the killings in Yelwa Zangam just as he did in the killings of travellers along Rukuba road and to also indicate a sign of justice or we will see him as being reflexive about the conflict in Plateau.”
Operatives of the Kwara State Police Command rescue a kidnapped 300-level Mass Communications student of Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Khadijat Isiaq, while six suspected kidnappers were arrested.
A yet-to-be identified helicopter has reportedly shot at a local passenger boat travelling from Port Harcourt to Bonny in Rivers State.
There are fears of casualties, with some occupants severely injured and rushed to the hospital. An eye witnesses at the Bonny-Nembe waterside where the boat took off from in Port Harcourt, told newsmen that there were casualties.
While expressing shock over the incident, he said that the boat conveyed passengers and foodstuff. “The local boat that just left here to Bonny, within the Treasure Island area, a chopper or I will call it a flight helicopter, just came behind, went very low and started shooting at the wooden boat.
“From the information we got from a boat driver, there were passengers in the boat. The boat also contained foodstuff such as garri, rice and other items. “Everyone knows that is the route transporting foodstuff to Bonny. Some people died in the boat,” he claimed.
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