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A year-long investigative clampdown on criminal networks coordinated by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) has demonstrated the scale of phone and online frauds worldwide, the organisation said in a statement on Wednesday. INTERPOL said 35 countries participated in the operation dubbed “First Light” and this led to 21,549 arrests in more than 10,000 raids, as well as the seizure of almost $154 million of “illicit funds”. Most of the crimes laid at suspects’ feet included a “social engineering” element, where victims are manipulated into giving up personal information like passwords or bank details. The international organisation said it found instances of “business email compromise, romance scams and ‘smishing’,” where SMS text messages are used to try and convince targets to hand over valuable details in a variant of more typical email “phishing” attacks. The statement read, “A year-long investigative clampdown on criminal networks coordinated by INTE...

File Photo The Federal Investigation Agency on Wednesday said it had arrested a Nigerian national holding six fake passports of the United Nations in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan. According to ARY News, the Nigerian citizen had visited the Turkish embassy in Islamabad a few days back and applied for the visa on the fake UN passport and identification. File Photo During the verification process, the embassy found the documents counterfeit. Acting on the information provided by the Turkish embassy, the FIA’s anti-human trafficking wing apprehended the Nigerian citizen. The FIA, on the suspect’s identification, conducted a raid at a guest house situated in F-8 sector in Islamabad and recovered six fake UN passports and seven IDs. His accomplice, Pakistani national agent, Afzal Chaudhry was also arrested by the FIA. The FIA officials said their mobile phones had been sent for forensic analysis while they were acquiring the details of their bank accounts and assets ...

A High Court in Kenya on Wednesday ordered over N454million (KSh100 million) that was confiscated from a Nigerian national, Muazu Bala, at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to be deposited at Central Bank of Kenya. According to KenyaReport, Bala was arrested at the airport last Friday with the cash, with the Assets and Recovery Agency, suspecting it could be proceeds of crime or money laundering.  ARA had on Tuesday filed a case in court seeking orders to freeze the cash.  The money seized from Bala last Friday is in three denominations; US dollars (880,000), Euros (60,000) and Naira (63,000). “To effectively investigate the matter, DCI Transnational Organized Crime Detectives are working with the ARA. The seized cash is believed to be from International Criminal Cartels,” says the DCI. Bala was headed for Dubai.  “His failure to declare that he was carrying such a huge amount or documents to support the legitimacy of the cash, raises suspicion of mo...

The Ghanaian electoral commission on Wednesday declared incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo the winner of the country’s presidential election. The 76-year-old Akufo-Addo from the centre-right New Patriotic Party (NPP) beat his opponent and predecessor of the centre-left National Democratic Congress (NDC) with 51.59% of the vote. It is expected that this will be his second and final term in accordance with the Ghanaian constitution. More than 13 million ballots were cast out of a total electorate of 17 million and across 38,000 polling stations throughout the country. Voters also chose 275 lawmakers for the national parliament, AFP reports. Five people were killed in election violence. Otherwise, Ghana’s poll on Monday was carried out mostly peacefully — a regular achievement for the West African country unlike for some of its neighbours that had seen violence following recent elections — although accusations of fraud mired the process before the official results were released...

No fewer than five persons in Emede community, Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State have been reportedly killed while over ten houses have been set ablaze by armed youths of Igbide community following a land dispute between the two communities. SaharaReporters learned that the crisis, which started Tuesday and continued Wednesday, has claimed five lives at Emede community while houses and properties worth millions of naira have been razed down by the Igbide armed youths. SaharaReporters Media The age-long boundary dispute between the two communities had in 1986 to 1987 caused the death of over a hundred people, including houses that had been destroyed. Speaking with SaharaReporters, an indigene of Emede community who identified himself as Kome and witnessed the Tuesday and Wednesday bloody crisis, said that the fight started from the bush where farmers were attacked by armed youths from the neighbouring Igbide community. “At the bush, the armed Igbide youths kil...

File Photo The Ondo State Security Network Agency,   Amotekun, on Wednesday said some herdsmen attacked its operatives on a farm at Osi Community, in Akure North Local Government Area of the state,  while the operatives were trying to settle a rift between them and the farmers in the community. The operatives of the agency were said to have moved to the community, following a distress call from the farmers that cows had destroyed their farms in the area. File Photo Google The state Commander of Amotekun,  Chief Adetunji Adeleye, who disclosed this to journalists in Akure, the state capital,  however, said one of the herdsmen was arrested with dangerous weapons while the operatives seized 16 cows. He stated, “Some farmers from Osi  Community ran to the office complaining that herds had destroyed their farms.  We sent our men there to assess the situation. They found out that the herds were actually on the farm and we invited the herdsmen. But unf...

File Photo No fewer than twenty (20) people, all of them males, including a village head, Malam Falalu Galadima, have been kidnapped in Katsina State by suspected bandits. According to HumAngle, the villages- Gamji, Ungwar Mato and another all in Faskari Local Government were attacked by the gunmen who operated for about three hours on Tuesday. File Photo The bandits, it was gathered, trekked down to the Gamji village, unlike their previous attacks in which they came on motorbikes. One of the villagers, who did not want to be named for his safety, said he escaped into the bush when the gang came. He told the newspaper that the bandits stormed the village around 10 pm on Tuesday and opened fire on the residents, kidnapped the village head and 25 others. “No one can tell exactly the number of the people they abducted; we all know that they abducted the village Head and many others,” he said. “We checked from house-to-house this morning and found out that 25 of our ...

The Nigerian Navy has declared 43 of its personnel wanted for desertion. The officers were declared as deserters bound to face dire consequences if found. The Navy authorities disclosed this in a circular which had the names and photographs of the deserters displayed at its headquarters in Abuja. The officers were said to have fled while serving on Naval Vessels and ships on foreign missions to different European countries. The circular read, “Above are the Nigerian Navy Personnel who have deserted from Service recently. Accordingly, you are please requested to assist in providing useful information that will lead to their arrest, or you may apprehend any one of them when seen and handover to the nearest Nigerian Navy base or security station”. Some of the deserted Officers include L.O Chiegboka (SVC NN/3764. Ship: NOP Lake Chad), O.S. Itodo (SVC 5872F. Ship: NNH Warri), Anthony E.S. (SVC 18870. Ship: NNS Delta), Yusuf A. (SVC X15018. Ship: NNS Partfinder) Brown I.E (SVC X1...

Two brothers, John Jinapor and Abu Jinapor, have won Ghana’s parliamentary seats in the just concluded general elections. The two brothers, who contested under different political parties, won their constituencies. John Jinapor, the older brother, vied for Yapei-Kusawgu constituency seat of the Savannah Region under the platform of the opposition party, National Democratic Congress. His younger brother, Abu Jinapor, just secured the Damango seat in the West Gonja District also of the Savannah Region after defeating an experienced lawmaker, Adam Mutawakilu, in a closely contested election. John Jinapor was the deputy minister of Power under the previous National Democratic Congress government and had earlier served as a spokesperson to former President John Mahama. The younger Jinapor, a legal luminary polled 15,671 votes to defeat the incumbent National Democratic Congress Member of Parliament, Adam Mutawakilu who garnered 13,330 votes while an independent candidate David T...

A local government worker in Benue State, Aondona Yaga, has burned himself to death over unpaid allowances of three years and his inability to pay his enormous debt, according to sources. Yaga was until his death, a casual staff member at the Gwer Local Government secretariat in Aliade, a local media in the state confirmed. According to his grandmother, the young man had been facing problems because he was not paid his allowance for almost three years. He eventually fell sick and could not find money to treat himself. Frustrated, he decided to end his life. On Wednesday morning, he entered his thatched room and set it on fire. Another source added that the deceased had consistently complained to friends about the non-payment of his accumulated salary arrears. He was said to have attributed his inability to pay his debts and perform his financial obligation for the upkeep of his family on the non-payment of his salary. News AddThis :  Original Author :  Sahar...

A 19-year-old girl, Jemila Ibraheem, was on Wednesday remanded in police custody in Lagos State, for the alleged murder of her ex-lover’s girlfriend. The teenager, who is an upcoming actress and resides in the Satellite Town area of Lagos, was charged with one count of murder. The court, however, did not take her plea. The Magistrate, P.E. Nwaka ordered that the defendant be kept at the Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, pending advice from the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions. Nwaka adjourned the case until January 4, 2021, for mention. Earlier, the prosecutor, ASP Thomas Nurudeen, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on November 18 at Ekoba Street in Monkey Village, Satelite Town, Lagos. According to him, the defendant went to her ex-lover’s house and saw that the deceased, who was the new girlfriend and had stayed overnight. Nurudeen told the court that in a fit of rage, the defendant poured fuel all over the house and use...

Armed men in military uniform have kidnapped two teachers at Ohorhe Secondary School, Uvwie Local Government of Delta State as insecurity worsens across the state. A teacher in the school, who spoke to SaharaReporters on condition of anonymity on Tuesday, said the unidentified armed men in military uniform arrived at the school’s premises in a Toyota Highlander. “We were all in the school when we saw three armed men, including the driver, making them four, dressed in military uniform. The Highlander jeep they came with was parked in the premises for some minutes when three of them came and walked straight into the staff room and abducted two of our staff and zoomed off,” the teacher said. “At this point, we were ordered not to shout, or else we die, and everybody including students were thrown into panic,” she added. The abduction has caused panic in the community. SaharaReporters learned the school’s authority had mistaken the four kidnappers for military men because of th...

The meeting of the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities slated to hold today has been postponed till further notice. ASUU President, Prof. Abiodun Ogunyemi, disclosed this on Wednesday, saying the failure of the meeting was due to the short time frame given to consult the union members. The battle between the Nigerian government and the varsity teachers, who had boycotted classrooms for almost a year, lingers as both parties fail to find common ground. The union members are demanding improved conditions of work which the government has not been able to meet, a situation which has presently confined students to their houses.  The new President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Sunday Asefon, on Wednesday vowed to shut down all private universities in the country should the nine-month strike embarked on by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities continue. Asefon lamented that the ongoing strike is the most prolonged i...

Sunday Asefon The new President of the National Association of Nigerian Students, Sunday Asefon, has vowed to shut down all private universities in the country should the nine-month strike embarked on by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities continue. The NANS president said this while speaking on a PUNCH Online interview programme, The Roundtable, monitored by SaharaReporters on Wednesday. Sunday Asefon He lamented that the ongoing strike is the most prolonged industrial action embarked on by the university lecturers. According to him, NANS would engage the Federal Government representatives and ASUU leaders to find a lasting solution to resolve the stalemate in negotiations between the two arms. The NANS president said after consultation with the two parties and should the strike not be called off as soon as possible, NANS would move in and shut down all tertiary institutions in the country. See Also #EndSARS 45-year-old New NANS President, Asefon, Kick...