Crime

The Executive Director of the Youth Society for Prevention of Infectious Disease and Social Vices (YOSPIS), Zainab Nasir Ahmad, has stressed that education remains the most effective tool for addressing social vices and insecurity among…
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By Stephen Enoch At just 14, Ahmed Umar* knew the streets of Brigade better than he knew a classroom. From Yan Doya to Yan Gwan Gwan, he knew many other locations known for social vices like phone snatching, theft, drug abuse, and…
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A growing wave of drug abuse among youth in Kano State is contributing to violent clashes, street crime, and social instability, a criminologist, Abdulmalik Shu’aibu, popularly known as Manash, has said. Shu’aibu made this known during…
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The Kano State Police Command has reported a significant decline in criminal activities across the state in the first quarter of 2026, attributing the development to renewed policing strategies, intelligence-led operations, and stronger…
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The Police in Lagos State have arrested a middle-aged woman, Cynthia Aigbondon, for allegedly stabbing her neighbour to death. The development was confirmed to newsmen by the command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin…
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A former Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Douglas Ogbankwa, said that administrators of WhatsApp groups could be held responsible for violating the Cyber Act 2015 caused by members. Ogbankwa disclosed this in…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday secured the conviction of one Daniel Uche Orji before Justice A.M Liman of Federal High Court sitting in Kano on one count amended charge of retention of proceeds of crime.…
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The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) says it is against ethnic profiling of crime and criminality in the country. The NGF Chairman, Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, gave this indication when he briefed State House correspondents after an…
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The Nigerian Ambassador to Morocco Baba Garba says there are 195 Nigerians in prisons in Morocco for drug related crimes Baba Garba told NAN in Rabat, Morocco, that the government was yet to have a prisoner transfer agreement with Morocco.
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