•Street parking Lagos rapid urban growth has outpaced the development of essential infrastructure, particularly, in residential areas. A significant oversight is the insufficient provision of parking spaces in new buildings by property owners and developers, compelling residents and tenants to park on already overburdened streets leading to do...
•Nigerian arrested in Libya Authorities in Sabha, Libya, have arrested five Nigerian nationals accused of stealing electrical equipment from a local farm. The arrests were announced by Migrant Rescue Watch via social media yesterday, Monday, May 26, 2025, reports Vanguard. According to the report, officers from the Al-Qahira Police Department ...
Electricity customers in Nigeria will now pay over N200,000 for tampering with their meters and over N300,000 in subsequent offences as the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) amends the order on Unauthorised Access, Meter Tampering and By-Pass. The order with No: NERC/REG/41/2017, which took effect from January 22, 2025 punished...
•Danny Jordaan South African Football Association (SAFA) president Danny Jordaan was arrested and charged today with using the group’s resources for his own purposes in a fraud and theft case amounting to 1.3 million rand ($72,000), police said. Jordaan, who led South Africa’s successful bid to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, denied the charges ...
•Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa Security chiefs, led by the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Christopher Musa, have harmonised their strategies toward clearing the Niger Delta of crude oil thieves, pipeline vandals and other criminal elements fleecing the country. The decision followed the directive by Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Fo...
•Oil theft Leaders and activists in the South-South region said the massive networks of the “big players”, who steal the nation’s crude oil in politics, and the oil industry have made the government, which lacked political will, powerless in halting their activities over the years. The stakeholders, speaking to our correspondents, on the backd...
•Governor Inuwa Yahaya The Gombe State Government has suspended the village head of Garin Majidadi in Akko Local Government Area, Mohammed Majidadi, over alleged theft. It also suspended the Councillor representing Kumo East Ward, Abdullahi M. Panda, reports Channels TV. Announcing this in a statement yesterday, the Secretary to the State Gove...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested two former employees of Union Bank in Makurdi, Benue State, on allegations of stealing N4,199,500 from a deceased customer’s account. The EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, disclosed this in a statement released yesterday in Abuja. The suspects, identified as Idah Ogoh and Agbo Okw...
A staff member of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has been arrested alongside five others for allegedly vandalising and stealing a transformer in Abuja. SP Josephine Adeh, spokesperson for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, announced this in a statement, yesterday. She identified the other suspects as Kabiru Muha...
•Seriake Dickson Senator Seriake Dickson representing Bayelsa West in the National Assembly has alleged that bigwigs from Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, are masterminds of the oil theft on Niger Delta soil. The lawmaker, who has been in the red chamber since 2020, was a guest on Channels Television last night. Dickson, a [&hel...
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