Boki communities: Nigeria’s tourist haven devoured by mudslide
The people of Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State are believed to inhabit a landmass whose topography could aptly be described as the most difficult in country.
View ArticleDay of reckoning for Black Sunday Lagos robbers
It was celebration galore for officers and men of the Lagos State Police Command made a major breakthrough with the arrest of three member s of the armed gang which not only held Lagos metropolis and...
View ArticleEmployment scammers on the prowl
By Wisdom Patrick, Senior Correspondent, Lagos Cashing in on the crippling unemployment in the land, job scammers have been on the prowl, making job offers to desperate applicants at varying sums....
View ArticleSFU: Enhancing war against fraud
By Andrew Utulu, Correspondent, Lagos The Police Special Fraud Unit, located at Sunday Adewusi House, Milverton Street, Ikoyi, Lagos has been known to be full of activities. This has been the case...
View ArticleSustaining Customs anti-smuggling agenda
By Andrew Utulu, CORREPONDENT, Lagos Not much had been heard lately on the activities at the Tincan Island Port of the Nigeria Customs Service since Comptroller Tunji Aremu took over as the area...
View ArticleTowards tackling pipeline vandalism
By Blessing Adewole/Abuja Since the discovery in commercial quantity in 1956, petroleum products have played vital role in Nigeria’s economy, supplying up to 90 per cent of the country’s gross...
View ArticleWhat is SON doing on substandard goods in our markets?
I would be grateful if the Independent Advocate could please prevail once more on the Standard Organizations of Nigeria (SON) on why it has kept mum all these while thereby enabling many sub-standard...
View ArticleHow we kidnapped Okonjo-Iweala’s mother – Suspects
When in the afternoon of Sunday, December 11, 2013, kidnappers struck in the ancient town of Ogwashi-Uku, the headquarters of Aniocha South Local Government area of Delta State, taking away Prof....
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Confessions of Iju-Ishaga robbery gang
By Andrew Utulu - Lagos. Some of the suspects confessing For sometime now, the gang had been terrorising the residents of Iju-Ishaga and environs in Ifaka Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State....
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The world of suspected female robbers in Lagos
By Emmanuel Udom – Special Correspondent, Lagos Chioma and members of her gang In many places, the crime world was dominated by men. Such crimes like armed robbery, assassination, murder, fraud,...
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How car burglar became finance secretary of his town’s union
By Andrew Utulu Correspondent, Lagos The duo had operated with impunity in Lagos State with other members of their gang. They used numerous modus operandi and even pose as local chiefs and royal...
View ArticlePolice, SSS on trail of fake job syndicates in Nigeria
By Emmanuel Udom - Senior Correspondent, Lagos Operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) and police detectives are presently on the trail of a fake job recruitment syndicate, who for sometime...
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Lamentations of ejected police widows
By Andrew Utulu / Correspondent, Lagos More than three weeks after some widows living in Mobile Police Unit 20 barracks commanded by Olubode Ojajuni, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) and one-time...
View ArticleRetired intelligence officer cries out for justice over property
By Emmanuel Udom / Senior Correspondent, Lagos on June 2011, Mrs. Carolyn Nleme, then a senior intelligence officer, was compulsory retired from the service of the Defence Intelligence Agency. Sources...
View ArticleGod told me to impregnate my church members –Pastor
By Emmanuel Udom / Senior Correspondent, Lagos The police in Enugu on Friday said that Timothy Ngwu, a self-acclaimed pastor and founder of Vineyard Ministry of the Holy Trinity claimed that God told...
View ArticleArmed robber caught in Our Daily Manna office
Our Daily Manna (ODM), the leading Christian daily devotional, which is a household name in Nigeria was attacked again by an armed robber. ODM office situated in Ogudu area of Lagos State was invaded...
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Confession of human parts dealers
By Andrew Utulu / Correspondent, Lagos The gang comprises a herbal man at Ilepo near Abulegba, Lagos Kunle Oyebamaji who also sells herbs at Oja-Oba market in Abule-EGBA Afolabi, Oyebamiji, Abbas and...
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How I conspired with my boyfriend to rob my boss – Housemaid
By Andrew Utulu / Lagos A female suspect, Mary Paul, aka Blessing, a housemaid, has confessed to how she conspired with her boyfriend, Victor Egberem, to rob her employer, Prof. Abiodun Oluwole. Mary...
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Trado-medical nurses, human parts dealer nabbed over sale of day-old dead baby
By Andrew Utulu / Lagos For some time now, the arrest of human parts dealers, buyers and ritualists have formed a major chunk of achievements of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Lagos...
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I knew nothing about the attack – Mabel’s hubby
There are two sides to a coin and it is always good to hear from two people in a story. In line with that, efforts were made to reach the alleged suspect behind the attack, Mabels husband, but he...
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