Tag: extortion
How Boko Haram gets financed: Fake Charities, Drug Cartels, Ransom and Extortion
Just over a year ago, armed men on motorcycles entered a national park in Cameroon, near the Nigerian border, and…
Lagos Bans Illegal LG Taskforce
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has banned all local governments from setting up illegal environmental and traffic taskforce that…
4 Fake Ogun Taskforce Officials Arrested
Yusuf Muhammed & Pius Fagbohun Four men who claimed to be working for the Ado Odo-Ota Local Government Council of…
Lagos chief, 2 others arrested for extortion
Kazeem Ugbodaga A Lagos chief, a 71-year old man and another alleged accomplice have been arrested for alleged extortion over…
Extortion: 4 LG Officials Arrested
Four staff of Ikosi-Isheri Local Council Development Area, LCDA, have been arrested for allegedly extorting money from motorists under the…
Fake LASTMA Man Goes To Jail
A fake officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, has been remanded in Kirikiri Prison, Lagos, southwest Nigeria…
Fake EFCC operative jailed
A man who had paraded himself as an operative of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC, has been sentenced to…
Extortion: Court Remands Ex-Cop
An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered a former policeman to be remanded in prison custody for allegedly extorting money…
6 Fake LASTMA Officials Arrested
Six fake officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, have been arrested by the Lagos State Taskforce on…
Is Police Truly Your Friend?
The catch phrase, “Police Is Your Friend” has proved to be an abhorrent paradox against the character deficit of the…
X-Squad Arrests 2 Police Officers For Extortion
The Federal X-Squad, Force Criminal Investigation Department, CID, Alagbon, Ikoyi,Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has arrested two police officers for alleged extortion…
Monarch Petitions Police IG Over Alleged Extortion
The traditional ruler of Cardoso town in Ayobo Ipaja Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, High Chief…
Okada Riders Decry Extortion
Commercial motorcycle operators, also known as okada riders in FESTAC Town have cried out over extortion by policemen attached to…
Alaba Suru Traders Protest Threat of Market Closure
Traders of Suru-Alaba Market, located along Lagos-Badagry Express way, recently stormed Alausa, Lagos State’s seat of power to protest against…
Nigeria Customs Dismantles Job Syndicate
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has dismantled a cyber-crime syndicate which allegedly extorted millions of naira from job seekers through…
Fake Cop Held For Extortion
A man, Abba Gana, 43, alleged to be parading himself as police officer and extorting money from motorcyclists and commuter…
Shun Extortion, ACP Advises Young Police Officers
Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP, Agba Nchor, has called on young and upcoming police officers to shun money and…
Reps To Probe Extortion Of Money From Job Seekers
The House of Representatives has directed its Joint Committee on Employment, Labour and Productivity, Anti-corruption, National Ethics and Values and…
Corruption scandal at Nigeria Ports
NIGERIA – Once again one senses that internal squabbles for power are more important than service to the customer as…
Bus Drivers Cry Out Over Extortion By LASTMA
Commuter bus drivers plying Oshodi-Apapa Expressway today cried out over extortion by an official of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority,…
‘Don’t Pay Revenue To Council Staff’
As parts of measures to stem corruption and extortion by council officials under the pretext of revenue collection, residents of…
Lagos Sacks 90 KAI Officers Over Stealing, Extortion
The Lagos State Government has sacked at least 90 officials of the Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, brigade over cases of…
Two Ex-LASG Staff Arrested For Extortion
Two former staff of the Lagos State Government have been arrested by the police in Lagos, South West Nigeria for…