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- 16 Dec 2016
Arase, Ex-IGP Tasks Police on Use of ICT
Mr. Solomon Arase, immediate past Inspector General of police, has said that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is desirous for effective modern day policing. The former police boss who…
- 29 Apr 2015
Terrorists Bomb Radio Station, IGP Beefs Security in Media Houses
An improvised explosive device detonated at a radio station in Kogi State Monday night killing at least four people, police said on Tuesday. Mr. Solomon Arase, acting Inspector-General of Police…
- 26 Jun 2016
Glo Gives N.5m Each to 20 Police Promo Winners
Twenty members of the Nigerian Police Force Cooperative (COOPCOM), CUG have won half a million naira each in a telecoms promo which the Force ran on the telecom data grandmaster, Globacom’s network.…
- 16 Jun 2016
Nigeria Police Launch Forensic Lab, Digital Resource
The Nigeria Police Force has set up a forensic laboratory and digital resource center in Abuja to aid the activities of its criminal Intelligence and investigation department. The facility, which…
- 17 Oct 2015
EFCC Arrests Akpabio, Former Akwa Ibom Gov over Alleged N108Bn Fraud
Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senate Minority leader and former Governor of Akwa Ibom State was yesterday, arrested and quizzed by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at…
- 27 Oct 2015
CBN, Police Worry as Fraudsters Steal N4Bn from Banks, Customers
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria Police have agreed to set up a working group that would collaborate to foil electronic frauds, after the apex bank discovered that banks and customers…
- 2 Apr 2016
Bank Customers Lose N2.25Bn to Fraudsters – CBN
Bank customers lost N2. 25billion to fraudsters last year despite a significant fall in the value of financial frauds recorded last year, acording to data from the Central Bank of Nigeria…
- 26 Jan 2016
Reps Say Contractors Cheated Nigeria in $470m CCTV Project
House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the $470m Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) contracts awarded under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed that…
- 15 Sept 2016
Blackmailer Attacks Ekeh, Zinox Boss- Ayogu
Gideon O. Ayogu, head, Corporate Communications, Zinox Group, has raised alarm over the publication of malicious article intended to smear his boss Leo Stan Ekeh, chairman, Zinox Group and his…
- 10 Sept 2017
Joseph Petitions VP Osinbajo Again Over N170m Deal with FIRS
Benjamin Joseph, managing director of an Ibadan-based firm, Citadel Oracle Concepts has again petitioned Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President, against the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC); the…
- 22 Dec 2020
Zinox Dismisses Claims of Police Indictment of Leo Stan Ekeh
The management of Zinox Technologies, Nigeria’s leading integrated Information and Communications Technology (ICT) company,has debunked allegations of Leo Stan Ekeh, its chairman, being indicted by…
- 8 Feb 2019
EFCC Clears TD Staff, Zinox of N170m Contract Scam Allegation
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), just like the Nigerian Police, has cleared Zinox Technologies Ltd., Zinox Telecoms as well as Technology Distributions Ltd. (TD) and its staff of any…
- 23 Jul 2017
Pre-Registered SIM Cards Criminal, Threat to National Security – IGP
Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, Inspector General of Police, has described the sale and use of pre-registered SIM card as a severe threat to security sector and governance. He stated this, at the one-day…
- 26 Mar 2016
CBN in Trouble for Recruiting PMB Relatives, Others
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has come under attack by some civil society leaders and lawyers who accused managment of the apex bank of secretly recruiting dozens of family members of top government…
- 3 Dec 2016
Unsolicited SMS: NCC Forum Calls for National ICT Framework for Policing
To protect telecommunications infrastructure and fight criminals using unregistered SIM cards to commit crime in the country, stakeholders at the just concluded sensitization workshop for law…
- 10 Nov 2023
CBN Orders Staff to Declare Links with Politically Exposed Persons
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed its staff members to declare their ‘close relatives’ in the employment of the bank. Premium Times reported that it sighted a memo by signed by Christian…