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Nov 8

NDLEA raises alarm over plot to flood the country with lethal synthetic opioid, fentanyl.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered plans by some unscrupulous elements to introduce a lethal synthetic opioid, Fentanyl ‘which is 100 times stronger than

Tramadol and h£roin’ into the Nigerian market.

According to a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi on Tuesday, he warned that the illicitly manufactured dr¥g is capable of causing mass casualty among the youth population being targeted by

the cartels.

The anti-narcotics agency said every step must be taken to ensure that the dr¥g, which is currently responsible for over 70% of overdose de@ths as well as a major contributor to fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the US is not allowed to circulate in Nigeria because

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Nov 8

Court sends EFCC boss to Kuje prison

An Abuja High Court sitting in Maitama has convicted the Chairman of the EFCC Abdulrasheed Bawa, for contempt of court

The EFCC chairman was convicted on Tuesday in relation to the anti-graft agency’s failure to comply with an earlier order

of the court. The court had ordered the EFCC to return to a defendant, a former Director of Operations at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), Air Vice Marshal (AVM) Rufus Adeniyi Ojuawo, his Range Rover, and N40 million

The EFCC had arraigned Ojuawo on a two-count charge before

Justice Muawiyah Baba Idris of the High Court of the FCT in Nyanya in 2016. He was accused of receiving N40 million and a Range Rover Sport (Supercharged) from one Hima Aboubakar of Societe D’Equipment Internationaux Nigeria Limited

Ojuawo, in a suit filed by his lawyer, R.N.

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Nov 8

Abuja big boy jailed for posing as a prostit¥te to defra¥d unsuspecting victims

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Command on Thursday, November 3, secured the conviction Emmanuel Adeyi before Justice I. Mohammed of the FCT High Court Gwagwalada-

Abuja on an internet related fraud charge.

The one count charge indicates that Adeyi committed the offence sometime in 2021 at Abuja when he “pretended to be a white woman named Sally, a prostit¥te who resides in the United States of America through your Reddit application, and

under the assumed character obtained the sum of $600 (Six Hundred United States Dollars) from your victims, committed the offence of che@ting by personation.” The offence is contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code Law (Cap. 89 Laws of Northern Nigeria) and punishable under

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Nov 8

Lagos police officer accosted for inappropriately to¥ching a r%bbery victim in her house

A yet-to-be identified lady has revealed her t£rrible experience in the hands of a police officer in Yaba, Lagos.

She explained that her apartment was raided by armed r%bbers and she had gone to the police station with her mom to file a report. She added that one of the police officers at the station followed them to inspect the crime scene.

“As I was showing the police man everything that had been raided in the house, he started touching me and rubbing my back. I screamed for help and my mom came to my rescue. She quickly confronted him and demanded an explanation as to why he was hara§§ing

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Nov 8

2 years after a Nigerian man was declared wanted for m¥rder in Canada, police arrest him in an expensive neighborhood in London

A Nigerian man identified as Usman Kassim, 41, who has been on Canada’s most wanted list for an alleged driveby sh@@ting in Toronto has been found in

London

It is reported that the drive-by sh@@ting happened in 2020. The police in Canada described him as a 'vi#lent, armed and d@ngerous individual who they have been on the hunt for since he fled the country more than 2 years ago

Daily Mail reports that Kassim was found in an

expensive, new tower block in Battersea, South London. The apartments, which can cost up to £1 million, are kitted out with communal facilities including a swimming pool, rooftop terrace and spa

His affluent neighbours had no idea they were living in the midst of a fugitive, The

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Nov 8

Insecurity: UK advises its citizens against visiting 22 states in Nigeria

The UK has cautioned its citizens against travelling to 22 states in Nigeria

This was contained in a press release by the British High Commission, Abuja, on Monday titled, “Updated Foreign Commonwealth

Development Office Travel Advice to British Nationals Traveling to the FCT.”

This was as it cleared the FCT from the list, though with caution. According to the high commission, the purpose of the travel update is to help its nationals make better-informed decisions about

international travel and plan for a trouble-free trip

“FCDO travel advice exists to inform British nationals so they can make decisions about travelling abroad. There continues to be a number of states in Nigeria where we advise British Nationals against all but essential travel

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