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Hushpuppi: AGF’s Office Exonerates Abba Kyari Of Money Laundering Allegation 
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Hushpuppi: AGF’s Office Exonerates Abba Kyari Of Money Laundering Allegation 

A new twist into the $1.1million hushpuppi internet scam involving suspended Commander of the Police Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari and fraudster, Ramon Abass aka Hushpuppi and other accomplices emerged at the weekend with the office of the Attorney General issuing new legal advice exonerating Kyari from money laundering allegations. The office of the AGF which in its first legal advice admitted that a prima- facie case of money laundering of 33 payments (proceeds of crime) was established by the DIG Joseph Egbunike led Special Investigation Panel against Kyari has now said, there are no links with Kyari following further investigations. Recall that Kyari and other defendants are currently in court on drugs and money laundering allegations at the Federal High Court A...
Kidnapper Rejects ₦200k Share Of ₦12m Ransom, Reports Injustice To Police
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Kidnapper Rejects ₦200k Share Of ₦12m Ransom, Reports Injustice To Police

A self-confessed kidnapper in Adamawa State, Sadu Bunkawu, has rejected a share of N200,000 from a ransom of N12 million and reported his fellow gang members to the police. Describing his share as a product of high level of injustice, Bunkawu said he expects the police to correct the injustice. Alleging that the other six members of the kidnapping gang conspired and gave him the N200, 000 only out of the huge N12 million they collected as ransom, the 28-year-old Bunkawu of Filingo village in the Jada Local Government Area, Adamawa State, said he could not happily collect such a share. See Also: Seven to Eight Kidnappers Arrested Are Fulanis – Sultan of Sokoto He disclosed that the N12 million ransom was paid to them when they abducted Umaru Diffiwa and Umaru Babidi of the ...
“My Health Has Deteriorated” – Abba Kyari Says As Court Refuses To Release Him
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“My Health Has Deteriorated” – Abba Kyari Says As Court Refuses To Release Him

Embattled Police Officer, Abba kyari has claimed that his health has deteriorated badly since his detention by the National Drug law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. It was gathered that Kyari, a deputy commissioner of Police, dragged the Federal Government to court seeking his release. it would be recalled that Kyari was arrested last week and handed over to the NDLEA over his involvement in Cocaine Trafficking. Kyari entered hot water after he attempted to bribe an NDLEA agent with $61,000 to facilitate the release of 17 KG of seized Cocaine. He was arrested alongside four others. See Also: IPOB, ESN Members Out To Destroy Me – Abba Kyari In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/182/22, Kyari is praying the court to compel the NDLEA to grant him bail on health grounds, pending the he...
IPOB, ESN Members Out To Destroy Me – Abba Kyari
Biafra, Corruption, Crime, Drug Abuse, Nigeria, Security

IPOB, ESN Members Out To Destroy Me – Abba Kyari

The embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, has claimed that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN) are behind his travails due to the onslaught launched against them in the South East. Kyari was said to have made this claim when he appeared before a probe panel led by Joseph Egbunike, a Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) at the Force Headquarters. His claim was contained in a report submitted by the panel to the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, which was in turn submitted to the Police Service Commission (PSC). According to the report, Kyari, who did not deny violating social media rules of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), was berated by the panel for the fact that the officer had been warne...
There’s Nothing Like Money Ritual – Police Warns Killers
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There’s Nothing Like Money Ritual – Police Warns Killers

The Nigeria Police Force has said there is nothing like money ritual, warning Nigerians to stop killing fellow human beings. Lately, the killing of humans for purported money rituals has become a trend among young Nigerians who are in a hurry to get rich. In Ogun State, no fewer than three cases of ritual killing were reported in the past two weeks. Nigerians were taken aback when 18-year-old Soliudeen Majekodunmi recounted how he, alongside his three friends, beheaded his girlfriend, Sofiat Okeowo and burnt her head in a local pot for money ritual. On Saturday, a couple, 43-year-old Kehinde Oladimeji and his wife, Adejumoke Raji, were arrested by the police for killing a girl, who was a friend to the wife at Leme area of Abeokuta. The head of the victim, they confesse...
Abba Kyari’s Brother Received ₦279m From Hushpuppi, Others
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Abba Kyari’s Brother Received ₦279m From Hushpuppi, Others

Police investigations have revealed how members of a syndicate led by an international scammer, Ramon Abass, popularly known as Hushpuppi paid N235, 120, 000 to a younger brother of a former Commander, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari. The probe also indicates that Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, equally funneled N44m to his brother’s bank account in multiple transactions. However, the investigation report obtained by our correspondent on Monday failed to disclose whether Kyari’s brother was acting as a proxy for his embattled elder brother who is currently in custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. The DCP, who was suspended by the police last July for his alleged links to Hushpuppi, allegedly attempted to sell part of the cocaine which was sei...
Arrest NDLEA Officers Who Worked With Kyari’s Accomplices, IGP Tells Marwa
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Arrest NDLEA Officers Who Worked With Kyari’s Accomplices, IGP Tells Marwa

The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has urged the Chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig-Gen Buba Marwa (retd), to immediately arrest officers of the anti-narcotic agency involved in drug crimes with accomplices of suspended cop, Abba Kyari. The police boss made this known in a statement on Monday while announcing the arrest of Kyari and four other police officers fingered by the NDLEA in drug-related crimes. Kyari, the suspended Head of the Intelligence Response Team, was earlier declared wanted by the NDLEA over alleged drug links. NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday, had chronicled how Kyari belonged to a drug cartel that operates the Brazil-Ethiopia-Nigeria illicit drug pipeline. The anti-narcotics agen...
NDLEA Declares DCP Abba Kyari Wanted Over Illicit Drug Trafficking
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NDLEA Declares DCP Abba Kyari Wanted Over Illicit Drug Trafficking

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has declared the suspended head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), DCP Abba Kyari, wanted over alleged drug offenses. The NDLEA said an investigation has revealed that Kyari is a member of a drug syndicate that operates across the globe. Source: Leadership
Crime, Safety, Security

Hoodlums Attack Aregbesola Supporters In Osun

Suspected hoodlums have attacked some supporters of the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregebsola, under the All Progressives Congress. Reports indicate that Aregbesola’s supporters were attacked on Tuesday at a political meeting in Ikirun. The Osun Progressive caucus, under the Osun APC, were said to have been holding a meeting beside the Ifelodun Local Government Council secretariat when they were attacked by the hoodlums. Reacting to the incident, state Secretary of the TOP faction of APC, Adelani Baderinwa, said the hoodlums were about 25 persons who shot into the air and threatened to use the machete on the party members. He said, “We were holding our Ifelodun/Boripe/Odo-Otin Federal Constituency meeting. These hoodlums, numbering about 25 came from inside the Local Gove...
EFCC Returns Recovered Properties To Arthur Eze In Enugu
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EFCC Returns Recovered Properties To Arthur Eze In Enugu

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu Zonal Command on Friday, January 28, 2022, returned eleven houses recovered in different parts of Enugu to Chief Arthur Eze. The properties were recovered by the EFCC from the duo of Olisaebuka Okechukwu Eze and Onyeka Nnadozie Eze, administration and finance manager respectively in Arthur Eze’s firm, accused of criminal breach of trust and diversion of funds belonging to the business mogul. Investigation established that the duo who are also nephew of Chief Eze, used proceeds of their alleged criminal activities to acquire choice properties in Enugu and other parts of South Eastern Nigeria. The Commission in the course of the investigation initiated a forfeiture proceedings against the two company officials before Justice I.M Bu...