The Katsina State Government has on Tuesday announced that it will lift the ban on telecommunication services in the remaining seven affected Local Government Areas (LGAs) before January 2022. Governor Aminu Bello Masari made the disclosure while addressing journalists in Katsina, assuring residents that the government will protect them against Banditry. Recall that the Katsina State Government recently lifted the telecom ban on 10 out of 17 LGAs that suffered from banditry.

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted 64,000 pump action gun cartridges and a new pump action gun at a store located at Success Line, marine modern market, Onitsha, Akwa North Local Government Area of Anambra State. The discovery, which led to the arrest of an arms dealer, Donatus Onyemachi Igwebudu 34 years, followed credible intelligence on drugs and arms deals in the location. Supported by the Nigerian Army, NDLEA operatives stormed the store on Wednesday and moved the arms and ammunition to the NDLEA’s office in Akwa, the state capital. NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, who confirmed the incident on Friday revealed that the agency also intercepted 34 children being trafficked from Ijebu-Ode in Ogun to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. “The minors packed in two commercial buses, Toyota Sienna and a 12-seater Mazda with registration numbers Lagos LND124FV and Oyo BDJ-683YK respectively, were recovered in the early hours of Thursday, 16th December from the human trafficking syndicate,” Babafemi said.

Obinwanne Okeke, popularly known was Invictus Obi, will be released from an American prison in September 2028. The United States Federal Bureau of Prisons disclosed this via a statement on its website. Mr. Okeke is being held at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI), Oakdale. FCI, Oakdale located in Allen, Western Louisiana is a low security federal correctional institution with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp. It has a population of 1,083 male inmates. It is an all-male inmates facility, with 997 inmates in the FCI and 86 at the camp. He was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison earlier in the year after he was linked to a computer-based intrusion fraud scheme that resulted in approximately $11 million in known losses to his victims. On September 9, 2019, he was charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit computer fraud.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja has announced the arrest of members of a criminal syndicate that specializes in producing counterfeit foreign currency for sale to members of the public. This was disclosed on Tuesday in a statement by the spokesperson of EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren who stated that it was a joint operation with personnel of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

The Lagos state commissioner of police Hakeem Odumosu, has confirmed on Tuesday that three students of Dowen College, Lekki are currently being investigated over the death of Sylvester Oromoni Junior, a 12-year-old student of the college. The CP said, “One student was invited and two arrested; they are three, so one is assisting us. We just started the investigation. We have two in detention, while the other one is just a witness to throw some light on what happened. “We are discussing with the family on autopsy; we can’t do autopsy without the family we can’t do autopsy without the school authority representative too. We need to be fair to everybody, so there is an arrangement to carry out autopsy with every stakeholder in attendance.”

Some seasonal migrants have been burnt to death at Gidan Bawa village, Sabon Birno Local Govt Area in Sokoto state. The passengers were said to be on transit to Gadan Gayan in Kaduna state en-route to the southern part of the country in search of greener pasture. The commercial bus hired by the said passengers run into an ambush of terrorist bandits who opened fire on them, setting the bus on fire, killing all the passengers. The incident happened at Teke village in Gidan Bawa District around 10 am on Monday morning.