by Admin | May 30, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Traffickers are increasingly swallowing condoms filled with liquid cocaine to cheat traditional detection methods, Interpol said Tuesday as it pointed to West African and Asian gangs driving the Asia-Pacific narcotics trade. Interpol’s Singapore office, which said methamphetamine remains the region’s most trafficked substance, highlighted the rising trend in a report on an international anti-drug operation in May. The campaign, called Operation Lionfish – ASEAN, involved more than 2,000 police and customs officials in 14 countries, said a statement from the Interpol Global Complex in Singapore which coordinated it. It focused on drug trafficking through airports while a second phase will target land and sea borders. The operation “revealed a network of West African and Asian organised crime groups behind trafficking in methamphetamine — one of the most smuggled drugs in the region,” the statement said. Of 59 seizures during the two-week period, nearly a quarter of the drugs confiscated was methamphetamine, of which nearly 80 percent was in crystalline form known as “ice”. Cocaine, cannabis, heroin and amphetamine stimulants were also among the drugs seized, it said, adding that smugglers were becoming more innovative. Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have identified a rising trend of liquid cocaine being trafficked, Interpol said. “Smugglers would swallow condoms packed with liquid cocaine,” it said, adding that this type of concealment is harder to detect using traditional methods like X-rays. Interpol said it identified a “cocaine trafficking route via Ethiopia to destinations in the Middle East, Asia and Pacific”. source: the...
by Admin | May 30, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI ABUJA—THE Senate, yesterday, said Nigeria has lost about $450 million to 3,500 cyber attacks on its Information and Communication Technology, ICT, space. According to the Senate, this represents over 70 per cent of hacking attempts on technology in the country. Against this backdrop, the Senate asked the National Security Adviser, NSA,Major-General Mohammed Babagana Monguno (retd), to, as a matter of urgency, alert all security agencies and financial institutions in the country about the current and threatening dimensions of cyber attacks. The Senate also asked its Committee on ICT and Cybercrime to immediately convoke a national stakeholders’ conference on cyber security that would help stimulate what it described as a collective reflection among relevant stakeholders and articulate a national and broad-based approach to keep the country ahead of the challenges. The Senate, which noted that the figures were arrived at by revelations from studies, expressed concern that government servers were currently under serious threat. The upper chamber, however, lamented that the ICT shortfall in Nigeria was enormous, while its cyberspace had become very porous, adding that the system lacked a well-structured and effective approach to cyber-crime control, according to the oversight findings of the Senate Committee on ICT and Cybercrime. Yesterday’s resolutions of the Senate were sequel to a motion by Senator Abdulfatai Buhari (APC Oyo North), entitled: “Worrisome dimension of cyber-crime and insecurity, urgent need for concerted efforts to secure Nigeria’s cyberspace.” Get ready to fight cyber war— Ekweremadu Meanwhile, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who presided over yesterday’s plenary, however, called for concerted efforts at confronting the cyber war currently threatening the world. Ekweremadu noted that...
by Admin | May 30, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Bayelsa State Command, has solicited the cooperation of residents and relevant stakeholders to rid the state of narcotics abuse and illicit drug trade. A statement on Monday by the agency’s Principal Staff Officer, Public Affairs, Mr. Osakwe Ikenna, a superintendent of narcotics, said for the war on drug trafficking to be won, there was the need for stakeholders’ synergy. The agency also solicited the support of stakeholders and members of the public in terms of volunteering information, saying the agency was moving from reactive to a proactive organisation. The statement said, ”The State Commander hereby wishes to solicit for the cooperation and partnership of the good people and residents of Bayelsa State in fighting the war against the illicit drug trade and abuse. ”With such concerted efforts, the fight against narcotics abuse and other problems associated with hard drugs will be reduced drastically. It will also engender a peaceful, progressive and drug-free state.” The appeal for partnership came just as a new State Commander, NDLEA, Mr. Abdullahi Abdul, has taken over the mantle of leadership of the command. Abdul, who resumed duty recently, took over from Mrs. Josephine Obi, who has been redeployed to Jigawa State as its commander. Prior to his resumption in the state, Abdul was the immediate past Commander of Jigawa State Command of the agency. Meanwhile, the agency has appealed to parents and guardians to warn their children and wards to desist from drugs. It said, ”Drug has negative effects on the individuals. So, talk to your neighbours and friends to shun the use of narcotic drugs...
by Admin | May 30, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday arraigned a 50 year old man, Ahmed Echodo, for allegedly misleading the police force, to conduct a raid at a residense belonging to the deputy Senate president, Ike Ekeremadu, on Friday. According to the one-count charge, two defendants were accused of the offense, though only Mr. Echodo was arraigned at a magistrate court in Abuja. Security operatives had ransacked Mr. Ekweremadu’s residense on Friday morning in search of evidense, following information indicting occupants in the residense of criminal offences, but found nothing. PREMIUM TIMES had reported that security officers at residense located in Ganges street Maitama Abuja, told this paper that the raid was conducted by Police officers, under the instruction of the Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Idris. Although that information was denied by the force public relations officer, Moshood Jimoh; the force on Tuesday charged two men on a one-count for misleading the Nigeria Police. According to the charge, the men; Mr. Echodo and Maiwada Adamu are accused of conspiring to falsely inform the office of the IGP that Mr. Ekweremadu’s residense at number 10 Ganges Street, Maitama, Abuja, and occupied by Oliver Ogenyi is been maintained and used for criminal activities such as rhe maintance of arms and ammunitions. The second accused Mr. Adamu was not in court while the first defendant pleaded not guilty to th charge. The prosecution counsel, Ismail Tawo, informed the court that Mr. Adamu was at large. The Magistrate, Umar Kagarko, asked the police to find Mr. Adamu and present him in court at the next sitting. Counsel to the defense, Peter Ngwoke...
by Admin | May 30, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI In the wake of the alleged N1 billion ransom demanded by abductors of six students from Igbonla Model School, near Epe, Lagos, the Lagos State Police Command has said it would “not negotiate with the kidnappers.” The police spokesperson, Olarinde Famous-Cole, said on Monday that “it is the statutory responsibility of the police to keep the children safe, which is paramount and that’s what we are concerned about.” The Punch newspaper had reported that parents of the children were contacted on Saturday and allowed to briefly speak with their children. They also stated that while two of the parents were asked to pay N400 million each, another two were told to raise N100 million per child. The parents were reportedly told to meet with the school authorities and the state government to raise the money. “Since we are all a party to the incident that happened, we are playing our roles as security agents to get those kids out of the hands of those militants,” said Mr. Famous-Cole. “We are certainly liaising with the school and the government and the parents as regards some of the things we can share with them as per security intelligence.” “The kids are safe, but we are just trying to get them out and that’s what important,” the police spokesperson said. The students were abducted at around 5 a.m. last Thursday by gunmen who arrived through a creek behind the school. The hoodlums broke through the school’s fence to gain access into the premises. The incident occurred seven months after gunmen kidnapped two teachers and four pupils of the same school....
by Admin | May 30, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI A mother who fled conflict and admitted killing three of her children and attempting to murder a fourth by driving her car into a lake was jailed for 26 years in Australia on Tuesday. Akon Guode, who came to Australia after fleeing civil war in South Sudan, plunged the vehicle into the lake on the outskirts of Melbourne in 2015, killing one-year-old son Bol and four-year-old twins Hanger and Madit. Rescuers pulled her and five-year-old daughter Alual from the sinking vehicle. In handing down his sentence, Justice Lex Lasry said the 37-year-old suffered from post traumatic stress syndrome but why she had driven into the lake remained a “tragic mystery”. “The sentence I’m about to impose is in some respects inadequate to reflect the gravity of what you’ve done, yet at the same time excessive given your mental state and your background of hardship and desperation,” he said. Nonetheless “these are obviously grave offences”, Lasry added. “These children trusted you as their mother as they were entitled to do. Your betrayal of that trust had catastrophic consequences whatever the true reasons were for your consequences.” The defence told the court Guode suffered severe psychological trauma from the civil war. Witnesses said before the tragedy Guode had complained of receiving threats from the estranged wife of the children’s father — with whom she had been having a long affair — and had isolated herself from the Sudanese community. The mother-of-seven’s eldest daughter had previously told the court she was concerned about Guode’s driving as she had been experiencing dizzy spells for six months leading up to the deaths....
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