OVER 25 MILLION PHONES STOLEN IN ONE YEAR- FG. (PHOTO).
Over 25 million phones stolen in one year – FG The Crime Experience and Security Perception Survey report of the National Bureau of Statistics, a Federal Government agency, shows that Nigeria recorded 25.35 million phone theft cases between May 2023 and April 2024. According to the report, this was the most common type of crime within the period under review. The report read, “The number of crimes experienced by individuals in Nigeria was analysed over a period of time. The results show that theft of phones (25,354,417) was the most common crime experienced by individuals, followed by consumer fraud (12,107,210) and assault (8,453,258). However, hijacking of cars (333,349) was the least crime experienced by individuals within the reference period.” It also noted that most phone theft cases occurred either at home or in a public place, and about 90 per cent of such cases were reported to the police. Despite the high rate of the incident being reported, only about 11.7 per cent of t...
45 Years old Hajara Egbara,a female staff of the Federal capital development Authority,Abuja was arrested for allegedly obtaining the sum of N25million under false pretence.DSP Ngozi,said the suspect was arrested following a written complaint by a female victim to the Commissioner of police,CP Tunde Ogunsakin,that the suspect sold a plot of land to her within Asokoro extension,Abuja,in 2009 for the sum of N25million.The victim alleged that she paid the money in three installments.She said she paid N10million each for the first two instalments and the suspect issued receipts with invoice Number 0073 and 0201 to her as proofs of purchase respectively,while the last payment of N5,million was made in 2012 through an old generation bank cheque number 0179593.The petitioner stated that she discovered that she had been duped by the suspect.When she was trying to process the documents of the land.When she confrounted the suspect,the suspect took her to another land as compensation and she use about N450,000 to fence off the new land.The petitioner reported the matter to the police when the suspect came back to tell her that the land did not belong to her again.Hajara later confessed to the police that she duped the woman that she gave N8.5 million to a developer,Mohammed Sodiq,now at large,while she took the balance for her services.She would be arraigned in court after the investigation of the matter.
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