OVER 25 MILLION PHONES STOLEN IN ONE YEAR- FG. (PHOTO).

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 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...

FORMER MALI COUP LEADER AMADOU,STARTS HUNGER STRIKE.

Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo attends a ceremony as former parliament speaker Dioncounda Traore (unseen) is sworn in as Mali's interim president in the captial Bamako, April 12, 2012. REUTERS/Malin Palm                          General Amadou Sanogo,former Mali coup leader starts hunger strike over his conditions while on detention.Two years ago he allowed Islamist to seize it's desert north.He was arrested and chaged with complicity in kidnapping last November with regard to the disappearance during the 2012 coup of dozens of paratroopers,loyal to president Amadou Toumani Toure.Authorities have discovered 30 bodies,some of them wearing military uniforms,in mass graves near the headquarters of the coup leaders at the military barracks in the town of Kati,just outside the capital Bamako.He is protesting over his transfer to Lakeside town of selingue prison,150km{90miles} south of Bamako.His lawyer said this had left him cut off from his family and legal advisers,deprived him of medical care and placed him in danger.''He is going to observe a hunger strike and also to abstain from medical treatment''.The current President,Ibrahim Boubacar Keita,elected last August,is under pressure to restore the state's authority over the army and to root out pockets of remaining Islamist rebels in the north.A French led military intervention last year helped break the Islamist grip over the desert region.

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