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...
According to Marilyn Ogar,the Deputy Director,Public Relations of the Department of State Security Service {DSS} says ''A petition was received by this service about some activities at No.10 Bola Ajibola street,Ikeja Lagos.The petition alleged that those behind the activities were cloning INEC permanent voter cards,with the intention of hacking into INEC data base,corrupting and replacing them with their own data.Based on this information,the service placed the building under surveillance and having been convinced that some unwholesome activities were going on in the building,it undertook a raid of the premises.In the process some persons were arrested,three hard drives and 3 Ghana must go bags of hard copy documents were recovered and taken away for further investigation.It must be noted that the said location had no sign post indicating whether it was a private or government office''.One more photo below. 
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