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 sources,late yesterday night,EFCC {Economic and Financiak Crimes Commission} arrested the Group Managing Director of BGL PLC,51 year old Mr Albert Okumagba,the company is into financial services and he was arrested for offences relating to stealing and obtaining money by false pretences.Albert Okumagba who hails from Delta state,was picked up late yesterday night.His arrest was triggered by investigation into a petition submitted to the anti graft agency by the Security and Exchange Commission {SEC},in May 2015.Albert was alleged to have diverted the sum of N28.6 billion being proceeds of private placements of 4.3 billion ordinary shares of 50k each at N7.00k per share in 2007.The company whose subsidiaries include BGL Capital,BGL Private Equity,BGL Security and BGL Asset Management,allegedly lured 50 investors from across the country into subscribing to the country's shares,promising them options o liquidity and exit within two years.The liquidity and exit options offered the investors,which were contained in its memorandum of private placements,implies that the investors would get value for their investments through one of ts subsidiaries,BGL Securities Limited.But BGL moved the sum of N28.9 billion to an offshore account belonging to one of its subsidiaries,BV1 Club1,British Virgin Island.The suspect was also said to have refused the investors the opportunity to liquidate their assets as promised.Investigation also revealed that though the suspect allegedly promised the investors that BGL would be listed on the SEC via an Initial Private Offer {IPO},within 24 months after the private placements turned out to be a ruse.One more photo below. 
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