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...
Jermaine Jackson,co-lead singer of global music brand,Jackson 5 and elder brother of late king of pop Michael Jackson yesterday friday confirmed readiness to participate at the star studded jazz concert being put together by the Lagos State Government in commemoration of the 2016 International Jazz Day.The concert,which is to be hosted by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode,will hold at the Lagos House in Alausa,Ikeja today saturday April 30 by 5pm.Jermaine,who confirmed his readiness to participate at the festival during a press conference held at the Lagos State Ministry of Information and Strategy,Alausa,said he would be at the festival to support the government and array of international and local artist who would be performing.Jermaine,who is in Nigeria as part of activities marking the Jackson Golden Africa Tour,also disclosed plans by the Jackson 5 to establish a music academy in Nigeria to nurture and prepare the talents in Africa for global market.He said ''It's been 50 years for the Jacksons and we are bringing a team together of people who can produce a concert.I like coming here because i have a lot of questions.I was just in China and i learnt that the first dynasty that started in China came from Africa here and i had a professor in China to tell me this.That made me very proud and the world needa to know this because in our history books in America,they don't put this there,they don't want us to know this but when you travel and you have the opportunity to see things for yourself,you will realize that the history books were written by someone else and it is their version and their interpretation of what happened which is usually not the truth.We are going to give you nice compilation of songs that you know and i am jusr=t very honoured to be here because we have been kept away fro you because of the politics and we are not interested in such politics because we are people who care about people.We need to have a closer relationship with Africa-American and the rest of Africa because we have been separated for long and we can reach out to do other things.There are lots of great talents here and we want to use our 50 years experience of being in the business to teac the arts.We have in our plans to establish Jackson Academy Performing Art School and the school will have a curriculum and also will teach music,directing,filming,lightening,producing,dancing and so on.We want to get the talents here ready for the global market and i do believe that the drums and beat started from here''.One more photos below. 
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