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...

3 PEOPLE WERE ARRAIGNED YESTERDAY,FOR N25 MILLION EBONYI STATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT FRAUD.{PHOTO}.

                The EFCC yesterday thursday,July 28,2016,arraigned the former Coordinator of Afikpo South Local Government Development Center of Ebonyi state,Hon. Ugwuocha Okorafor,his Treasurer,Christian Chukwu Owo and the Administrative Officer,Mrs Anne Eke Agwu,before Justice E.A Ngene of the State High Court,Afikpo,Ebonyi State,on a 15 {Fifteen} count charge of conspiracy and stealing of public funds totalling over N25,000,000.00 {Twenty Five Million Naira Only}.Okoroafor and his alleged co-conspiratorts were said to have at various times between 2013 and 2015 raised vouchers for payments ranging from contract awards,salaries and independence day celebrations in the names of staff of the development centre who denied ever authorized such vouchers nor received such funds.Investigation into the matter which was reported by Center for Prevention of Corruption and Human Right Initiatives and some staff of the development centre revealed that the accused persons padded their salaries and that of other staff above the approved limits with the connivance of a staff of the bank where the local Government is domiciled.The sum of N16,000,000 and N8,000,000 were at different times traced to the accused person's account which upon interrogation,they could not justify the source.

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