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...
Lagos State Governor,Mr Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday thursday said that his administration would consolidate on its infrastructural renewal drive with the construction of 181 local government roads in the current fiscal year,saying the process for the award of the contract would commence next week.Governor Ambode ,who spoke at the first Quarterly Town Hall Meeting for 2017,the sixth in the series,held at Ajelogo Housing Scheme,Ajelogo Market Road,Akanimodo,Mile 12,said the 181 roads,is an improvement on the 114 roads,two in each local government,which his administration promised to embark upon every year.Acknowledging that most of the requests made by residents during the interactive session at the Town Hall Meeting were majorly on roads owing to the success of the 114 roads delivered in September 2016,the Governor said his administration thought it wise to ensure that the roads captured for 2017 are key roads that would have economic impact on the people living in that axis,hence the increase to 181 roads.''I want to pronounced here that you should watch out next week in the newspapers,we are advertising 181 roads which would be done in all our local government.What we have found out is that if we decided to continue with two,some of those roads are not linking each other to the main road,so most likely you would see that if we are supposed to do some road in some local governments,it would only make economic sense if there is a linkage.So you would see in the advert that some local governments would have like three,some would have four roads,bu the average is that 181 if you divide it by 57 that would be a minimum of three roads from each local governments'',Governor Ambode said.More photos below.
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