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...

FAKE SURETY: HEADMASTER CONVICTED FOR FALSE INFORMATION IN KANO.{PHOTO}.#PRESS RELEASE.

Umar Hassan, an Assistant Headmaster at Goron Dutse Primary School, in Dala Local Government Area of Kano State and a surety in the case of one Abdulkadir Mohammed Sani was today, August 20, 2021 sentenced to six months imprisonment by Justice Zuwaira Yusuf of the Kano State High Court for presenting false information to mislead operatives of the Kano Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, into granting bail to a suspect in a criminal case being investigated by the agency.


The Court had on August 12, 2021 convicted the defendant after he pleaded guilty to a one count charge of false information but reserved sentencing till August 20, 2021.


The charge read, "that you  Umar Hassan on or about 13th December, 2017, at Kano, within the Jurisdiction of the Kano State High Court, Kano did commit an unlawful act to wit: gave false information to an Officer of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission by representing yourself as a brother to one Abdulkadir Muhammad Sani who is under investigation, whom you later took on administrative bail as a surety and who is now at large, whereby you failed to produce him when required by the Commission and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 39 (2)(a) and Punishable under Section 39 (2)(b) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Act, 2004".


The defendant’s trouble began after he stood as a surety for one Abdulkadir Mohammed Sani who is being investigated by the Kano Zonal Command of the Commission for alleged offences of obtaining by false pretence and forgery.


When the defendant failed to produce the principal suspect at the required time, it was discovered that all the information given by him, including the claim of being a brother to the suspect, were false.

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