HARD TIMES AWAIT ILLEGAL MINERS AS OLUKOYEDE BAGS MINILS’ FELLOWSHIP AWARD. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE

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 Hard Times Await  Illegal Miners as Olukoyede Bags MINILS’  Fellowship Award The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has vowed to intensify his crackdown on illegal mining by going after the financiers, mineral buyers, compromised public officials and other collaborators who profit from the illicit exploitation of Nigeria’s mineral resources. Olukoyede made this disclosure in Ilorin,  Kwara State on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, while delivering a Keynote address at a joint conference on Illegal Mining, Corruption and Climate Implications organised by the Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies MINILS, Ilorin, in partnership with the Human and Environmental Development Agenda, HEDA.  Beyond the address, the EFCC’s boss was honoured with the Fellowship of the Institute Speaking on the theme, “Uprooting the Roots of Resource Theft: A Zero-Tolerance Approach to Mining Corruption and Increasing Inse...

AIR FORCE OPERATIVES ASSAULT KAI OFFICERS. (PHOTO).




Air Force operatives assault KAI officers. 


The Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps popularly known as KAI has bemoaned the frequent attacks meted out by operatives of military formations and uninformed citizens on its operatives embarked on lawful enforcement duties in the State, thereby obstructing the course of justice.


Speaking at the Command’s headquarters of the Agency, Corps Marshal, CP Gbemisola Akinpelu (retd) disclosed that two unidentified Air Force officers fled the scene while two dispatch riders had been remanded at the Badagry Correctional Centre for assaulting operatives on enforcement duty against street trading and hawking which remains banned in the State.


According to her, “Our Special Squad had been on an enforcement operation to apprehend street hawkers on Mobolaji Bank-Anthony Way in the Ikeja area of the State when operatives of the Nigerian Airforce in conjunction with dispatch riders both in transit, assaulted and obstructed our officers from effecting the lawful arrest of a street hawker displaying bottled water and biscuits for sale in traffic.”


She said the incident, which was filmed by the operatives, could not identify the law-breaking military officers who fled the scene immediately. Akinpelu said the dispatch riders, Adeyemi Sunday, 35, Udoka Onyebuke, 46 and the street hawker, Chukwuemeka Ukpai, 22 were apprehended and subsequently arraigned before the Lagos State Special Offences (Mobile Court) in Bolade-Oshodi on counts of assault, battery and obstructions of justice.


 

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