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...

COURT WALL COLLAPSE ON CHIEF JUDGE OF EKITI, JUSTICE ADEYEYE. (PHOTO).


Court wall collapses on Chief Judge of Ekiti, Justice Adeyeye

…as NBA laments infrastructural decay in Judiciary

 The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, on Saturday, said it received with rude shock, news that a section of the High Court building in Ekiti State, collapsed on the Chief Judge, Justice Oyewole Adeyeye.

NBA, which is the umbrella body of legal practitioners in the country, said this through its President, Mr. Yakubu Maikyau, SAN,

The legal body, in a statement that was signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Akorede Habeeb Lawal, disclosed that the “unfortunate incident” occurred last Wednesday.

NBA lamented that the incident exposed to the level of infrastructural decay in the judiciary.

It said the collapsed Ekiti court building, “again brings to the fore the deplorable state of infrastructures in most court buildings in Nigeria and the pitiable state of facilities available to court officials and users in the country.”

NBA President, therefore, urged the Government to be more deliberate about improving the state of facilities and security in courts across the federation.

“Mr. Maikyau who has since been engaging the leadership of the Bar and the Judiciary in Ekiti State over this incident, has expressed his delight that his lordship is responding to treatment and he has extended the gratitude of the NBA to the doctors, nurses and other staff of ABUAD Multi-system Hospital, Ado Ekiti, where his lordship is presently being tended to.

“The NBA President has urged members to pray for the quick and prompt recovery of his lordship, the Honourable the Chief Judge of Ekiti State,” the statement further read.

 

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