Tag: EXTORTION
DHQ kicks against Zulum’s allegation of soldiers extorting money from travellers
The Defence Headquarters has faulted a statement by Borno State Governor Babagana Zulum that Nigerian Army personnel extort money from travellers at checkpoints in...
LASTMA to summon officers caught on camera extorting motorists
The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) says it will summon several officers who were reportedly caught on camera extorting motorists.
The video of the...
EFCC freezes Shehu Sani’s bank accounts
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has frozen the bank accounts of former Senator Shehu Sani, his aide has alleged.
Sani has been in...
Shehu Sani facing criminal investigation, not persecution – EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says former Senator Shehu Sani, who is in its custody for alleged extortion, is facing criminal investigation...
Alleged extortion: Shehu Sani speaks from EFCC detention
Former Senator Shehu Sani has accused the Federal Government of ‘frame-up’ in the alleged extortion case brought against him by the Economic and Financial...
EFCC raids Shehu Sani’s Abuja residence
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) have begun searching the Abuja residence of former Senator
Shehu Sani.
TheCable reported on Wednesday that the officials...
Shehu Sani sees New Year in EFCC detention over $20,000 extortion
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has
arrested former Senator Shehu Sani for alleged extortion and name-dropping.
Sani used to represent Kaduna Central Senatorial
District at...
3 policemen dismissed for extorting 350,000 CFA from Togo-based Nigerian
Three policemen attached to the Ijanikin
Division of the Nigeria Police Force have been dismissed for extorting the sum
of 350,000 CFA from a Nigerian based...
Three farmers get one-year jail term each for theft, extortion
A Jos Upper Area Court in Kasuwan Nama, Jos, on Monday sentenced three farmers, Suleiman Dahiru, Jafaru Musa and Tahiru Adam to one-year imprisonment...
Man, 34, docked over alleged impersonation, extortion
The Police on Tuesday arraigned a 34-year-old man, Prince Williams, in a Wuse Zone 2 Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, for allegedly impersonating as a police officer.
The defendant...