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  • Suicide bombers may dress as Catholic priests, Military warns

    Suicide bombers may dress as Catholic priests, Military warns

    TERRORISTS may be up to a new trick in their suicide bombing mission in the country, the Department of State Security (DSS) warned yesterday.

    The agency said the next set of suicide bombers may disguise as Catholic Sisters after unidentified persons broke into a tailor’s  shop  in Kano, carting away 13 pieces of sisters’ outfit.

    It could not understand what a non-sister would want to do with the dresses other than to threaten the peace of the country.

    It therefore warned the public to be watchful.

    The DSS in a statement by its spokesman, Marilyn Ogar said   female suicide bombers might put on the dresses to bomb some unsuspecting targets.

    She said the unidentified persons broke into the  tailor’s  shop located at No. 55, Odutola Street, Sabon Gari, Kano during the week.

    “With the recent trend of female suicide bombings in the country, the theft of these regalia heightens concerns about the possibility of terrorist elements using same to perpetrate acts of terror,” she said.

    She asked everyone to “be more circumspect and exercise greater vigilance with users of such peculiar attires.”

    She also urged co-operation by all with law enforcement agencies through the provision of useful information on suspicious activities within their immediate environment.

    Recent bomb blasts in Kano and Kaduna were carried out by female terrorists.

    Meanwhile, the police have opened investigation into the alleged attempt on the life of the Commandant General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Mr. Ade Abolurin.

    The Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, said the  outcome of the investigation would be made public in due course.

    The NSCDC, had raised accused an unnamed Police Inspector of attempting to open fire on its  Commandant General Mr. Ade Abolurin.

    The Corps claimed that the said police inspector also threatened the lives of over 200 persons that were with the NSCDC boss at the time.

     

  • Bayelsa NSCDC disowns vehicle auction

    Bayelsa NSCDC disowns vehicle auction

    The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Bayelsa State Command, has disowned a report linking it with the auctioning of seized trucks.

    The State Commandant, Desmond Agu, said yesterday that the command was probing the report to unmask those behind it.

    He said it was unfortunate that a “report of such magnitude” was published without the command’s knowledge and urged the public to disregard it.

    Describing the report as “malicious and mischievous”, Agu said: “We do not have 14 trucks to sell or auction. We have no bicycle, motorcycle or any other vehicle, let alone trucks, to sell.

    We have started probing the matter to get to the root of the misleading publication, which is capable of tarnishing the NSCDC’s image.

    “The command has activated its investigative machinery to fish out persons behind the publication and to know their motives. Such persons will be dealt with lawfully.”

    Explaining that the NSCDC is a bureaucratic organisation, the commandant said no auction could be done without the involvement of the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC).

     

     

  • Oshiomhole seeks tough sanctions for vandals

    Oshiomhole seeks tough sanctions for vandals

    Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole has urged the Federal Government to impose tough sanctions on pipeline vandals.

    Oshiomhole spoke at the Government House while hosting the Joint Task Force on the Protection of Oil & Gas Pipelines, led by Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Commandant-General Dr. Ade Abolurin.

    The governor said: “We are worried about the scale, not only of oil theft, but the seeming ease with which pipelines are vandalised by criminals, leading to huge losses. What they steal is nothing compared to the net loss arising from their activities. Many communities and villages have been ruined, including mine.

    “I am told security agents try to preserve vessels seized in the course of tracking these characters, whether at sea, in river side areas or in the creeks, as exhibits for legal purposes. In the course of these, one thing leads to another. It is either the criminals manipulate the system through interventions from some quarters and you are asked to let them go or they succeed in recovering what was taken from them.

    “My argument is that rather than put a man in prison for 10 years, I will sink his ship, which is worth millions of dollars, because at the end of the day, the judicial process can be quite difficult in dealing with this kind of criminals, especially when huge sums of money are involved. The exhibit should be destroyed as soon as it is taken, before they start manipulating their way around the system.

    “When criminals make so much money from activities like this, they become so rich that they can afford sophisticated weapons, with which they overwhelm the security system.”

     

    “I assure you of my support and have no doubt that your visit to Edo will be of benefit to all of us. I appreciate the NSCDC’s efforts in the protection of government properties. Your men in Edo have been doing a fantastic job and have been active at our State Security Council meetings, making useful suggestions on a variety of issues.

    “We are not an oil-producing community, but there is a pipeline that passes through my village. A couple of years back, some criminals came into my village and burst one of the oil pipes. We had a spillage that contaminated a stream, which was the community’s source of water supply.

    But for the fact that I sunk a borehole there before I became governor and have sunk more now, the community would have had no water to drink.

    “So the effects of vandalism are not limited to economic loss, in terms of what is stolen and what is spilled, but the environmental devastation that arises from oil spillage and illegal refineries.”

    Abolurin said the task force was inspecting oil facilities across the country.

     

  • NSCDC warns vandals to stay away from Bayelsa

    The Bayelsa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) yesterday warned pipeline vandals and persons involved in illegal bunkering to stay away from the state.

    It said the creeks were unsafe for illegal activities, adding that it had evolved new strategies to sanitise them.

    The NSCDC Commandant, Mr. Desmond Agu, who spoke in Yenagoa at the monthly briefing of officers and men of the command, said operators of illegal refineries would be out of business without the activities of the vandals.

    Agu, who expressed his commitment to motivate operatives of his command, used the forum to honour three of the officials for their dedication to duty in the third quarter of the year.

    The beneficences are Mr. Inspector Ogbosain, who went home with a Plasma TV, Mr. Alasuo Randoph, who got an SV2,200 generator and Mr. Sumbiri Kalizibe, who received a decoder with a dish.

    Agu said the exercise would be done quarterly to encourage men of the command.

    He said the command had entered into a partnership with other security agencies and council chairmen to rid the state of vandals.

    According to him, through such collaboration, the command destroyed more than 142 illegal refineries in Southern Ijaw Local Government.

    Agu said over 17 suspects arrested in connection with vandalism have been arraigned while more than 18 persons have been remanded.

    The NSCDC chief reassured the federal and state governments, Minister of Petroleum and that of Interior of the command’s commitment to stop what he described as “economic sabotage” going on in the Niger Delta.

    He, however, said lack of adequate logistics, gunboats and operational equipment were some of the challenges facing the command.

    Agu warned officers and men against engaging in acts capable of tarnishing the image of the command and advised them to be committed to their duties.

    “You must be security conscious and monitor the activities of the public, most especially at this period of insurgency. Do not intimidate and extort money from the public,” he said.

  • NSCDC parades man over N95m employment scam

    NSCDC parades man over N95m employment scam

    The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) paraded yesterday a suspected job racketeer kingpin for allegedly defrauding  job seekers of N955 million.

    NSCDC spokesman Emmanuel Okeh, who briefed reporters said: “Michael Ogun (44)  was arrested at his home in new Nyanyan, Abuja, where he allegedly perpetrated his nefarious activities.

    “The suspect opened a Facebook account in the name of the NSCDC commandant general asking applicants to pay for recruitment.

    “He has defrauded  applicants seeking for employment into the Corps, Customs, Immigration and other services of N403, 624, 992.”

    “Other fraudulent financial transactions  amount to $950, 000 and other transaction involving money laundering  amount to N552, 371, 901.50”

    “Therefore, from different fraudulent accounts, N955, 996, 893.50 was said to have passed through his bank accounts.”

    According to Okeh, the suspect printed fake employment letters of various agencies, including the Corps, Nigeria Immigration Service and Customs and issued same to his victims by urging them to report for documentation.

    These job applicants  were posted to Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.

    He said Ogun will be handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

    The NSCDC warned the public that the Commandant General, Dr. Ade Abolurin, nor the Corps has any Facebook account for recruitment.

    But Ogun denied the allegation.

    He said:“I’m completely demoralised; I did not do those things.

    “All these things that were said about me, I am surprised to hear them.

    “There is someone behind this; I want the person to come forward.

    “ It is a set-up, the person who set me up is an NSCDC official.

    “The laptop taken from my house,belongs to my managing director.”

  • Army hands over six suspected vandals to Civil Defence Corps

    Army hands over six suspected vandals to Civil Defence Corps

    Men of the Nigeria Army (NA) serving at Ikere Local Government Area, Ekiti State have arrested six suspects   vandalising telecommunication equipment, including cables.

    The suspects were consequently handed over to the State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).

    The Corps Public Relations Officer, Mr. Afolabi Tolulope, in a statement, said the suspect were caught following a search for the vandals inside a tunnel dug to excavate cyber optic cable belonging to a telecommunication company.

    The suspects paraded by the NSCDC included a policeman. Their identities were however not disclosed to reporters.

    Items recovered from them included a Nissan Micra car, earthmoving equipment, digger, jack, screwdrivers, saw, saw blades and ladder.

    State Commandant of NSCDC, Mr. Shem Obafaye, who said the suspects would soon be charged to court when investigations were concluded, noted that efforts were on to apprehend others outside the state.

    Obafaye urged the general public “to give viable information on how to curb and arrest vandals before they vandalise critical national asset in their domain.”

    He also urged contractors dealing in electrical and communications materials in the state to desist from buying stolen cables from vandals to discourage them from perpetrating the act.

    According to him, the state command would soon embark on the search for dealers in such stolen cables.

    The Commandant praised the cooperation between the Army and the corps, which he said had been producing positive results to rid the society of criminals.

     

  • NSCDC boss tasks officers, men on crime, terrorism

    The Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Ondo State, Mr. Andrew Ugwumba, has tasked officers and men in his command to brace up in the current fight against terrorism and other security challenges in the country.

    Ugwumba gave the charge at the weekend during a Security Summit organised by the Command in Akure, the state capital.

    According to him, there was the need for the officers to be friendly with people, noting that it is through this that useful information can be made available in the fight against criminals and criminality.

    The NSCDC boss said that the purpose of the summit was to focus on the effective handling of security challenges by the security agencies, adding that the issue of security was the collective business of security agencies and the people.

    He said, “Intelligence gathering and partnership is the bedrock of our operation as security agencies; the need to gather information and share promptly with relevant stakeholders for effectiveness cannot be overemphasised or ignored.

    “We must work with the media with a view to educating and informing the masses and put the record straight on the current trends of security challenges facing the country. The current security challenge is not peculiar to Nigeria alone, it is a global phenomenon.”

    Ugwumba urged the officers to do their best in the discharge of their responsibilities and do away with anything that could tarnish the image of the Corps.

     

  • NSCDC parades suspects caught with minor’s body

    NSCDC parades suspects caught with minor’s body

    The Abia State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps

    (NSCDC) has arrested two men caught with the body of a two-year-old girl.

    They were caught while trying to bury the girl in an abandoned pit.

    The two middle-aged men were apprehended at the Enyimba Filling Station, near Ariaria International Market, at Osisioma, near Aba, when trying to bury the girl put in a sack.

    Speaking in Umuahia while parading the suspects, the Commandant, Andy Dateer, said his officers were shocked when they caught two men trying to bury a two-year-old girl. He said they were attracted to the scene when the men quarrelled with a man who brought them there in his car.

    “As people gathered, the owner of the car zoomed off and my men arrested the two suspects.”

    Dateer said they would be handed over to the police.

    The NSCDC boss said his men went to Chineye Hospital where one of the suspects claimed the girl died and met a nurse, who denied that the girl died there.

    One of the suspects, who gave his name as Chibuike Anubuife from Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State, said he saw the other suspect for the first time that day and asked him to help him bury the girl.

    He said he was discussing the logistics for the burial of the girl, when men of the NSCDC swooped on them and arrested them, adding that he is a trader selling textile materials in Aba.

    The second suspect, Jonathan Nwogu from Mgboko Umuola in Obingwa Local Government, said the first suspect approached him to help him bury the girl.

    He said the first suspect claimed she died in a private hospital, adding that he attempted to run away when the NSCDC men wanted to arrest them.

    Nwogu said Anubuife later took them to Chineye Hospital at Umule in Aba where the girl was alleged to have died.

    He said the man, who brought the girl, gave him N2,000 so that he would bury her, adding that he had not met him before that day and could not trace him.

  • NSCDC officials invade JAMB office

    NSCDC officials invade JAMB office

    Some Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) officers in Kogi State attacked  workers of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Lokoja yesterday.

    The armed NSCDC officials stormed the office at 10am, dragged out guards and took them away on the allegation that JAMB refused to engage their services.

    The NSCDC claimed that SPITEC, the security outfit contracted by JAMB to guard its office, was not registered with the organisation.

    The invasion was led by RSM Jegede, who allegedly ordered his men to shoot any worker who refuse to ‘cooperate’.

    When the JAMB state coordinator, Daniel Agbo and some workers pleaded that the issue was being handled by the headquarters, the officials attacked them.

    They were said to have shut the office after beating up some workers, including an expectant mother.

    Another worker, Miss Victoria Tachio, was reportedly beaten up and her clothes torn.

    Agbo condemned the “commando-like manner officers of the corps”, saying it was crude and uncivil.

    Showing reporters bruises on his body, Agbo said he fell three times, even as “one of them pointing his rifle” at him.

    He said cash from sales of scratch cards and forms, mobile phones and other personal effects were carted away by the attackers.

    When reporters approached the NSCDC state commander, Dayo Adesuyi, his men barricaded the road, shouting abuses.

    One of the officers, Akusebio T. O, threatened to deal with them.

    The Sun correspondent, Emmanuel Adeyemi, was attacked.

  • NSCDC invade JAMB office, beat up staff

    NSCDC invade JAMB office, beat up staff

    Men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps ((NSCDC), Kogi State Command, Wednesday, unleashed terror on the Lokoja office of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), beating up staff of the federal government parastatal.

    The heavily armed NSCDC personnel stormed the office around 10am, forcefully dragging out security men manning the office and whisking them to their office, on the allegation that JAMB refused to engage their services.

    The NSCDC claimed that SPITEC, the security outfit contracted by JAMB to guard its office was not registered with the organisation.

    The invasion was led by one RSM Jegede who allegedly ordered his men to shoot any staff who refuse to ‘cooperate.’

    When the JAMB state coordinator, Mr. Daniel Agbo and some staff pleaded that the issue was being handled by their headquarters, the corps personnel reportedly descended on them.

    They were said to have shut the JAMB office, after unleashing terror on the staff, including beating up a pregnant female worker.

    Another female staff, Miss Victoria Tachio was also beaten to a stupor and her clothes was tore to shreds.

    The JAMB accountant and one Ada Ugbole were also said to have been stripped and beaten up.

    Ugbole was said to have fainted in the NSCDC, before cell before he was rushed to the hospital.

    Speaking with newsmen, the state coordinator, Daniel Agbo expressed surprise with the “commando-like manner officers of the corps” invaded their office saying it was crude and uncivil.

    Showing journalists bruises all on his body, Agbo said he was fell thrice, even as “one of them pointing his rifle” at him

    He said cash from sales of scratch cards and forms, mobile phones and other personal effects were carted away by the attackers.

    When journalists made to hear from the NSCDC state commander, Mr. Dayo Adesuyi, on what transpired, his men barricaded the road, raining abuses.

    One of the officers, Akusebio, T. O. threatened to deal with the journalists.

    One of the journalists, Emmanuel Adeyemi, a correspondent with The Sun newspapers was manhandled and his working tool confiscated.