Commander, Intelligence Response Team, Mr Abba Kyari, has called for the deployment of intelligence and acquisition of sophisticated technology against kidnappers, noting that the criminals were deploying several means to evade arrest. The DCP stated that kidnappers are now using encrypted communication for ransom negotiations including WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, roam numbers and jammers to prevent tracking of their phones by law enforcement agencies. Speaking at 2019 annual general meeting of American Society for Industrial Security International, Chapter 273, Abuja, on Sunday, Kyari stated that this had made it increasingly difficult to track kidnappers, hence the need for acquisition of further…

Towards the end of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, was appointed Commissioner for Trade and Investment by Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit of Commonwealth of Dominica and was handed a diplomatic passport. This, perhaps, is why Diezani has been able to evade prosecution despite being in London for over four years. According to Qatar-based network, Al Jazeera, the former minister may have purchased a $2.2m choice property near the United Nations in upscale Manhattan, New York, for the Dominican Prime Minister in order to obtain the passport. In a documentary titled, ‘Diplomats for…

British police on Friday shot dead a man wearing a fake suicide vest who stabbed two people to death in London and wounded three more before being wrestled to the ground by bystanders, in what the authorities called a terrorist attack. The attacker went on the rampage just before 2 p.m. (1400 GMT), targeting people at Fishmongers’ Hall near London Bridge in the heart of the city’s financial district - the scene of a deadly attack by Islamist militants two years ago. The Times newspaper, citing unnamed government sources, reported that the man had previously been convicted of an Islamist…

Nigerian Police Force wednesday arraigned 60 members of the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) otherwise known as Shiite over alleged disturbance of public peace. Their arraignment before Mr Suleiman Belgore of the High Court of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Apo, Abuja, is coming five months after their arrest in the Abuja metropolis. They were arraigned on a nine-count charge bordering on homicide and disturbance of public peace and destruction of government properties. The defendants were among those arrested during the July 22, 2019 protest at Central Business District (CBD) area of the FCT. The protest led to the…