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The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Olukayode Egbetokun says the Special Task Force on Petroleum and Illegal Bunkering (STFPIB) has arrested 59 suspects and two vessels over oil theft in two months. Egbetokun said this on Thursday, in Abuja at the opening of a conference with Strategic Police Managers, consisting of officers from the rank
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Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja Military authorities said yesterday that troops of Operation Delta Safe dismantled 13 Illegal refining sites set up by oil bunkerers in the Niger Delta region. The military also recovered 9,856.1 barrels of stolen crude, 1,339,000 litres of illegally refined diesel or Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) and 500,000 litres of kerosene or DPK while 24 suspected oil thieves were nabbed. Speaking at a media briefing in Abuja, Coordinator, Directorate of Defence Media Operations (DDMO), Major General John Enenche, said troops of Operation Delta Safe sustained the aggressive fight aga...
Punch Newspapers Sections Adelani Adepegba, Chukwudi Akasike and Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has sentenced one Jubrin Abubakar to three years’ imprisonment for illegally dealing in petroleum products. Abubakar was jailed on Tuesday after pleading guilty to one count bordering on illegal dealing in petroleum products. A statement on Thursday by the Head, Media and Publicity, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, indicated that Abubakar was arrested by officers of 6 Division, Nigerian Army, at the Trans-Amadi area ...
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), on Thursday denied media reports that terrorists had overrun a military base in Marte Local Government Area (LGA), of Borno between Jan. 15 and Jan. 16.