Is FESTAC Police Station Lagos’ Most Notorious? Its Atrocities Date Back to 2006
Police extortion and unlawful arrests have long been a concern in many parts of Lagos State, but the officers from FESTAC Police Station have taken these practices to an extreme…
3 Sets of AAU Medical Laboratory Science Graduates Can’t Forge Ahead Over Course Accreditation
Three sets of graduates of the Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, are at a crossroads and unable to forge ahead over the school’s failure to…
CONFIRMED: Lagos Man Killed in Broad Daylight and Run Over by Bikes Was Led Into a ‘Fight’ by Policemen
Two police officers of the Lagos State Task Force led a group of civilians on Wednesday to confront motorcyclists operating in the Aswani area of Lagos, but the bikers turned…
Lagos Man Loses N60,000 to Facebook Scammers While Trying to Purchase a ‘Fuelless’ Generator
Clinton Ugoh, a Lagos-based man, has recounted how a syndicate of fraudsters running the many Ecotech Fuelless Generator pages on Facebook defrauded him of N60,000. He told FIJ that he…
GTB Customer Loses N190,000 to Unauthorised Transactions
On April 14, Orelaja Oluwafemi Oluwaseun, a customer with the Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB), lost all the money he had kept in his account to multiple unauthorised transactions. The GTB…
REPORTER’S DIARY: Open Manholes, Death Traps. Where Are the Covers Missing in Lagos?
I have come to the conclusion that Lagos State can be both a sweet and a scary place to live in. In Ojodu Berger and Ikeja, Onipanu and Egbeda, Ojuelegba…
BVNs, NINs, Other Private Information of Nigerians Available on AnyVerify for Just N100
Only three months after FIJ exposed XpressVerify, a private website selling the Nigerian identification data, private website AnyVerify has been found trading Nigerian bank verification numbers (BVNs), among other sensitive…
After FIJ’s Story, GTB Returns Customer’s N1.3m Recalled 8 Weeks Ago
Guarantee Trust Bank has returned N1.3 million into the account of James Onireke (not real name), the customer whose money was recalled eight weeks ago. The refund came seven days…
First Bank Customer Debited Twice for Loan Repayment in May Hasn’t Got a Refund
Yusuf, a First Bank customer, has shared how the bank debited him N78,760 twice for loan repayment in May and has failed to refund him ever since. A document made…
GTB ATM Held Auto Dealer’s Card, Then N810,000 Left His Account
Ikechukwu Chukwuonye, a Lagos State-based auto dealer, has narrated how N810,000 mysteriously vanished from his Union Bank account. Chukwuonye told FIJ that the money was stolen from his account on…