NSCDC arrests 5 hawkers of SIM cards

Date: 2018-12-02

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Kwara has arrested five suspects for allegedly hawking SIM cards and registering patrons without being accredited to do so.

The NSCDC Commandant in the state, Mr Adeyinka Fasiu, told newsmen on Saturday in Ilorin that the suspects were arrested within Ilorin metropolis while selling the cards.

Fasiu said that the suspects were arrested by NSCDC surveillance team during a routine patrol.

He said that two of the suspects confessed to the crime, saying that they were new in the business.

"The suspects led our officers to their alleged leader who they claimed supplied them the SIM cards,'' he said.

The commandant said illegal sale of SIM cards had become a popular trade, adding that many had been using the cards to carry out criminal activities.

He also said that the command signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU ) with the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) to halt usage of such cards.

"Their (NCC) enforcement team in Abuja came to me and requested for us to work together to reduce usage of such SIM cards and sale by road side hawkers.

"We had an agreement and since then, we have been working together to put a stop to the act, " he said.

Adeyinka advised residents to refrain from buying unregistered and registered SIM cards from road side hawkers.

He advised them to always visit accredited shops for the purchase of the cards to ensure their biometrics details were captured.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

SWAN     Plat Technologies     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Isiaka Oniwa     Tosho Yaqub     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     NIRSAL     Chikanda     Lanwa     11th Galadima     Saliu Ajia     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Naira Redesign     Kayode Laro     Omar Gambari     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Taiwo Joseph     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Aso Ofi     Gbugbu     Otoge     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Royal FM     Bashir Badawi     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Edu     Folorunsho Erubu     COEASU     Bello Oyebanji     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Balogin Alanamu     Sobi     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Read With Me     Aliyu Kora Sabi     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Sabitiyu Grillo     Oyelere Oyinloye     Femi Ogunsola     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Bature Bello     Kaosarah Adeyi     Mufti Of Ilorin     Bola Magaji     Hussein Oloyede     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Musa Aibinu     Modibbo Kawu     Abdulazeez Uthman     Abdulkadir Orire     MAI Akande     Rebecca Bake     Ajia-Bako     Sulyman Buhari     Sherif Sagaya     Shao     JAMB     Medview Airlines     UTME     Ayinke Saka     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Olaoye B. Felix     Ilorin East     Bamidele Adegoke     Aliyu Muhammed     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Belgore     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Prince Bola Ajibola     Diagnostic Centre    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Sarakite     UITH     Sunday Popo-Ola     JMK Construction Company Limited     Temitope Ogunbanke     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Gbajabiamila     Mazars Consulting     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Yekeen Alabi     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Arinola Lawal     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Tunde Akanbi     Fatimoh Lawal     LABTOP     Ilorin International Airport     Kola Bukoye     Halidu Danbaba     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Kwara 2015     Seun Bolaji     Sayomi     Kemi Adeosun     Jimoh Bashir     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Habeeb Saidu     Alore     Charles Ibitoye     Adeleke Ogungbe     Ibrahim Mashood     YAKOOYO     Rafiu Ajakaye     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Monsurat Omotosho     Post-utme     Siraj Oyewale     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Cornelius Adebayo     IPSAS     KWATMA     Segun Olawoyin     Oya State     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Abdullahi Biffo     Yusuf Badmus     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Aremu Odolaye     Barakat Community Secondary School     Laolu Saraki     Amos Sayo     Issa Baba     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Rotimi Atere     Ejidongari     Ajibike Katibi     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Olaiya Lawal     Ilorin General Hospital     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Millennium Development Goals     Eleja     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Khairat Gwadabe     AbdulRauf Keji     Moses Salami     Suleiman Idris     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Kannike     Henry Olaosebikan     Metro Park     Ajike People Support Centre     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Abdulazeez Uthman     Dumagi