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The Nigeria Police Force has uncovered a secondary school student who sells nude videos to his classmates for N500,000.

Omosetemi Agbede-Zuokumor, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ugborikoko Division, disclosed this at a town hall.

At the town hall in Uvwie Local Government Area of Delta State, the Chief Superintendent of Polcie (CSP) raised the alarm while recounting an outreach conducted by her team at a secondary school in Delta State.

According to her account, police personnel seized several expensive smartphones, including iPhone 15, iPhone 16 and Samsung devices, after allegedly discovering students watching pornographic content and engaging in sexual activities during school hours.

However, the investigation took a more disturbing turn after one male student unlocked his phone for the officers.

Speaking in a trending video, Agbede-Zuokumor said officers allegedly discovered several intimate videos and photographs involving female students from the boy’s class on the device.

“After we went to the school and seized the secondary school students’ phones, one of the students unlocked his phone, and we found almost nude videos of his female classmates,” she said.

She alleged that the student claimed the videos were being sold.

The officer further claimed that the student had more than 85 foreign phone numbers, including Australian numbers, which he allegedly used in online fraudulent activities.

She said the student was allegedly using photographs of white or foreign-looking individuals, commonly referred to as “oyibo faces”, as part of the scheme to deceive people online.

According to the officer, the student also allegedly had the intimate images and videos of female classmates on the same device and was reportedly selling them for as much as ₦500,000.

She added that the boy reportedly told officers that the female students had asked him to sell the material on their behalf.

The allegations have raised serious concerns over the exposure of children to cybercrime, pornography and the non-consensual circulation of intimate material among young people.

The officer also expressed concern over the type of smartphones being used by some of the students, noting that many of those whose phones were seized reportedly possessed expensive devices despite coming from families engaged in small-scale businesses.

“Most of these students are using iPhone 15 and 16, while their parents are petty business owners,” she said.

She described the situation as troubling and warned of the potential consequences for young people becoming involved in cybercrime and other harmful online activities at an early age.

The officer further disclosed that some parents later visited her office seeking the return of the seized devices.

“It’s sad to see that their parents came to my office to collect back the destruction of this generation,” she said.

The reported incident has sparked concerns about the growing exposure of young people to pornography, cybercrime and the misuse of smartphones, while also highlighting the need for stronger parental guidance, digital education and safeguarding measures in schools.

The allegations made by the officer have not been independently verified and the identities of the students and the school involved were not disclosed.

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Property and other valuables worth millions of naira have been lost to a fire incident that gutted the popular Oranyan Market in Ibadan North-East Local Government Area of Oyo State, on Sunday night.

The affected shops included jewellery shops, furniture outlets, second-hand clothing shops and others.

The cause of the fire, which started in one of the shops before spreading to others, had yet to be ascertained as of the time of filing this report.

A trader, who simply identified herself as Iya Alia, said, “The fire started around midnight. I cannot be specific about that time. And those affected were gold sellers, furniture shops, second-hand clothes shops and many others. The shops affected were almost 300.”

Another eyewitness, who did not want his name in print, said, “This is devastating. This is huge. I don’t even know how to explain it. Close to 300 shops were destroyed.”

When contacted by our correspondent on Monday in Ibadan, the state capital, the Special Adviser to Governor Seyi Makinde on Fire Reforms and Chairman of the Oyo State Fire Services, Morof Akinwande, confirmed the incident.

He said, “Yes, it occurred. That number we cannot ascertain, but what is known is that some shops were destroyed and the fire incident started in the middle of the market with an explosion.

“Whether it’s a gas explosion or other things, when you have a gas explosion, it would spread. But as I’m talking to you, the situation has been under control since 1am.

“On the number of shops and inventory, that is too early because that’s part of the post-fire outbreak investigation. So, I cannot be accurate about the number of shops that were destroyed. But shops were actually gone.”

Nigerian Tribune reports that a similar incident occurred at the herbal section of the market in 2024, when over 200 shops were completely razed.

It will also be recalled that a fire incident on Saturday, August 22, 2026, razed nine locked-up shops at the Nigerian Railway Shopping Complex, located along the popular Aleshinloye Market in Ibadan South-West Local Government Area of Oyo State.

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Nigerian Navy and Army operatives disrupted illegal petroleum activities in Imo State over the weekend and arrested three suspects in a coordinated operation.

The Navy also destroyed an illegal refining site (IRS) worth millions of naira, which had been dismantled earlier.

These operational successes were detailed in statements released yesterday by the Director of Naval Information (DINFO), Captain Abiodun Folorunsho.

In Imo, personnel from Naval Base Oguta and the Nigerian Army intercepted a tipper truck and a Toyota Hiace bus carrying about 8,500 litres of suspected illegally refined petroleum products along the Ejemekuru-Obudi-Agwa axis.

The Hiace bus was found with about 150 bags of the suspected products. Three suspects were arrested, while other occupants of the second vehicle fled, abandoning it, the Navy said.

The suspects, vehicles and recovered products have been taken into custody for further investigation, the service added.

In Rivers, operatives of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Soroh, acting on intelligence about the suspected reactivation of illegal refining activities, uncovered and disrupted three illegal refining sites in the Okolomade and Ogbogolo areas under Operation Delta Sentinel.

The sites yielded two cooking drums, two large ovens, 10 reservoirs, four storage facilities and two makeshift camps believed to have sheltered illegal refiners. Investigators also recovered about 91,000 litres of suspected stolen crude oil and roughly 70 litres of suspected illegally refined Automotive Gas Oil (AGO).

The Navy said the facilities and recovered items were handled in accordance with established procedures.

It said both operations reflected sustained inter-service cooperation and intelligence-led security efforts to disrupt the illegal movement of petroleum products and deny criminal elements access to established routes for economic crimes.

The Navy restated its commitment to deepening collaboration with the Army and other security agencies to combat crude oil theft, illegal refining and the illicit movement of petroleum products, while protecting the country’s critical economic interests.

It pledged that Operation Delta Sentinel would continue to degrade infrastructure supporting oil theft in previously affected areas.