{"id":236276,"date":"2026-06-14T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-insecurity-ogun-police-crack-down-on-vehicles-with-concealed-fake-number-plates\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T05:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:25:00","slug":"nigeria-insecurity-ogun-police-crack-down-on-vehicles-with-concealed-fake-number-plates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-insecurity-ogun-police-crack-down-on-vehicles-with-concealed-fake-number-plates\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Insecurity &#8211; Ogun Police Crack Down On Vehicles With Concealed, Fake Number Plates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Ogun State Police Command has commenced a statewide enforcement operation against vehicles operating with covered, obscured, defaced, concealed, unauthorised, fake, or no registration number plates, as part of efforts to strengthen security and curb criminal activities across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The enforcement exercise, which follows a directive from the Inspector-General of Police, is aimed at preventing criminals from exploiting vehicle anonymity to perpetrate crimes and evade detection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Announcing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606120347.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ogun State Police Command has commenced a statewide enforcement operation against vehicles operating with covered, obscured, defaced, concealed, unauthorised, fake, or no registration number plates, as part of efforts to strengthen security and curb criminal activities across the state. The enforcement exercise, which follows a directive from the Inspector-General of Police, is aimed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,42933,13654,6891,2134,257,4687,393,7043,12407,35353,662,254,7402],"class_list":["post-236276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-concealed","tag-crack","tag-fake","tag-insecurity","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-number","tag-ogun","tag-plates","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vehicles"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}