Inside Nigeria’s unregulated taser market where legal loopholes allow unchecked sale, use
Add us on Google Sometime in February 2025, a criminal gang held Mary Aderemi after she boarded a taxi in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital. Join the Premium Times WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You. Open in WhatsApp “Call your boss, call anyone you know to give us money or we will sell or kill you now,” Mary recounted a member of the gang yelling.
- ▪Add us on Google Sometime in February 2025, a criminal gang held Mary Aderemi after she boarded a taxi in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital.
- ▪Join the Premium Times WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You.
- ▪Open in WhatsApp “Call your boss, call anyone you know to give us money or we will sell or kill you now,” Mary recounted a member of the gang yelling.
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| Original publisher | Premium Times |
| Canonical URL | https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/898289-inside-nigerias-unregulated-taser-market-where-legal-loopholes-allow-unchecked-sale-use.html |
| Publication time | Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:46:26 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-26T15:48:10.720Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-26T15:48:10.720Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Add us on Google Sometime in February 2025, a criminal gang held Mary Aderemi after she boarded a taxi in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital. Join the Premium Times WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You. Open in WhatsApp “Call your boss, call anyone you know to give us money or we will sell or kill you now,” Mary recounted a member of the gang yelling. The incident occurred around 1 pm. Ms Aderemi had entered an ash-coloured Volkswagen taxi around the Churchgate area of the city. She needed to get to her lecture centre early to continue preparing for her accounting certification exam. The car stopped at different intervals to pick up three other passengers.
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