April 26, 2024

April 26, 2024

Police Service Union Embark On Indefinite Strike

The Joint Union Congress of the Police Service Commission (PSC) has announced an indefinite strike that the strike will commence with effect from Monday, August 29, 2022.   The strike was announced to the commission over a breach of agreement.   Chairman of the Joint Service Union, PSC chapter, Mr Adoyi Adoyi, disclosed on Thursday […]

Seven Suspected Robbers Apprehended By Amotekun In Ekiti

Ekiti State Amotekun Security Corps has arrested seven persons including two women for various criminal offences such as burglary and armed robbery.   Speaking with Journalists in Ado Ekiti, the commandant of Amotekun in Ekiti State, Mr Joe Komolafe explained that the suspects were arrested in Ara, Aisegba, and Ado Ekiti.   Mr Komolafe said […]

Police Nab Call Girl For Selling Own Baby For N600,000 In Ogun

A 23-year-old mother said to be a call girl, Mary Olatayo, had sold her three-week-old baby for N600,000, the Ogun State Police Command has said.   Olatayo was arrested by the police on August 18, following a complaint from the father of the baby, at Mowe Divisional Police Headquarters, Ogun State.   The father of […]

Gunmen Kill Police Inspector In Lagos

The Police Command in Lagos State has confirmed the killing of an Inspector by gunmen on Wednesday in Coker Aguda area of Lagos.   The spokesman for the command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos that the Inspector was inside a tricycle when he was shot.   The […]

One Feared Dead As Groups Clash Over Football Match In Jalingo

The Taraba State Police Command has confirmed the death of one person as a result of the fracas that erupted between two communities in the state.   Apart from the one death that was confirmed, several persons were also said to have suffered various degrees of injuries.   The crisis which occurred in the Nukkai […]

3,000 Weapons Recovered In Niger Delta By NACC

The National Centre for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (NCCSALW) has taken possession of over 3,000 firearms recovered in the Niger Delta.   The National Coordinator, Abba Dikko, made the announcement in a statement by the Head of Communication, Air Commodore Ewejide Akintunde.   The retired Major General disclosed that different categories […]

Bandits Storm Katsina, Kidnap Commuters

Bandits, on Wednesday, abducted a yet-to-be-specified number of commuters along the Katsina-Jibia road.   A source said that the incident took place around 5pm at Kadobe village.   According to the source, the bandits came on about six motorcycles, blocked the road and fired gunshots to scare commuters before kidnapping the occupants of two vehicles. […]

IRT Police Parades 21 Suspects over Kidnapping Homice, Armed Robbery, Jail Break, Other Crimes

Operatives of Force Intelligence Bureau, Intelligence Response Team, FIB-IRT of the Inspector-General of Police IGP Usman Alkali Baba have arrested and paraded a total of twent-one crime suspects over their involvement in criminal activities including kidnapping, culpable homice, armed robbery, unlawful possession of firearms, jail break and cultism. Force Public Relations Officer FPRO of the […]

Breakthrough As Police Nab Black Axe Members, Killers Of Lawmaker, Retired Officer

Operatives of the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested 11 undergraduates of Ambrose Alli University in Ekpoma, Edo State.   They were apprehended for alleged criminal conspiracy, cultism and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms.   Force Public Relations (FPRO), CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi paraded them at a media briefing on Thursday in Abuja.   […]