A Joint Task Force comprising of Nigeria Army formations from Port Harcourt, Eket and the Nigerian Navy in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, destroyed illegally refined petroleum products on Thursday in the state. The Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 2 Brigade Nigerian Army, Capt. Samuel Akari,...
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The Kwara Police Command has arrested 13 crime suspects, including a medical director, for offences ranging from rape to armed robbery, cultism and rituals. The suspects, who were paraded before newsmen by the Commissioner of Police, Paul Odama, included the Medical Director of Ayodele Hospital, Sawmill Area, Ilorin, Dr Ayodele...
The Imo Police Command says it has begun a manhunt for the killers of a retired military officer and Gov. Hope Uzodimma’s kinsman, Mr Tony Enoch. Enoch was the Presidential Campaign Council Chairman for Ahmed Bola Tinubu/Kashim Shettima election in Uzodimma’s Oru East Local Government Area (LGA). He was...
No fewer than 2,167 repentant insurgents have graduated from the Operation Safe Corridor’s (OPSC) Deradicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DRR) programme, organised by the Federal Government, an official has said. Mr Audu Ayuba, the Assistant Director of Planning, Research and Strategy, National Orientation Agency (NOA), disclosed this on Friday at...
The Nigerian Navy has said that a total of 20 capital ships were procured for the Nigerian Navy (NN) during the eight-year administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Chief of Policy and Plans, Naval Headquarters, Rear Adm. Saidu Garba, said this in a statement he signed on Friday. According...
An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a medical doctor, Ayodele Joseph, for allegedly raping a patient. The suspect was arraigned on two counts of act of gross indecency and rape contrary to sections 285 and 283 of the penal code. The police alleged that the defendant sedated the...
The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), has given the Federal Government 18 days ultimatum to fish out and prosecute killers and abductors of its members across the country. The President of NSE, Mr Tasiu Gidari-Wudil, gave the ultimatum at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja on the killings...
The Chief Of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya says the Nigerian Army will hold periodic sensitization programmes against drugs abuse and other related issues in all its formations nationwide. Yahaya gave the assurance when he declared open a drug and narcotics control awareness conference, on Thursday in...
Police in Osun have arrested a 24-year-old woman who allegedly impersonated as a police officer to rob Point of Sale (POS) operators in Osogbo. Police spokesperson in the state, SP Yemisi Opalola, stated on Wednesday in Osogbo that the suspect was arrested on Tuesday after she was rescued from an irate...
President Muhammadu Buhari will on May 22, induct new warships, gunboats and helicopters for the Nigerian Navy. The Chief of Policy of Plans, (Navy), Rear Adm. Seidu Garba, said this on Wednesday in Abuja while briefing newsmen on the preparations for the Presidential Fleet Review (PFR) 2023. Garba said...
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.- Gen. Faruk Yahaya, on Wednesday assured that the Nigerian Army has the capacity to contain insurgency and deal with other criminal elements in the country. The COAS gave the assurance during combat training and exhibition of firing power, organised for Infantry and...
A 23-year-old assistant pastor on Tuesday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how a bishop, Daniel Oluwafeyiropo, allegedly raped her twice. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oluwafeyiropo is standing trial on an amended three-count-charge bordering on rape and sexual assault, to which he...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday closed its case against one Onarike Onagoruwa charged with defrauding a woman of five million Naira on the pretext of supplying her coconut oil. Onagoruwa is facing a three-count charge bordering on obtaining money under false pretences and issuance of dud cheque, ...
An angry mob, on Tuesday, swooped on two suspected motorcycle thieves at Popo bridge in Oke-Ado area of Ibadan and set them ablaze. An eyewitness, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on condition of anonymity, said that the suspects were apprehended after snatching a...
By BARBARA KALU, Abakaliki – The Ebonyi State Police Command has urged residents in the state to discountenance the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB) scheduled from May 8 through May 11. The Commissioner of Police in Ebonyi, CP Faleye Olaleye in a statement on Monday...
The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Adm. Awwal Gambo, on Monday said that the Nigerian Navy (NN) had redoubled its effort to reduce high insurance premium for ships in Nigerian-controlled waters. Awwal said this while he was inaugurating several projects that cut across the naval commands in Lagos...
By OJOMA PETER, Lokoja – No fewer than 134 kidnapped victims have been rescued from Odullo Forest in Kogi State by a vigilance group. The rescued victims were abducted in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Nasarawa State. The Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi, Mr Onogwu...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Faruk Yahaya has said that the Nigerian Army would utilise the support of the international entities to defeat the security threats confronting the country. Yahaya stated this in Bauchi on Monday during the inauguration of the 2023 Combat Arms Training Week, organised by...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has appreciated President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria for his support to regional integration and security. President, ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, said this at the First Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament on Monday. “Permit me to begin by expressing...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) says its operatives have arrested three suspected drug dealers in Nasarawa State. The the state command’s Public Relations Officer, DSC Jerry Victor, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday in Lafia. DSC Victor said the...