Maj.-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division Nigerian Army, Kaduna, has charged Nigerian Air Force (NAF) personnel to continue working along the trajectory of bringing the desired peace and stability to Nigeria. Maj. Gen. Lagbaja gave the charge on Friday while speaking as a special guest of...
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The Police Command in Katsina State said it had successfully neutralised no fewer than 54 suspected terrorists and lost five officers in gun battles from Jan. 2022 to date. The Commissioner of Politics in the, Mr Shehu Umar-Nadada disclosed this during the end of the year press briefing on...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – No fewer than 1,465 suspects were arrested by the Bauchi State Police Command in connection with 724 cases of kidnapping, rape, attempted murder, armed robbery and many other crimes in 2022. This was disclosed by the Police Public Relations Officer, Bauchi State Command, Ahmed...
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested two brothers for allegedly kidnapping a woman and her nine-year-old son for ritual purposes. The suspects were arrested following information received by policemen at Oja Odan Divisional Headquarters that the two brothers were allegedly in negotiations over the phone to sell a...
The Commissioner of Police in Nasarawa State, Mr Maiyaki Muhammed-Baba, says the Command arrested 810 suspected criminals between January and December. CP Mohammed-Baba made the disclosure at a news conference on Friday in Lafia to present the command’s achievements for 2022.According to the CP, 136 of the suspects were...
Operation Delta Safe, a Joint Security Task Force in the South-South has arrested 699 suspects for various crimes in the Niger Delta region in 2022. Rear Adm. Aminu Hassan, Commander of the Joint Task Force, made this known on Friday at Igbogene in Yenagoa while briefing Journalists on their...
Police in Delta State have neutralised a member of a suspected kidnap gang and rescued a victim from the gang’s captivity. Police spokesman, DSP Bright Edafe told newsmen in Warri, Delta on Friday that the suspect was neutralised on Wednesday, same day as the victim was rescued. “Police operatives...
The Nigerian Army says efforts are still on-going to rescue the newly-commissioned female officer, Lt. PP Johnson, abducted in Imo allegedly by the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB). Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, stated on Friday in Abuja that the female officer was abducted on Dec....
A Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a policeman, ASP Drambi Vandi, who allegedly shot and killed a Lagos-based female lawyer, Mrs Bolanle Raheem, on Christmas Day. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Chief Magistrate, Mrs C.A. Adedayo, ordered that the suspect should be kept...
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Usman Baba, wants law-abiding citizens and parents to encourage their children and wards to take interest in policing. Baba made the appeal in a message he sent to the passing out of 374 Police constables from the Police Training College, Oyin Akoko, Ondo...
The Directors of the Department of State Service (DSS) in the North-East have called for closer collaboration between security agencies and stakeholders to enhance security network in the region. They made the call on Thursday in Gombe at the 10th North-East conference of State Directors of the DSS. The...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the suspension of ASP Drambi Vandi, AP/no 134901, who allegedly shot and killed a female lawyer, Bolanle Raheem, on Christmas day in Aja area of Lagos State with immediate effect. The Commission also directed that the final...
The Kogi Government has described Thursday’s Okene bomb explosion as the handiwork of enemies of progress. Retired Commodore Jerry Omodara, Security Adviser to Kogi Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, made the statement in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja on Thursday. The explosion, which...
The Nigerian Bar Association, Lagos Branch, on Thursday said it would monitor prosecution of the police officer who allegedly shot dead, a female lawyer, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Raheem was reportedly shot dead in Lagos on Dec. 25, while on Christmas outing...
A Kano High Court on Thursday sentenced one Sagiru Abdullahi, 29, to death by hanging for stabbing his stepmother Zainab Dan’azumi, 55, to death. The court had earlier convicted Abdullahi of Kurmawa Quarters, Kano, on a one-count charge of culpable homicide. Presiding Justice Aisha Mahmoud held that the prosecution...
Ten thousand police constables that passed out on Thursday will be deployed to provide security during the 2023 general elections. The Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, disclosed this at the Passing-Out-Parade of the 2022 batch of police constables in Ilorin. “It is noted that after today’s event,...
The Police Command in Oyo State says it has arrested nine suspects in collection with the alleged murder of Hakeem Mudashiru, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) grassroots mobiliser in Oyo Town. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mudashiru was allegedly macheted to death in his father’s house...
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of killing one of its members. The deceased known as Mudasiru Baraka who hails from ward 4 Tengba, Oyo East local Government area was a said to be a grassroot mobilizer in Oyo town....
No fewer than three persons have been killed after a bomb exploded in Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State. It was learnt that the incident happened on Thursday morning at the Oyinoyi’s Palace in Okenne Local Government Area of the state. This is coming few hours to the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Abubakar Tatari Ali State Polytechnic, Bauchi has presented certificates to all the 20 selected and accredited members of the Private Security Agents Association of Nigeria (PSAAN), who participated at a 3 day training on the role of private security agents and other volunteer security...