By MARY RONKE, Minna – Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed two persons on Saturday evening in communities in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. The gunmen in their hundreds attacked communities surrounding Gwada town when locals were breaking their fast. This is according to a statement...
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In an attempt to frustrate the advancing of ground troops, terrorists of the Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP, have devised a new method of planting Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs, on highways and operational routes in the North East. While the troops succeeded in diffusing some of the...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – Unknown gunmen on Thursday attacked a police checkpoint in Isuofia, on the Ekwulobia Igboukwu Road in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra. Isuofia, which is the home to the Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, has been under attacked by assailants in recent times. Police...
Gunmen have killed an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Imo State. The official identified as Nwokorie Anthony was shot dead during the Continuous Voter Registration Exercise (CVR) in Ihitte Uboma Local Government Area of the state on Thursday. Two other staff involved in the registration exercise at...
No fewer than five students of the College of Health Science and Technology, Tsafe, Zamfara State have been kidnapped by armed bandits. It was learnt that the incident happened in the early hours of Wednesday. He said the bandits could not gain entrance to the school due to the...
Nabs security personnel involved in the Courier Nigerian troops have intercepted a ‘huge’ amount of ransom for the freedom of some captives in the custody of armed bandits in Kaduna State. PRNigeria gathered that some of the couriers of the ransom payment are suspected to be security personnel. The...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – No fewer than 98 scavengers, popularly known as “Babanbola”, have been arrested by the FCT Police Command over alleged criminal activities in different parts of Abuja. Parading the suspects during a press conference on Monday in Abuja, DCP Ben Igwe, who is in charge...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Ogun 1 Area Command has seized tons of marijuana from smugglers and handed it over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The NCS Controller in Ogun, Bamidele Makinde, handed over the seized drugs to the NDLEA Commander in Ogun, Ishaku Yusuf Kwajafa,...
Bandits who attacked the Kaduna-Abuja bound train on March 28 have paraded their victims in an unidentified location suspected to be a forest. The gunmen were seen in the video putting on military camouflage and uniforms. The bandits made their captives call on the government to come to their...
Osun State Police Command on Monday said it is investigating alleged extra-judicial killing of one Afolabi Abiola in Osogbo. Police spokesperson in the state, SP Yemisi Opalola, stated on Monday in Osogbo that Mr Olawale Olokode, Commissioner of Police in Osun directed the investigation to unravel circumstances leading to...
Gunmen have abducted the wife and daughter of the Commissioner of Environment in Plateau State, Idi Bamaiyi. Family sources said the victims were abducted on Saturday morning when the gunmen invaded the residence of the commissioner. They, however, confirmed that the incident had been reported to the security agencies...
An hotel manager, who allegedly raped a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member in Osogbo, will appear in court on Tuesday. SP Yemisi Opalola, the Police Spokesperson, Osun Command, Nigeria Police, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview. Opalola said that police...
Several locals have been killed by armed men suspected to be bandits during an attack on Tsafe town in Zamfara State. The assailants were said to have invaded the town which is the headquarters of Tsafe Local Government Area of the state on Sunday night. Neither the state government...
Gunmen have killed 10 persons and injured 19 others during a cultural festival in Chando Zerreci community in Irigwe Chiefdom of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau. Mr Lawrence Zango, the National Publicity Secretary, Irigwe Youth Movement, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Jos. Zango said that...
By OLA MODUPE, Abeokuta – The Ogun State Police Command on Sunday said it had arrested a 27-year-old man, Ibrahim Sikiru, for allegedly killing his father with a machete at Onipanu area of the state. The Police Spokesman in Ogun, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement issued...
Police command in Imo on Friday successfully repelled a deadly attack by suspected members of the proscribed Eastern Security Network (ESN) who attacked Mbieri Police Division. The police said the incident happened at the early hours of Friday, where a group of gunmen attacked the station with explosive devices....
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Operatives of The Kaduna State Police Command have averted a tragedy when its anti-bomb squad defused a bomb at Shanono community of Igabi LGA of the state. The command’s spokesman, ASP Mohammed Jalige, who confirmed the incident to newsmen, said the IED was discovered...
At least, twenty people, including women and children, drowned in Guni-Zumba river while fleeing due to an attack by bandits. According to Daily Trust reports, the victims escaped when bandits attacked Guni and Kurgbaku communities of Munya Local Government Area of Niger state. It was gathered that the incident...
BY OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Men of the Lagos State Police Command have repelled an attempted attack on Dangote Refinery, Lekki Free Trade Zone of the state. The state police spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday, said the attack occurred at the early...
A train conveying passengers from Abuja to Kaduna has been attacked by gunmen suspected to be bandits in Kaduna State. Many passengers are feared injured while several others were said to have been kidnapped by the assailants. Although the police authorities are yet to confirm the attack, which happened...