The Commander, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), Maj.-Gen. Abdusalam Abubakar, has visited some wounded soldiers currently undergoing treatment at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH). Capt. James Oya, the Media Officer of OPSH, said in a statement on Wednesday, that affected personnel were those wounded in the ongoing...
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Sixty-nine (69) gay suspects who were apprehended on Aug. 27 in Ekpan Community, Uvwie Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta during a gay wedding ceremony, have been released on bail. Counsel to the suspects, Mr Ochuko Ohimor, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Warri...
The police in Osun have called on illegal gun owners to voluntarily surrender them at the nearest Divisional Police Headquarters. This is contained in a statement issued by SP Yemisi Opalola, Osun Police Spokesperson. Opalola explained that the move was in compliance with the directive of the...
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma has assured the residents of Imo that the killers of seven Joint Task Force (JTF) members at Ehime Mbano area of the state on Tuesday will be fished out to face the law. Uzodimma gave the assurance on Tuesday evening, when he visited the...
Unknown gunmen have killed no fewer than eight security agents comprising soldiers, policemen and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Imo State. The incident which happened on Tuesday morning in Umualumaku community, Ehime Mbano LGA of the state has thrown the area into panic, according...
By TOM CHIAHEMEN, Abuja – The Defence Headquarters has reacted to a video clip in circulation across the social media handles of some soldiers engaging with bandits somewhere in Katsina State. Director of Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Tukur Gusau, said in a statement on Tuesday, that the military...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Police Command has arrested four persons for alleged involvements in banditry and kidnapping activities in the state. The command’s spokesman, SP Sewuese Anene, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Tuesday in Makurdi. He said the suspects identified as Ordoonku...
The Police Command in Plateau, has arrested two other medical doctors in connection with the alleged harvest of vital human organs by one Noah Kekere, a suspected quack doctor. DSP Alabo Alfred, the command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, has ordered that a 36-year-old business woman, Lois Iliya, be remanded in a correctional centre over alleged lesbianism with a minor. The defendant was charged by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC) with unnatural offence, contrary to section 259...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – A twelve years old JSS two student of Junior Secondary School, Kurmin Tagwaye II, in Akwanga, Favour Williams, was last week Monday, found death in a mysterious way in her father’s farm. Favour, allegedly hung her self in the farm in Kurmin twagwaye II...
By BARBARA KALU, Enugu – Enugu State Commissioner of Police in Enugu State, Mr Kanayo Uzuegbu, has ordered the deployment of more men to rescue a Rev Father and three other persons abducted on Sunday in the state. Recall that the victims were abducted along Eke-Egede axis of...
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Mr Idowu Owohunwa, on Monday announced the arrest of three suspects, who allegedly robbed and killed Mr Sanni Adeniyi, an Aide to Senator Solomon Yayi. Owohunwa told newsmen at the command’s headquarters, Ikeja , that the suspects were arrested in Lagos...
Troops of 82 Division, Nigerian Army, and the Nigerian Police have neutralised six combatants of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network (ESN) in different encounters in Abia and Enugu States. This is contained in a statement by the Director of...
The Ogun Police Command has confirmed the arrest of nine suspected cultists following the killing of eight persons over the weekend in Sagamu as rival cult groups clashed. Speaking at a news conference in Abeokuta on Monday, Abiodun Alamutu, the Commissioner of Police, said the remote cause of...
The police have arrested a 40-year-old man, Adetomiwa Adeyinka, at Ahmadiyya Ijaiye, Ojokoro area of Lagos, for allegedly strangling his girlfriend who visited him in his house and sleeping with her corpse. Adeyinka, on September 12, went to the police, and lied that the lady, 36-year-old Chinonso Okomadu, who...
The Osun State Government has imposed an indefinite dusk-to-dawn curfew on Ilobu and Ifon Communities both in Orolu and Irepodun Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. The measure was coming in the wake of a communal clash between the two communities, leading to a total breakdown of...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), says it has intercepted 6,600 bottles of codeine-based syrup and arrested six suspects in various raids across the country. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives on patrol along Aba-Owerri expressway has intercepted five pregnant teenage girls suspected to be victims of child trafficking used as baby factory. The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) says its Air Component of Operation Delta Safe has in the last two months, destroyed more than 30 illegal oil refining site in the strikes around Cawthorne Channel and Bille, in Degema Local Government Area of...
The police command in Kaduna State has confirmed that two persons were killed and three others kidnapped by suspected bandits on Sept. 15 in a community in the state. The command’s Acting Public Relations Officer, Mr Mansir Hassan, confirmed the development in an interview with the News Agency...