Maj.-Gen. Abdusalam Abubakar, the Commander of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), has vowed to arrest the killers of Na’aman Stephen, a Catholic seminarian. The commander, who doubles as the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 3 Division of the Nigeria Army, Rukuba, near Jos, made the promise at an interactive session...
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By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Rivers State Police Command has arrested 6 suspected cultists in connection with the murder of a Divisional Police Officer (DPO), SP Bako Angbashim in the state. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that the late Bako, who was killed during a shot out...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – No fewer than 399 pieces of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) been transported to Kaduna by one Oluwagbenga Leke has been intercepted by operatives of The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi disclosed this in a...
The Commander of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), Maj.-Gen. Abdusalam Abubakar, has vowed to “end senseless killings and destruction of farmlands and other properties in the southern part of Kaduna State”. The commander said this in an interactive session with stakeholders on Sunday in Zango-Kataf. The News of...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Kaduna State Command, says its operatives have seized 685.179 Kg of illicit drugs and dismantled 13 illicit drug joints in Kaduna. The state Commander, NDLEA, Mr Ibrahim Braji, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sunday that the seizure...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The North East Governors Forum (NEGF) has raised concerned over the new dimension of growing banditry which has worsen the security situation in the subregion as a result of the concerted efforts of the Military to flush bandits from the other parts of the...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has expressed sadness over the gruesome murder of SP Bako Angbashim, the Ahoada Divisional Police Officer (DPO), who was beheaded by gunmen suspected to be cultists in Odiemudie Community in the Ahoada East LGA of the state. ...
North East Governors’ Forum has urged the military to neutralise insurgents that fail to surrender in the ongoing mass surrender by terrorists in the sub-region. The Chairman of the North East Governors’ Forum, Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno, made the call on Saturday in Maiduguri at the 8th...
The Vice President, Kashim Shettima, on Saturday in Maiduguri lamented that Boko Haram insurgency had inflicted damages in the North-East, to the tune of $9billion. The Director, Information, Office of the Vice President, Mr Olusola Abiola, in a statement, said Shettima stated this while inaugurating the distribution of...
Gunmen, suspected to be cultists, have beheaded Bako Angbashim, the divisional police officer (DPO) in charge of Ahoada in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State, South-south Nigeria. The incident happened on Friday night. PREMIUM TIMES gathered that the officer, a superintendent of police, was beheaded by suspected...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A 500-level student of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Eric Nuhu, male (23) has been arrested by operatives of the Bauchi State Police Command, for his alleged involvement in cultism. He was arrested along with a Higher National Diploma 1 and National...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – The Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, has condemned the recent attack on the Fadan Kamatan Parish – Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan, located in Zangon Kataf LGA of the state. Governor Sani, who condemned the attack in a statement by his Chief...
The police command in Cross River has dispelled a rumour of disappearance of some men’s private parts in Calabar. The command spokesperson, SP Irene Ugbo, dispelled the rumour while parading 13 suspects arrested in the state in August. Ugbo said that investigations showed that the rumour,...
Ekiti State Police Command on Friday arraigned one Adeosun Adeola, who allegedly claimed that N1.6 million kept in his custody by another man disappeared by spiritual means. Thirty-two-year-old Adeola, a resident of Ureje Street in Ado-Ekiti, is standing trial on a two-count charge of breach of peace...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has handed over property recovered from a convicted fraudster, Aisosa Ohue, alias Frederick Leonard, to an American victim, Cheryldene Cook. Its Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. According to him, the property include the...
A Catholic Parish house in Kamantan, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, was on Thursday night set ablaze and a seminarian killed in an attack by bandits. The Parish in Kamantan is under the Catholic Diocese of Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area. The News...
The Commander, Army Headquarters Garrison (AHQ Gar), Maj.-Gen Koko Isoni, on Thursday inaugurated a General Court Martial to try 14 officers and nine soldiers alleged to have breached different provisions of the Armed Forces Act. The court martial was convened at the Scorpion Officer’ Mess, Asokoro Abuja, pursuant...
The Anambra State Government says it apprehended a couple who starved their five-year-old daughter over allegations of witchcraft. Mrs Ify Obinabo, state’s Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare told journalists on Thursday that the couple were apprehended at Adazi-Ani, Anaocha Local Government Area of the state. Obinabo said...
The Defence Headquarters says troops of the armed forces of Nigeria have in the last three months, neutralised 817 terrorists, apprehended 1,326 criminals and rescued 721 hostages in different operations across the country. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, made this known while briefing newsmen...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ado-Ekiti Ekiti State Police Command has arrested 10 suspects allegedly connected to the death of a student of Federal University, Oye Ekiti. The deceased, Atanda Deborah, was a 200 level Nursing student who went missing and her body later found in a shallow grave,...