Governor Dapo Abiodun has given a marching order to Ogun State Police Command to go after the killers of a couple, Kehinde and Bukola Fatinoye. Governor Abiodun gave the order in a statement issued in Abeokuta on Wednesday by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Kunle Somorin. The News Agency...
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Kaduna State Command says its operatives have arrested four suspects with 298 bags of Indian Hemp. The NDLEA state Commander, Mr Ibrahim Braji, made this known at a news conference in Kaduna on Wednesday. Braji said that the suspects were arrested in...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kano – The Kano State Police Command, says a couple has been found dead on its matrimonial bed in Dawakin Tofa LGA of the state, believed to have died of suffocation from charcoal fumes. The commands spokesman, SP Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa, who confirmed the incident in a...
By PETER OJOMA, Lokoja – The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested the suspected mastermind of the Okene explosion of Dec. 29, 2002 that left some innocent persons dead and wounded The suspected mastermind, Abdulmumin Ibrahim-OTARU (aka Abu Mikdad) and one of his associates, Saidu SULEIMAN, had allegedly...
The Police in Ondo State has urged residents to be security conscious and report suspicious movements in their environments to security operatives. SP Olufunmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, the command spokesperson, gave the advice on Wednesday in Akure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Odunlami-Omisanya was reacting to...
A medical doctor, Mrs Oyebimpe Akinbunmi, on Wednesday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how one Dr Olufemi Olaleye allegedly defiled his wife’s 16-year-old niece. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Olaleye, the Medical Director of Cancer Care Foundation, is facing a two-count charge...
After evading several onslaughts of the Nigerian military, a notorious Boko Haram warlord, Abou Hurairah, has met his waterloo in Marte LGA of Borno State. PRNigeria gathered that Abou Hurairah, was eliminated alongside some other Boko Haram Commanders. It was during an aggressive bombardment’s operation by the Air Task...
Sporadic gunshots rented the air at Ikare-Akoko, headquarters of Akoko North-East Local Government Area of Ondo State for the second consecutive day on Wednesday sending residents scampering to safety. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the firing of gunshots began on Tuesday when youths from a part...
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Wednesday in Abuja approved the appointment and redeployment of new Branch Chiefs, Air Officers Commanding (AOCs), Commandants of Tri-Service and NAF Institutions. It also approved the appointment of a new spokesperson and other senior officers. Group Capt. Joel Abioye of the Directorate of...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has recovered about N13billion as proceeds of illegal payments made under the subsidy regime between 2017 and 2022. The revelation contained in a document published in the website of the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit on the National inherent risk assessment of money...
At least nine people were killed and several others wounded in simultaneous car bomb attacks in a town in central Somalia on Wednesday, security officials and witnesses said. “The terrorists attacked Mahas town this morning using vehicles loaded with explosives,” local security official Abdullahi Adan told AFP by phone....
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The police in Bauchi State said its operatives in collaboration with other security agents in the state have killed many suspected kidnappers and bandits during an attack it launched on their enclaves at Dajin Madam and at the famous Yankari Game Reserve’s forest in...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the deployment of advance technology to tackle insecurity in Imo and other parts of the South East. Gov. Hope Uzodinma of Imo revealed this to correspondents after a closed door meeting with the president at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday. He said he...
Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi said the State Government would continue to work hard at ensuring that the masterminds of recent killings at Ekoli Edda in Afikpo South Local Government area of the state are arrested. Umahi made this known when he paid an unscheduled visited to the scene...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Troops of Operation Forest Sanity have eliminated four terrorists and recovered arms and ammunition as well as other items in two encounters in Kaduna State. Maj-Gen. Musa Danmadami ,Director, Defence Media Operations, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Danmadami...
The corpse of Oreoluwa Fatinoye, son of the couple who were allegedly killed by assassins in Abeokuta on new year’s day, has been recovered from Ogun river. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deceased was reportedly thrown into a river on Adigbe- Obada road in Abeokuta...
Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State on Tuesday condemned recent killings in parts of the state. Soludo was reacting to killings in Okpuno in Awka South Local Government Area and Obosi in Idemili North Local Government Area of the state. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that four youths...
Former governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, on Monday evening escaped death by the whiskers when gunmen attacked his convoy in Mbano. Ohakin, a one-term governor of Imo State, hails from Mbano. He was elected governor in 2007 but lost in his second term bid in 2011 to...
By OLA MUDOPE, Abeokuta – The Police command in Ogun State have arrested three suspects over an alleged attempt to kill a police officer, Akinpelu Sunday, while carrying out his duties at Orile Imo in Obafemi- Owode LGA of the state. The command’s spokesman, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the...
By HARUNA AHMED, Katsina – The Katsina State Police Command have killed a suspected terrorist while repelling their attack on Magamar-Jibia, Jibia Local Government Area of the state. The police spokesman in the state, SP Gambo Isah, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Monday in Katsina....