By NANA AISHA, Bauchi – The Bauchi State Police Command has debunked rumours emanating from video reports that the residence of Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), was attacked by hoodlums in the state. The Spokesman of the Command, SP Ahmed Wakil, dismissed the...
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The Police Command in Taraba has confirmed the killing of two of its personnel by soldiers on Monday in Jalingo. The command spokesman, Abdullahi Usman, told newsmen that two others were injured and currently receiving treatment. Usman said investigation would be conducted to ascertain the real cause of the...
The police command in Kano State has arrested 161 persons including a member state House of Assembly for alleged electoral offences during Saturday’s Governorship and States Houses of Assembly elections. Mr Mohammed Usaini-Gumel, the state Commissioner of Police said this when he addressed newsmen at the command’s headquarters in...
Police in Kogi have launched a search for six INEC officials attacked on Sunday at Obajana while conveying election results. Police rescued 96 victims comprising INEC officials, ad-hoc staff, bus drivers and others from the scene and took them to INEC headquarters in Lokoja Three injured victims were evacuated...
The Police Command in Kano state has confirmed the arrest of three persons suspected of disrupting elections in Masaka polling unit, Kofar Mazugal/Gwammaja, Dala local government area of the state. The Commissioner of Police, CP Mohammed Usaini Gumel, confirmed the arrest while addressing newsmen during his on-the-spot assessment of...
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Idowu Owohunwa, said that some weapons, ballot boxes and sensitive materials snatched by some suspected thugs were recovered during the gubernatorial election in Lagos state. Owohunwa disclosed this on Saturday to newsmen after he rounded off his monitoring activities for the...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said that the Nigeria Police broke the law by declaring the Member of the House of Representatives from Bauchi State, Yakubu Shehu, wanted. NATIONAL ACCORD had reported that the Police had declared...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The police in Nasarawa State have arrested two suspected rapists who allegedly had unlawful canal knowledge of a 15-year old girl in the state. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Ramhan Nansel, confirmed the development in a statement issued to our...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Director General, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council in Bauchi State, Farouk Mustapha, has said that one person was killed during a campaign rally of the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Sadique Abubakar, at Duguri town, in Alkaleri Local Government Area,...
By BARBARA KALU, Abakaliki – The Police Ebonyi State have killed no fewer than three 3 gunmen and arrested two suspects in an operation in the state. The police also recovered two AK-47 riffle, one locally made pistol, one AK-47 magazine, 30 AK-47 live ammunition, 20 AK-47 expended ammunition...
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has directed the Commissioner of Police, Lagos, Idowu Owohunwa, to conduct a full investigation into the Akere fire incident and fish out the perpetrators. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, visited the scene of the midnight inferno that...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – The police authority in Zamfara State has confirmed the killing of SP Kazeem Raheem, the Maru Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Maru LGA of the state. The bandits also killed a Police Inspector, Rabi’u Umar, who was attached to the division. The police spokesman,...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The Lagos State Police Command has arrested six armed robbery suspects, who specialised in dispossessing unsuspecting residents of their valuables within Ajegunle and Alaba-Rago area. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Saturday. SP Hundeyin identified...
The Anti Cultism and Kidnapping Squad (ACKS) of the Police Command in Cross River has arrested a notorious kidnap kingpin, five years after he was declared wanted. The SP Ogini Chukwuma led ACKS, acting through intelligence, had stormed the hideout of the kingpin, Kufre Etim, also called Romance, where...
Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers has donated the sum of N70 million to families of the three slain police officers and one injured Officer at the Rumuokoro flyover bridge in Port Harcourt. Wike on Tuesday presented the cheque of N20 million to each widow of the three slain officers...
Police in Sokoto State say they are prosecuting at least 10 persons suspected to be political thugs. Police spokesman in the state, DSP Sanusi Abubakar stated in Sokoto on Monday that the arrest and prosecution of the suspects were in line with the directives of the Commissioner of Police,...
Suspected hoodlums on Monday attacked and destroyed Property of some PDP chieftains at Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River. A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who visited some of the affected houses reported that no live was lost. It was, however, observed that the houses suffered considerable...
The Police Command in Enugu State has nabbed two male suspects possessing, transacting and selling counterfeited redesigned N1,000 notes within a council area in Enugu State. The suspects were in possession of counterfeited 180 pieces of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) newly- redesigned N1,000 notes, with face value...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan – The Oyo State Police Police Command has uncovered plans by hoodlums to attack and loot banks, shopping mails, INEC offices and other facilities in the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Adewale Osifeso, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday in Ibadan....
The Police Command in Nasarawa State has confirmed the rescue of the remaining four abducted pupils of Local Government Education Authority (LGEA) Primary School Alwaza, Doma Local Government Area. DSP Ramhan Nansel, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state made the confirmation to newsmen on Friday in Lafia....