By OLA MUDOPE, Ado-Ekiti – Police operatives alongside other security outfits in Ekiti State have embarked on a rescue mission to secure the release of a popular trader, Alhaja Nusirat Saliu, who was abducted by gunmen on Saturday in Iyemero-Ekiti. The state’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Sunday...
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By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Security operatives have repelled an attack by armed bandits in Sabon Tasha in Chikun Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State, in the early hours of Saturday, Dec. 11. The state police spokesman, ASP Mohammed Jalige, revealed this in a statement issued on Saturday...
The Imo State Police Command have rescued the kidnapped Eze Damian Nwaigwe, the traditional ruler of Mbutu in Aboh-Mbaise council area unhurt. The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, CSP Michael Abattam, who disclosed this in a statement issued in Owerri on Saturday, said that the traditional ruler...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Government has said that a total of 4,104 cases of Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) have been recorded in the state between six months (January – July, 2021). The state government also said the non availability of gender desk in most...
No fewer than eight persons have been abducted by armed men in the Kwali Area Council of Abuja. Also, one person was shot dead in a two-day invasion. According to residents, the armed men operated on Tuesday and Wednesday nights in the area. A resident, who does not want...
By MARY RONKE, Minna – Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed nine worshipers and injured six others in an attack on a mosque at Tungan Ba’are village in Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger State. It was learnt that the incident occured in the early hours of Thursday,...
The Katsina State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Dr. Rabe Nasir, has been killed by gunmen. A top government official who craved anonymity confirmed the incident to newsmen in Katsina on Thursday. According to the source, the commissioner was assassinated on Wednesday night in his residence located at GRA...
By OLA MUDOPE, Abeokuta – Operatives of Ogun State Police Command have arrested a suspected notorious serial killer, Ibiyemi Wasiri who has been on the wanted list of the command in connection with two murder cases. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi disclosed this in...
Malawi police have arrested a former finance minister and an ex-central bank chief for fabricating figures in a bid to impress the IMF, they said on Wednesday. Joseph Mwanamveka, 57, and Reserve Bank of Malawi former governor, Dalitso Kabambe, 48, are accused of having cooked up numbers to secure...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL,Sokoto Sokoto State Government has commiserated with victims of terrorists attack in Gidan Bawa Town, where armed bandits were said to have burnt a vehicle conveying passengers from Sabon Birni enroute other region of the country. The state government, however, debunked reports by several media platforms that...
Four students of Delta State University (DELSU) and five others abducted on Saturday, have regained their freedom. Spokesman of the Police Command in the state, DSP Bright Edafe, who confirmed the release of the abductees to newsmen in Warri on Wednesday, said they were kidnapped on the Abraka-Eku Road...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL,Sokoto Suspected terrorists otherwise called bandits has burnt scores of passengers traveling from Sabon Birni Local Government Area to Sokoto Town. NATIONAL ACCORD gathered that the incident occured in the early hours of Tuesday around Gidan Bawa village, where the bandits blocked the road and set the...
Aggrieved youths on Tuesday razed a building belonging to a pastor attached to the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Adebun Area of Ado-Ekiti over a missing seven-year-old girl. NAN gathered that the lifeless body of the girl, identified as Demilade, was allegedly found in the pastor’s house....
Police in the city of Wuzhong, northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, have dismantled a money-laundering ring connected to more than 200 telecom and online fraud cases. According to the Police, more than 40 suspects were arrested in a raid on Dec. 3. The local police began investigation in...
A Kenyan police officer on Tuesday shot dead six people, including his wife, and wounded two others before turning the gun on himself, police said. The rampage in the capital Nairobi triggered protests by angry residents who blocked the road with burning tyres. Police said the AK-47-rifle-wielding officer first...
An Ado Ekiti High Court on Monday sentenced 24-year-old Ebenezer Olorunleke to death by hanging for killing his own brother. Justice Bamidele Omotoso said the prosecution had discharged the burden on Olorunleke Ebenezer and established beyond reasonable doubt the defendant was guilty as charged. “The sentence of the count...
The Police in Lagos on Sunday confirmed the death of eight children who mistakenly locked themselves in an abandoned car while playing at Adelayo Str., Agunlayo, Jah Micheal, near Magbon area of Badagry. The Spokensman for the Lagos Police Command, Mr Adekunle Ajisebutu, in a statement, said the incident...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – The police authority in Osun State has arrested one of its sergeant for allegedly shooting to death a driver at Kobogbogboe/Ota-efun Area of Osogbo on Friday. The command’s spokesman, SP Yemisi Opalola, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Sunday in Osogbo....
The Lagos State Police Command has commenced an investigation into the death of one Sylvester Oromoni of Dowen College, Lekki Area of the state. A statement issued by the command’s spokesman, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said that although no formal report had been made to it, the Commissioner of Police,...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed at least two persons and abducted over 20 people in Unguwan Gimbiya community in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. It was learnt that the armed bandits stormed the community in the early hours of Friday....