Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki was forced out of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Benin, in the early hours of Sunday, by the Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG), Frank Mba. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mba is the officer in charge of the...
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Anambra State Police Command and the security Joint Task Force (JTF) have recovered three unexploded improvised explosives, two abandoned vehicles, some other dangerous materials from a camp raid in Ihiala. The command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the incident in a statement on Saturday in Onitsha. According...
Some residents of Benin City, Edo, have expressed worry over the heavy presence of security personnel particularly in the state capital, ahead of the Saturday governorship election. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who went round town on Friday to feel the pulse among Benin residents reports that...
Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Police Command in Lagos State have rescued a 59-year-old man from committing suicide on the Third Mainland Bridge. RRS made this known in a post it shared on its official X handle, @rrsLagos767, on Friday. According to the squad, the...
A 30-year-old man, Joseph Efe who was arrested for stealing from a commercial sex worker, said he committed the crime to raise money for his sister who has sickle cell anemia. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) FCT Commandant, Dr Olusola Odumosu while briefing the press on...
The Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested two women, Ujunwa Una and Chinelo Igbechionwu over alleged sales of newborn twins. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this in a post he shared on his X handle @benHundeyin on Friday. He said that the police apprehended...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) says it has identified 60 flash spots in Edo ahead of the Saturday’s Governorship Election in the state. Mr Gbenga Agun, the state Commandant of the NSCDC disclosed this on Friday in Benin during an interview with the News Agency of...
A prosecution witness, Mercy Osondu, on Thursday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how her step mother, Chinyere Osondu allegedly inserted a stick into her six-year-old niece’s private part. The defendant, Chinyere, is standing trial on a four-count charge bordering on sexual assault and grievous harm....
An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’Court sitting in Ibadan on Thursday remanded a woman, Olayinka Akinware, 35, and Tunji Adesina, 29, for allegedly unleashing four dogs on police to stop officers from arresting a suspect. The Magistrate, Mr. M. Mudashiru who did not take the plea of the suspects for want...
DIG Frank Mba, in charge of the police contingent for Edo Governorship Election, says the state command has raided black spots ahead of the September 21 Governorship Election. Mba said this at a news briefing on Wednesday in Benin, shortly after addressing the police personnel deployed for the poll....
The Police Command in Rivers has rescued a teenager, who was kidnapped in Enugu and transported to Port Harcourt in a ‘Ghana-Must-Go’ bag. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Olatunji Disu, announced this during a news conference in Port Harcourt on Wednesday. Disu said that the teenager,...
The Rivers Police Command has busted a job racketeering syndicate that allegedly specialises in advertising non-existent employment vacancies to defraud unsuspecting job seekers. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Olatunji Disu, disclosed this at a news conference in Port Harcourt on Tuesday. Disu said that operatives from the...
No fewer than 3 persons have been reported killed and many others kidnapped by bandits who attacked two churches at Bakinpah-Maro Community in the Kajuru Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State. Eyewitnesses according to Channels report, said that the incident occurred on Sunday morning when the bandits in...
The police command in Lagos State says a 54-year-old man, simply called Benjamin, has taken his life at the Agege area of the state. The Lagos State Police Spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. Hundeyin said that the...
The Police Command in Lagos State says it has detained a man (names withheld), for allegedly killing his neighbour and her son over environmental sanitation dispute in Lekki area of the state. The command Spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on....
With the September 21 Governorship Election in Edo State just days away, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun says quasi-security outfits won’t be allowed to intervene in election security in the South-South state. He stated this Sunday during the Edo Election Security Townhall, a programme organised by...
An unconfirmed number of students of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) have been trapped in the rubbles of a three-storey building located on Ekhator Street in Ekosodin, which collapsed on Saturday. The building is said to have been a popular student residential area in Benin occupied by the students...
The police have apprehended four persons in connection to the alleged gruesome murder of a female student of the Federal University Lokoja (FUL). The victim, a 17-year-old 100 Level Student of Biology Department of Federal University Lokoja was allegedly kidnapped and killed by a 21-year-old man. The Police Publc...
The Police Command in Ebonyi, says the explosion that claimed the lives of a couple, Mr and Mrs George Onuabuchi in Abakaliki, Ebonyi capital was from gas cylinder and not from inverter battery. DSP Joshua Ukandu, spokesman of the Command in the state told the News Agency of Nigeria...
The Police Command in Rivers has apprehended five suspects over the alleged killing of Chief Ndidi Livingstone, a former Community Development Committee (CDC) Chairman, Mgbuoshimini, Rumueme, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Disu Olatunji, told newsmen in Port Harcourt that after the killing, the command launched...