Police

IT was a bloody weekend in parts of Benue State, following the killing of over 46 persons by rampaging armed herdsmen in two separate attacks on communities in Apa and Gwer West Local Government areas of the state. This came as no fewer…

The Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, has dismissed as false insinuations in some quarters that its National President, Emeka Rollas, was arrested and detained by the police in Umuahia, the Abia State capital. It was reported that Rollas was…

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Hakeem Odumosu, has charged the 48 Yoruba Nation Protesters arrested on Saturday 3rd July, 2021 in Ojota, Lagos before a Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba. In a statement by the…

The Police Command in Kebbi on Saturday confirmed that bandits killed 88 people in Danko/Wasagu Local Area of the state on Thursday. The command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Nafi’u Abubakar who confirmed the figure, said all…

No fewer than 13 travellers who were kidnapped in Ahor around the bypass have been rescued by the police in Edo State. Their rescue was as a result of the combined efforts of the police and the vigilante in the area. A set…

The Anti Illegal Mining Squad of the Police in Zamfara says at least 18 people who engaged in illegal mining in spite of presidential order banning the activity have been arrested and prosecuted. The spokesman of the police in…

The Department of State Security and the Nigeria Police Force were on Monday asked to arrest those behind the operations of a pirate radio claiming to be ‘Radio Biafra’. The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) gave the…

‎A former governor of Imo State, Rochas O‎korocha has said he was released from police custody after the Presidency's intervened in the matter. Okorocha was arrested by the police in Owerri, Imo State capital, on Sunday after…

Incessant terrorist attacks have forced residents of four local governments in Borno to flee into Yobe communities, the police authorities have revealed. The local governments, according to Yobe State Police Command are Gubio,…

The Oyo State Police Command on Tuesday said yet-to-be identified hoodlums were behind the burning of the house of Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Igboho. The police said it received a report that the hoodlums loaded in a bus and taxi…