Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have ambushed a monitoring team of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). The attack occurred on Monday, in the Farin-Kasa area of Chukun Local Government Area, Kaduna State when the operatives were inspecting the National Grid installation in Shiroro, Niger State, reports Channels TV. Disclosing ...
•Adebutu The Ogun State Police Command has invited Ladi Adebutu, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in 2023 elections, to its headquarters in Abeokuta. This invitation is unconnected with the alleged disturbances during the local government elections held on November 16, 2024, in which the All Progressives Congress won a...
•Nigerian soldiers The 6 Brigade of the Nigerian Army/Sector 3 Operation Whirl Stroke has apprehended a 73-year-old suspected bandit informant, Alhaji Buba Maru, in Bakin Dutse, Ardo-Kola Local Government Area of Taraba. The Acting Assistant Director, 6 Brigade Army Public Relations, Captain Olubodunde Oni, disclosed this today in a statement ...
•Commissioner Auwal Danladi Sankara Nasiru Buba, the man who accused Jigawa Commissioner for Special Duties, Auwal Danladi Sankara, of having illicit affair with his wife, has rejected the verdict of the Sharia Court which absolved the politician of wrongdoing. It was earlier reported that a Kano Upper Shari’a Court dismissed the adultery case...
•Troops The Osun State Park Management System has accused the police of shooting its chairman, Nurudeen Iyanda, popularly known as Alowonle, while in custody. In a statement issued by the group’s Secretary, Mukaila Popoola, it was alleged that Iyanda was shot in the early hours of today after being arrested over a domestic issue, reports [&hel...
•Tompolo Amid celebrations of Nigeria’s increased crude oil production reaching 1.8 million barrels per day, the Chairman of Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo, has expressed concern over a recent confrontation between his security team and Nigerian Navy personnel in Port Harcourt...
•Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has strongly condemned the attack on the motorcade of fellow House member, Ginger Onwusibe, in Abia State, which tragically claimed the life of a security aide. In a statement issued late yesterday by his Chief Press Secr...
•IGP Kayode Egbetokun Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has urged Nigerians to refrain from using social media to report the conduct of police officers and instead direct such complaints to the Police Complaints Response Unit. Speaking at the PPROs/Police Communication Experts’ Conference in Asaba, Delta State, yesterday, the IG e...
•Ola Olukoyede The Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, says no mega financial fraud, especially illicit financial flows, is possible without lawyers’ support. Olukoyede stated this during the opening of the 6th Annual Criminal Law Review Conference in Abuja, reports NAN. The 5-day event is titled: “Optimis...
•Gunmen Four persons have reportedly lost their lives as yet-to-be-identified gunmen opened fire on some residents and security operatives in the communities, in a fatal attack at Ukpo, Dunukofia Local Government Area and Abatete, in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State today, reports Channels TV. According to eyewitnesses, the...

