The Enugu State Police Command has announced the arrest and detention of a Police Inspector serving in the Anti-Cultism Tactical Squad of the Command for alleged murder of a male traditional Ogene musician, Okezie Mba, popularly known as Igbo-Jah. The Command’s spokesperson DSP Daniel Ndukwe in a statement made available to our Correspondent t...
•Smuggled goods Kebbi State Customs Command has in the third quarter of this year impounded smuggle goods worth N323.06 million from smugglers, just as the command generated N36.25 million revenue in the same quarter of the year under review. Comptroller of Customs, Kebbi State Command, Iheanacho Ernest Ojike while briefing journalist at a pre...
•Mohammed Badaru Abubakar The Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has charged the Nigerian Air Force to intensify efforts to dominate the airspace and end insecurity in Nigeria, particularly in the North-West region, saying, “Please, end insecurity now.” During a visit to the Headquarters 213 NAF Forward Operating Base in Katsina St...
The Defence Headquarters has detained a naval rating identified as A. Akila for allegedly killing his colleague. Akila, deployed to Forward Operating Base Dansadua for Operation Fansan Yamma, is said to have killed his colleague under questionable circumstances, reports The PUNCH. The incident reportedly occurred in the early hours of today in...
•Adewunmi Taiwo A suspect, Mr. Adewunmi Taiwo, 45, arrested by men of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, for impersonating an officer of the agency has confessed how he made at least N750,000 in a month from unsuspecting motorists caught over traffic offences. The suspect, who was arrested on Oshodi Bridge in a sting [&helli...
A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Akure, Ondo state capital, has ordered the demand of a middle-aged man, Sunday Emmanuel, to Segede Correctional facility for allegedly macheted his wife, Linda to death. The accused was also alleged to have macheted his three-year-old son on the head, with the intent to kill him, reports Nigerian Tribune. [&...
•NSCDC vs Police Condemnation has trailed the beating and detention of a officer of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) by policemen in Osun for preventing them from allegedly invading an estate without arrest warrant and means of identification. It was gathered that policemen in mufti attempted to invade Elizabeth Estate via Osun...
•Former Kogi governor, Yahaya Bello Justice Maryann Anenih of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja, today, adjourned till November 14, for arraignment of the defendants and response to the summon issued by the Court for the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello. He is to appear before it for arraignment [&he...
•Tinubu National Union of Police Retirees, Kaduna State chapter has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to give out an executive order bill to exit the retirees from the contributory Pension Scheme. This was contained in an open letter to the president signed by the chairman of the police retirees, Kaduna State chapter, Ret. CSP Mannir […...
A 41-year-old Canadian national, Adrienne Munju was today October 23, 2024 convicted and sentenced to 11 years imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Lagos for importing 74 parcels of Canadian Loud, a strong strain of synthetic cannabis weighing 35.20 kilograms into Nigeria. A statement by Femi Babafemi, Spokesman of NDLEA said Munju’s convic...

