Gunmen have killed one customs officer and abducted another in an attack on a patrol base of the Nigeria Customs Service in Koko/Besse area of Kebbi State. According to Public Relations Officer, Kebbi Area Command, Mohammed Tajuddeen Salisu, the incident occurred on Thursday. In a statement, he said, “With deep regret, we announce a distressin...
A member of the Zamfara State House of Assembly, Aminu Ibrahim, who represents Kaura Namoda State Constituency, is in police custody over alleged banditry and kidnapping. The Commissioner of Police in the state, CP Muhammad Shehu Dalijan, confirmed the arrest of the lawmaker in an exclusive interview with our correspondent. He revealed also th...
•Police The Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Mr Adegoke Fayoade, has warned state residents against attacking protesters. Fayoade gave the warning while addressing traditional rulers and community leaders in Eti-Osa, Ibeju-Lekki, Epe and Lagos Island local government areas during a town hall meeting yesterday, reports NAN. There have bee...
•Commissioner of Police, Rivers State, Olatunji Disu The Rivers State Police Command says the state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has redeemed the N100m bounty on the head of a notorious cult leader, Gift Okpara, aka 2Baba, who alongside his gang members killed a Divisional Police Officer, Superintendent Bako Angbashin, in the Oduemude area of ...
•Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa has expressed concern that efforts being made by the military to end insecurity especially in the Northern part of the country has been frustrated by the judicial system, poor border management amongst other socio-economic challen...
•Troops A landmine exploded under a Nigerian military vehicle killing seven soldiers in a northeastern area where Islamic State-affiliated jihadists are active, anti-jihadist militia said yesterday. The soldiers were heading for Kukawa early Thursday when their vehicle drove over an improvised explosive device, two militia sources said. “All t...
A murder suspect, Kehinde Ganiyu, 50, has disclosed that he killed and used his sick friend’s throat for ritual soap in a bid to seek prosperity. He added that he visited his sick friend at Odebiyi’s compound, Oba-Oke in the Olorunda local government area of Osun State on Thursday July 18, 2024, and suddenly had […]
•Some suspected Yahoo boys In a bid to evade strategies deployed by law enforcement agencies to end their illegal activities, fraudsters, commonly known as ‘Yahoo boys’, who primarily exploit digital cyberspace to defraud unsuspecting members of the public of their hard-earned money, now resort to various shady means, including seeking spiritu...
•The suspect, Sulaimon Jimoh The Federal High Court, in Lagos, today, ordered the remand of an alleged drug baron, Sulaimon Jimoh, alias “Olowo Idi Ogede,” who was arrested on Monday, by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency. Justice Akintayo Aluko, made the remand order following an application by NDLEA, requesting that the suspect be rema...
•Shehu Sani A former federal lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has reacted to the alleged diversion of bags of rice meant for the poor in Katsina State. On Wednesday night, operatives of the Katsina State Command of the Department of the State Services (DSS), recovered 2,000 bags of rice out of the 20 trucks donated to the […]
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