•Commercial sex workers More than 30 suspected commercial sex workers have been arrested in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, following security concerns and the discovery of suspected illicit drugs at an unapproved building operating as a guest house. The arrests were made yesterday during a joint enforcement operation led by the Commissio...
•US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, Michael Gonzales The United States has warned that Mexican drug cartels are increasingly looking to Africa as an alternative route for trafficking synthetic drugs, after the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency dismantled four methamphetamine laboratories ...
•Policemen The Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill has completed the drafting stage of its assignment and has formally submitted the draft National Policing Bill (2026), together with twenty-nine (29) consequential amendment bills, to the Federal Ministry of Justice for legislative drafting review and validation. The submi...
Ogun State House of Assembly today passed a resolution supporting the consideration of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Sixth Alteration) Bill, 2026, on the establishment of State Police Services. The House passed the resolution, titled: “H.R. No. 194/OG/2025- Consideration of the Constitution of the Federal Republic o...
•The suspects The Department of State Services (DSS), today in Imo State, arraigned three persons accused of the Independence day kidnapping of 20 prospective Youth Corps members in the state. Also arraigned were two other persons accused of kidnapping four persons in the state, four days after the Independence Day abduction, reports Daily Tru...
•Commissioner of Police, Ogun State, Olubode Ojajuni A man identified as Taiwo Saheed was allegedly murdered by suspected cultists in the Atan area of Ogun State, with footage of the killing circulating on social media. It was learnt from eyewitness accounts and a video of the incident yesterday that the killing, which occurred on Thursday, [&...
•Jordan, EFCC operative and Nyesom Wike Two firms have petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the alleged role of Jordan Nyesom-Wike, son of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in a disputed $2.1 million land transaction. The petitioners, Safwan Garba GY and GY Global Oil & Gas Nigeria Limited,...
•Rev. Fr. John Otache The Benue State Police Command has rescued eight kidnap victims, including the Catholic priest of Otukpo Diocese, Rev. Fr. John Otache. The Command’s spokesperson, Peter Aondongu, stated this in a release issued today and made available to journalists in Makurdi, the state capital. According to the statement, two suspects...
•Embattled former Governor El-Rufai and ICPC operative Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory High Court has dismissed a ₦120 million fundamental rights suit instituted by a former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, against the Department of State Services (DSS) and three others. In a judgment, Justice Oriji dismissed ...
•Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo and Kogi map The Kogi State government says there is a strong link between banditry and mining in the state, adding that over 80 per cent of the crimes witnessed in the North-Central state are fuelled by mining activities. “There is a very strong link between banditry and mining in […]
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