Operatives of a neighbourhood security outfit, Oluyole Security Network have arrested a bricklayer and an operator of a commercial motorcycle otherwise called okada for allegedly raping and impregnating a 14-year-old teenager in Ibadan, Oyo. One of the suspects, Sodeeq Ojediran, admitted forcibly sleeping with the girl. According to report, th...
A fresh tragedy has hit the nation’s security community following the killing of six policemen in an ambush in Delta State. Six other officers are still missing, the Nigeria Police confirmed yesterday. It comes as the country remains in shock over the March 14 killing of 18 army officers and men by some youths in […]
•Gunmen Scores are feared killed as gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents stormed into Garkida, Community, a town in Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa state, in the late hours of last night. The gunmen were reported to have been shooting sparodically at the unsuspecting residents of the town, reports Saturday Sun. Locals told [&hel...
•Police operatives on duty As talks for the creation of state police gain momentum to curtail the menacing trend of kidnapping, banditry, terrorism and sundry security challenges ubiquitous in the country, social commentator Joe Abah says there should be checks and balancing to prevent the abuse of state police by some governors whom he descri...
For 10 days, the nation is understandably simmering over the butchery of 17 officers and personnel of the Nigerian Army, who journeyed on a peace mission to Okuama, an Urhobo community in Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, on March 14. The subsequent discovery that the heartless killers beheaded some of the soldiers and [&hellip...
•Atiku Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has condemned the recent attack that led to the killing of a village head and other residents of Rafi Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State. It was earlier reported how at least 21 people including the village head lost their lives on Thursday afternoon when bandits in their numbers […]
•Maj Gen Olarenwaju (rtd) The Ijaw Youths Network yesterday faulted a former Minister of Defence, Maj Gen Tajudeen Olarenwaju, on the grisly murder of 16 personnel of the Nigerian Army by Okuama youths on March 14, 2024 over alleged land dispute. In reacting to the killings which shocked the entire country, according to the IYN, […]
Troops of the Nigerian Military conducting search and rescue operations in Okuoma community in Ughelli LGA for the killers of 18 officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army, have recovered the “decomposing hearts of some of the killed soldiers” while the manhunt continues. Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba who made...
•The suspects The Lagos State Police Command apprehended two undergraduate companions who orchestrated a fake kidnapping scheme to extort money from their parents. The suspects, 21-year-old Balogun Ayodele, a second-year student at Lagos State University of Education, Ijanikin, and Okuomo Dennis, also 21 years old and a student at the National...
•Bandits Armed Bandits numbering well over 50 yesterday invaded a village market in Madaka community, Rafi local government area of Niger State and killed no fewer than 21 persons in one of the brutal attacks in recent time. Also killed is the village of Madaka whose name was not immediately known as at the time […]
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