•Late Taiwo Oyekanmi The Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alamutu, said those behind yesterday’s murder of the Director of Finance in Governor Dapo Abiodun’s office, Mr. Taiwo Oyekanmi, are in-house. Oyekanmi was gunned down while returning from the bank where he had taken a bullion van to withdraw some funds for the state. In [&hell...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, adjourned till tomorrow, to hear the application option by a man in the custody of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Mr. Obiora Samuel, seeking to enforce his right to freedom. Samuel, in the court paper, told the court that he has been in the anti-narcotics […]
•Police officers The Niger State Police Command has arrested a 51-year-old woman, Blessing Jeremiah, for stealing a three-year-old girl-child in Niger State and attempting to transport her to a buyer who had paid her N530,000. The suspect, who was said to have stolen the child from her parents in the Tudun-Natsira area of Minna was […]...
A staff member of Dangote Refinery identified as Joseph Ameh has died after being hit by a vehicle in a hit-and-run accident in the Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos state on Thursday. It was gathered that the victim was walking along Golf Bustop along Lekki Epe Expressway when the yet-to-be-identified driver rammed into him and […]
•Hassan Kolawole The Police in Oyo State, yesterday, paraded a 45-year-old suspected ritualist identified as Hassan Kolawole with a fresh human head in Ibadan, the state capital. Kolawole was paraded by the state Commissioner of Police, Adebola Hamzat, at the command headquarters, Eleyele alongside nine others who were arrested for various cri...
•Bandits The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Supervising Presiding Officer (SPO) assigned to registration area 06 in Ossioma, Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, has been abducted. The INEC official, whose identity was not known as at the time of filling this report was abducted at Amassoma Community in Southern Ij...
•Terrorists Kaduna villagers are now being forced by bandits terrorising their communities to pay levies before being allowed to harvest crops from their farms in the state. The affected farmers are from Kidandan and Galadima villages, while those from Angular Fala’u and Kerawa villages are constantly harassed and kidnapped while working on th...
•Fulani herdsmen Bandits suspected to be Fulani herdsmen have attacked a coaster school bus belonging to a Catholic school, St Paul’s College, Eke, in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State, killing a female student. The bandits, suspected to be perpetrators of kidnapping activities in the area, also left several other students with severe b...
•IGP Kayode Egbetokun The Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has ordered the posting and redeployment of 40 senior police officers comprising 14 Assistant Inspectors General of Police and 26 Commissioners of Police to various commands and formations in the country. The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a ...
Five infants among the 17 villagers abducted by bandits a month ago in Anguwar Danlele and Anguwar Bawa villages, located within the Randagi ward of the Birnin Gwari Local Government Area have died in captivity. It could be recalled that on October 7, 17 villagers, including the infants’ mothers, were taken into the bush by […]

