An officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has died as a result of the bombing of three power transmission towers by terrorists along Maiduguri-Damaturu, the Transmission Company of Nigeria announced yesterday. The General Manager of Public Affairs, TCN, Ndidi Mbah, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja, adding that the...
•Gunmen At least four people have been killed, while 39 others have been kidnapped by bandits who invaded Kuduru, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The bandits also invaded Garam and Azu, two communities Niger State. Last Saturday, December 23, bandits invaded Garam community, which is five minutes drive from Bw...
•Solomon Arase The Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Solomon Arase, says the Special Police Constabulary needs to either be outright overhauled, disbanded or given a separate uniform different from that of the regular policemen. According to him, men of the Special Police Constabulary engage in unethical practices, including extorting...
•Gunmen No fewer than two policemen were allegedly killed and many were kidnapped yesterday Thursday, December 29, as gunmen returned to Anambra State to cause mayhem. A resident of the Uga community in the Aguata Local Government Area had raised the alarm, calling on security agencies and the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo to save [&he...
The biggest battle the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) faced in the outgoing year is vandalism, its Managing Director Fidet Okhiria has said. Okhiria, who stated this while addressing reporters in Lagos, said over 50,000 clips used to stabilise the rail slippers were stolen from the Lagos-Ibadan Standard gauge Train Service (LITS) in the ye...
•Attack victims The UN human rights chief said today he was “deeply alarmed” by the string of attacks on villages in central Nigeria, which left nearly 200 dead, according to local authorities. Armed groups launched attacks between Saturday evening and Tuesday morning in Nigeria’s Plateau State, a region plagued for several years by religious ...
•Police The Kano State Police Command has arrested nine suspects who specialised in interstate trafficking, abduction, buying and selling of minors. The state Commissioner of Police, Usaini Gumel, disclosed this while parading the suspects at the Bompai command’s headquarters today. He explained that the suspects were apprehended after conduct...
Child Rights Advocacy groups in Bayelsa State have kicked against the Boxing Day traditional marriage between a four- year- old girl and a 54 years old man at Akeddei community in Sagbama Local Government Area. The groups including foremost Child Rights group, Do Foundation, described the marriage as illegal, criminal and violation of the Chil...
•James Nwakanma and CP Adegoke Fayoade James Nwakanma, the popular on air personality at Melody FM 107.7 based in Lagos, has on the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Adegoke Fayoade, to rid Agege of street urchins who harass and extort Nigerians in the area, especially those that operate close to the railway crossing. He made […]
The 7 Division of the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri has confirmed the arrest of a soldier for allegedly killing a truck driver at a checkpoint along Maiduguri -Dikwa-Gamboru Road. The incident allegedly occurred following a misunderstanding between the soldier and the truck driver at the checkpoint, reports NAN. The incident, which occurred on Bo...
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