•Police operatives The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has reiterated its ban on the participation of the Amotekun Corps and other non-state security groups in security operations for the Osun State Governorship Election. The Force also announced a restriction on movement across the state from midnight yesterday, Friday, August 14, 2026, to 6:00 p....
•Amotekun operatives The Ondo State Security Network Agency, also known as the Amotekun Corps, has arrested 28 persons allegedly involved in various criminal activities across the state. Among the suspects are a 56-year-old man identified as Iliasu and his three sons — Usman, 33; Wahab, 27; and Yakubu, 18 — who were arrested over the […...
•Amotekun Corps The Oyo State Security Network Agency, also known as the Amotekun Corps, has condemned what it described as a “Gestapo-style” abduction of one of its operatives, Amo. Saheed Ajibola, by suspected officers of the Nigeria Police Force from Zone 11. The Corps said Ajibola, who was lawfully deployed to a static patrol duty [&hellip...
A woman, Sherifatu, has approached Grade A Customary Court, Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, seeking that her union with her husband, Adelani, be dissolved on the grounds of irresponsibility, lack of love and care, and constant fighting by the latter. Sherifat told the court that Adelani cared less about her welfare and that of their children, [&helli...
•Embattled IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu in court The second prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Nnamdi Kanu has told Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja that the Eastern Security Network (ESN), established by Kanu, is an illegal group, unlike Amotekun, which is backed by law. Testifying under the codename “BBB”, [&hel...
•Amotekun operatives The Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun has authorised the recruitment of additional 500 personnel for the Ogun State Security Network Agency popularly called Amotekun Corps. The State Commander of the Corps, Brigadier General Alade Adedigba (retd.), said in a statement today that the move is aimed at bolstering the secur...
•Amotekun Corps The Amotekun Corps has mobilised over 2,000 personnel to flush out bandits and other criminals operating in forests in the South-West region. Ogun and Osun states top the list with targeted 1,000 recruits each, while Oyo recruited 480 men last October as part of efforts to curtail the influx of bandits, reports The […]
Men of the Ondo State Security Network, Amotekun have arrested seven members of a nuclear family who specialise in breaking into shops and houses and stealing food items. The suspects who included the father, mother and their five children were apprehended for allegedly stealing bags of rice from an orphanage around Shagari village in Akure [&...
•Amotekun Corps The Osun State House of Assembly today confirmed the appointments of Wale Abbas as the chairman, Osun Amotekun Board and Adekunle Omoyele as the Corps Commander respectively. The confirmations followed the nomination of Abbas and Omoyele by the state governor, Ademola Adeleke, on July 5. The governor had forwarded their names t...
•Armed Fulani herdsman Herdsmen have injured persons including, operatives of the Ondo State Security Network in Akure North Local Government Area. The attack took place today while Amotekun personnel were trying to enforce the anti-open grazing law in at Igoba, along Ado Road, reports The Nation. They were moving away cows grazing on a farm [...
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