The Olabisi Onabanjo University’s Students’ Union Government has accused officers of the Nigerian Police Force of assaulting their leaders and firing shots at unarmed students during a protest at the Oru-Ijebu Police Station in Ogun State. The Ogun State Police Command had denied the allegations in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Oluse...
•New Bauchi State Police commissioner, Sani-Omolori Aliyu The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested a 28-year-old Almajiri teacher, Lawal Nasiru, of Unguwar Jarmai in Darazo Local Government Area, for allegedly assaulting one of his pupils. The victim, identified as 11-year-old Sa’id Sani, an Almajiri attached to Nasiru’s Tsangaya School, w...
A viral video making the rounds online has shown officers of the Nigeria Police Force assaulting an unidentified young man. The video, shared by X user Somto Okonkwo who identifies as #General_Somto, shows the moment the victim is harassed and hit by uniformed personnel, reports The PUNCH. In response, the Police Complaint Response Unit (NPF-C...
•Joey Barton Former Manchester City footballer Joey Barton was yesterday given a 12-week suspended prison sentence after being found guilty of assaulting his wife by kicking her in the head at their family home. The former midfielder left Georgia Barton, 38, with a lump on her forehead and a bleeding nose after the incident in […]
The Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri, in Imo State, suspended a facilitator, Mr. Okoroafor Ifeanyichukwu, from duty today after he was seen in a viral video assaulting a male student. The suspension notice, issued in a letter with reference FPN/TEDC/80/1 and dated March 14, 2025, stated, “You are hereby suspended from duty as a facilitator i...
•Macdonald An hotelier and Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Leuven Empire Hotel and Suites, Ejigbo, Lagos, simply identified as Macdonald, has been arrested and paraded by the Zone 2 Police Command for allegedly sodomising a 16-year-old secondary school boy. The suspect denied using the boy for rituals but admitted to having se...
A 44-year-old private security guard, Damilola Otegba, has been arrested for allegedly attempting to engage in unlawful activities with a six-year-old girl at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) campus. According to a statement by the Ogun State Police Command Spokesperson, CSP Omolola Odutola, the suspect took the minor t...
•Ikwechegh The Nigerian Police Force is set to arraign a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Alex Mascot Ikwechegh, in court for allegedly assaulting a bolt driver at his Abuja residence. The lawmaker, who is representing Aba North and South federal constituency of Abia State, is expected to take his plea before an Abuja […]
•The assaulted Bolt driver and the federal lawmaker The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested a lawmaker for assaulting a driver in the nation’s capital. The Frontier had earlier published a lead story of the inhuman action of the House of Representatives member and the reaction of Nigerians. •The arrested federal lawmake...
A retired Upper Sharia Court judge, Mahmud Shehu, today, Tuesday, September 10, 2024, was docked in a Magistrates’ Court, in Zaria, Kaduna, for allegedly assaulting a visually impaired housewife. The prosecutor, Insp. Adamu Abubakar, told the court today in Zaria that the defendant was charged with trespass and assault, reports NAN. Offence, h...
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