•Gunman A police inspector attached to the Ekiadolor Area Command has been shot dead by gunmen who opened fire during a routine stop-and-search operation in Benin, the Edo capital. CSP Moses Yamu, spokesperson of the Edo Police Command, confirmed this via a statement in Benin. Yamu said the incident occurred at about 12pm yesterday when [&hell...
•IGP Kayode Egbetokun A disturbing incident has sparked widespread outrage in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, after a police inspector brutally assaulted his three children over allegations of witchcraft. The incident, which occurred weekend, has led to the arrest of the accused police inspector, simply identified as John, attached to the ...
•A truck loaded with rice A police inspector, Afolabi Adeola, was reportedly killed after he was hit by a truck at a checkpoint along the Abeokuta–Sagamu Motorway in Ogun State. Our correspondent learnt yesterday that the incident occurred on Sunday, around 12:30 p.m. near the Judiciary Complex checkpoint in Abeokuta, reports The PUNCH. The tr...
•Armed Fulani herdsmen Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen have killed a police inspector, Yakubu Dauda, and seized his rifle in the Chwelnyap Rim community of Riyom Local Government Area, Plateau State. Also in Rivers State, rampaging cultists have killed a police corporal identified as Francis Friday and a member of a vigilante group, OSP...
The Anambra State Police Command has been thrown into mourning following the tragic death of one of its officers, Inspector Okolie Amechi, who was reportedly shot by his 10-year-old son with an AK-47 rifle in Awka, the state capital. According to a statement released today by the State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, [&hel...
A Police Inspector, one Effiong Bassey, ran amok yesterday, shooting indiscriminately, killing one civilian identified as Mrs. Ijoema Obot and injuring two others in Calabar, Cross River State capital. The incident, it was learnt, occurred about 6a.m. when the policeman who went to night beat at a Microfinance Bank in Calabar South returned to...
Lagos State Taskforce on the Environment and Other Related Offences, popularly known as Task Force has narrated how one of its personnel, Inspector Saka Ganiu, was killed by a soldier. The Nigerian Army has already begun investigations into the incident, while the killer soldier has also been arrested, reports Nigerian Tribune. The deceased po...
A police inspector attached to the Police Mobile Force (PMF), 41 Division, Damaturu in Yobe State, has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a suspected drug dealer to death over a N200 bribe. The incident happened at CMC Area, Zango, Damaturu, where the inspector, Mohammed Bulama, and the deceased Abdulmalik Pompomari, fought, reports Daily Tr...
A serving police inspector, identified as Hussaini Umar, has been reportedly murdered by some suspected members of a ‘one chance’syndicate in Abuja. The deceased, said to be attached to the Force Intelligence Bureau (FID), had reportedly boarded the gang’s vehicle from Maitama Junction in the city centre to his home in Dei-Dei community, FCT, ...
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