The Ekiti State Police Command has vowed to arrest the perpetrators of a bank robbery in the Ikere-Ekiti area of the state. Robbers had attacked two new-generation banks in Ikere-Ekiti yesterday evening, carting away an undisclosed amount of money with three persons feared killed. In a statement after the incidents, the police spokesman in the...
•New Lagos CP Adegoke The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered the posting of Commissioner of Police Fayoade Adegoke Mustapha to the Lagos State Police Command. Adegoke, who just graduated from the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos, is to take over from DCP Waheed Ayilara, who had heade...
The Enugu State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a young man who allegedly killed his mother, Mrs Charity Orji, and his sister, Miss Ukamaka Orji, and buried them in a shallow grave in their backyard in the state. The suspect, identified as Somadina Orji from Igboariam in Anambra State, was said to have […]
•Barracks Seven months after handing quit notice to 22,500 police officers living in the 25 barracks marked for demolition by the Lagos State government, the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is yet to effect payment of rent to the displaced officers seven months after the promise was made. The barracks had been recommended for demolition for [&helli...
The commissioner of police of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Haruna Garba, has warned against any form of disturbance of public peace, unlawful assembly, and criminal infiltration of lawful assembly in the nation’s capital. Garba gave the warning today Wednesday December 6, while confirming the arrest of five suspects in connection with ...
A police inspector has been arrested in Delta after allegedly shooting a motorist at Ekrerhavwe Junction in Agbarho, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. The unnamed inspector was arrested by the Delta State Police Command a day after the tragic shooting of the victim identified as Lucky while on stop-and-search duty. This was [...
•Sunday Ogwo Okpalle Standing tall at over six feet with a bulky build which gave away his years as a Two-Star Traffic Warden police officer, Sunday Ogwo Okpalle, now slightly bent, having lost the ramrod gait which accompanied his strides to ageing and perhaps lack of his regular routine as an officer of the law. […]
The residents of Santos, a suburb community in Lagos were yesterday agitated over the death of a yet-to-be-identified woman who was said to have been crushed by a truck in the Abule- Egba Area of Lagos. It was gathered that the police team was out to enforce the ban on commercial motorcycles in that axis […]
•CP Olatunji Disu The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of four operatives involved in the alleged adoption of hotel staff in Port Harcourt and consequently demanded a ransom to release him. The hotel staff simply identified as Darlington was reportedly arrested on his way to work at about 8 pm last Friday […]
The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested two suspects, Hassan Ismaila and Mohammed Sani, over the death of their relative who died as a result of starvation. The command said the suspects tied the hands and legs of one Sani over his alleged involvement in witchcraft, and kept him in a room for a long […]