•Police The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun has directed the continuation of the police barricade on local government secretariats in Rivers State to prevent a breakdown of law and order. IGP Egbetokun gave the directive while fielding questions from journalists in Abuja on the sideline of a Conference with Commissioners of ...
•Ooni and his self-acclaimed son The palace of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, yesterday, disowned a claim by a man in a viral video, who said the monarch was his father. A statement by the monarch’s spokesperson, Moses Olafare, said the man in the viral video engaged in an act of impersonation, noting […]
The federal government has said mandatory registration of Point-of-Sales operators nationwide will reduce kidnapping and help security agencies arrest recipients of ransom payments from kidnap victims. It also vowed that security agencies would go after PoS operators who fail to comply with the directive to register with the Corporate Affairs ...
The Anambra State Police Command has dismissed the claims that 21 soldiers were killed by gunmen in the state. There have been reports across social media since Tuesday saying that 21 soldiers who were on their way to Enugu State were rounded up and killed in Onitsha, Anambra State, on Monday evening. But while reacting […]
Operatives of the Ogun Police Command, yesterday, engaged suspected kidnappers terrorising travellers on Sagamu Ijebu-Ode-Benin expressway in a gun battle, killing two of them. The police also rescued three Indians and recovered a total sum of N7.9m and 1500 Indian Rupees, suspected to have been part of the ransom collected from victims, repor...
Police authorities in Delta State have denied attacking protesting women in Ughelli, Delta State yesterday. The clarification came following reports that the police had shot at women from Oteri-Ughelli in the Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state who were protesting against alleged incessant harassment and extortion by policemen in ...
One middle-aged woman was shot while many others sustained varied degrees of injury in Ughelli yesterday as operatives of the Delta State Police Command resorted to forceful dispersal of a group of protesting women. The women from Oteri-Ughelli in the Ughelli North Local Government Area were protesting against alleged incessant harassment and ...
•IPOB Southeast governments and the police yesterday urged residents to disregard the sit-at-home call by the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The group had declared May 30 a sit-at-home day to honour those who fought in the civil war, reports The Nation. Enugu State government reiterated Governor Peter Mbah’s strong commitm...
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has arrested the suspected mastermind of the Abuja-Kaduna train attack Ibrahim Abdullahi also known as Mande. The attack happened in March 2022 but at a news conference in Kaduna today, the Force Public Relations Officer Olumuyiwa Adejobi said the suspect was arrested at the Abuja-Kaduna Road flyover by Rido Junc...
•Okuama residents living in the forest Before the March 14, 2024 killing of 17 soldiers and an unspecified number of villagers at Okuama in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, residents lived under the bondage of a militant gang that stalked, terrorized and put their victims six feet under without trial. Interconnected with [&h...

