CRIME
Northern Governors Backs Creation Of State Police Over Rising Insecurity
Northern governors yesterday warned that the region stood on the brink of losing its future to escalating insecurity and deepening poverty, unless leaders took urgent, decisive action. They also called for state police as a way out of the high level insecurity in the north, and asked for a 6-month ban on mining in the region. This is even as Kaduna...
Abba Kyari Rejects Prison Food, Inmates Excited By Ex-IRT Boss Presence
The embattled former Commander, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, has rejected food offered him by the Nigerian Correctional Service after being remanded in prison custody on Monday. The suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, it was learnt, opted for the food prepared by his wife or other family members. Kyari, who is under prosecution for drug trafficking alongside four other policemen, was...
EFCC Nabs Access Bank Staff Over Alleged ₦34m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a staff of Access Bank, Lagos State branch, Elizabeth Modupe Osunjuyigbe for an alleged fraudulent diversion of funds to the tune of over ₦34m. In a statement issued on Friday by EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, the suspect was quizzed by Lagos zonal office of the anti-graft agency. “The suspect, who was arrested...
Unknown Gunmen Strike At Abagana, Hoist Flag, Destroy Vehicles (Photos)
Unknown Gunmen today, Thursday, 15th April, 2021, struck at the First Bank Plc, Abagana in Anambra state where they shot sporadically into the air, dispersing bank customers and passersby, ABN TV reports. The gunmen, numbering about ten, who drove in black Honda Pilot Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV), equally hoisted Biafran flag at the gate of the bank, set...
ISWAP Fighters Invade Borno Police Station, Kill Officers
At least four policemen were killed and cache of ammunition carted away when suspected fighters of Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacked a police station in Nganzai Local Government Area of Borno State. ISWAP fighters reportedly stormed the police station at Gajiram town, Nganzai LGA and opened fire on the policemen on duty. According to security sources, the invaders...
Arewa Consultative Forum Dismisses Chairman As Afenifere, Others Back President
The Arewa Consultative Forum suspended its chairman, Mamman Osuman, over criticism of President Bola Tinubu’s policies The ACF, in a statement, added that the interests of the North would be best represented by northerners. However, Yoruba socio-political Afenifere, Igbo socio-cultural body Ohanaeze Ndigbo and other regional groups backed the President insisting his predecessor Muhammadu Buhari laid the marker for the hardship...
US, Issues Security Alert To Citizens, Cautions Against Non-Essential Movement To Abuja
The United States Mission in Nigeria has issued a security alert over the risk of terror attacks in Nigeria, especially in the Federal Capital Territory. The alert was released by the U.S Embassy in Abuja on Sunday. The alert read, “There is an elevated risk of terror attacks in Nigeria, specifically in Abuja. Targets may include, but are not limited to,...
Fake CP Arrested While Attempting To Release Suspect, Says He Was Drunk
It was the end of the road for Mr Nwagu Emmanuel, who has been parading himself as a Commissioner of Police , following his arrest at the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja Lagos, where he had gone to effect the release of a detained suspect. The suspect who was reportedly found with a Walkie Talkie, was paraded alongside 12 others...
Court orders Police To Pay N50m Damages To Abiola’s Wife For Rights Violation
An Abuja High Court sitting at Gudu has ordered the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, to pay the sum of N50million to Prof. Zainab Duke Abiola, wife of the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief MKO Abiola, for violating her fundamental rights. The court, in the judgement that was delivered by Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi, further...
Police Helicopter Crashes In Bauchi
A helicopter belonging to the Nigeria police has crashed at Bauchi airport. The helicopter had on Wednesday evening took off in Abuja. Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) disclosed this on Thursday in a statement in Abuja. The statement partly read, “the accident occurred on 26th January 2022 around 7:30pm (Local Time) at Bauchi Airport. “The NPF helicopter had departed Abuja at 16:54 UTC for...
