CRIME
Our Investment In Security Yielding Positive Results To Nigerians — Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday expressed delight that investments in improving security are yielding good dividends, lauding the Nigeria military for making significant progress in the fight against insecurity and building the momentum in reducing challenges to its barest minimum. Speaking at the Nigeria International Economic Partnership Forum held on the margins of the 77th UN General Assembly in New...
Tension In Abia Community As Army Clash With Gunmen
There was heavy gun shooting on Friday evening between soldiers of 14 Brigade, Army Headquarters, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s Barracks, Ohafia and gunmen in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State. Information gathered by our reporter has it that the fierce exchange of gunfire between the gunmen and soldiers has caused panic as residents and indigenes of Ebem Ohafia LGA hide...
3 Policemen Kidnapped In Ogun
No fewer than three policemen were said to have been abducted in broad daylight by some unknown gunmen in Ogun State. It was gathered that the police officers were abducted on Thursday at Wasinmi, in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State. The cops were the State from Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos State, for an investigation. They were said to have been...
Police Begin Documentation Of Successful Candidates For Recruitment Exercise
The Niger State Police Command has urged successful candidates in the ongoing ninth regular course intake to the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil Kano, to prepare for screenings. The command said in a statement issued in Minna on Thursday that physical and credential screening would begin from September 26 to October 1 at Police Secondary School, Minna by 8 a.m daily. The...
FG Favours Other State-Owned Security Agencies – Akeredolu
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has accused the Federal Government of double standards in their treatment of state-owned security agencies. He lamented that the FG resisted needed rights for the South-West Security Network, codenamed Amotekun Corps to legitimately bear arms while their equivalent in Katsina was allowed to bear arms. In a statement he personally signed on Thursday and made...
IGP Orders The Arrest And Prosecution Of Professor For Assaulting Policewoman
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has strongly condemned the assault on a female police officer, Inspector Teju Moses, by her principal, who is a legal practitioner and human rights activist, Prof. Zainab Duke, and her domestic staff, one Rebecca Enechido, as well as a male suspect currently at large. Force spokesperson, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made this known on Thursday. He noted...
UPDATE: Hoodlums Only Attacked Our Men Who Were On Stop And Search Duty – Abia Police Command
The Abia State Police command has debunked reports of an attack on the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, in Umuahia, as false. There are reports making the rounds that gunmen on Wednesday evening, invaded the facility located along Uzuakoli road in Umuahia. The reports also alleged that the armoury was invaded and three policemen injured. However, the Police Public Relations Officer,...
PDP Crisis: People Must Keep To Their Words – Udom Emmanuel
The chairman of the Presidential campaign council of the Peoples Democracy Party, PDP, Udom Emmanuel has stressed the need for people to keep to their words. The Akwa Ibom State Governor made the call while reacting to the withdrawal of Governor Nyesom Wike’s camp from the presidential campaign council of the PDP. Wike’s camp is demanding for the resignation of the...
How Suspected Fraudsters Hacked Bank Account, Transferred N523m To 225 Customers
Suspected fraudsters, during a three-day cyber-attack, have hacked a customer’s account domiciled in an old generation bank and fraudulently transferred N523,337,100 from the account to 18 different accounts in the same bank. The spokesperson for the Police Special Fraud Unit in Ikoyi, Lagos State, SP Eyitayo Johnson, in a statement on Wednesday, said the suspects subsequently transferred the money from...
Gunmen Attack Abia State CID, 3 Officers Critically Injured
An undisclosed number of gunmen on Wednesday evening attacked the Criminal Investigation Department office of the Abia State police command located in Umuagu in Umuahia, inflicting serious injury on three police officers, ABN TV reports. While one was seriously macheted, the rest two were shot but no casualty was recorded. The injured officers have since been rushed to the hospital for...
