CRIME
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Bandits Abduct APC Leaders In Kaduna
Some chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State have been abducted in an attack along Kaduna-Kachia highway in Kaduna State. Daily Trust gathered that the attacked happened at a place called Tashar Icce, which is some meters from Kujama community in Kajuru Area of the state. The team was on its way back from Kafanchan after a...
Man 75, Others Arrested With Hard Drugs
A 75-year-old grandpa, Usman Bokina Bajama (alias Clemen) tops the list of 22 suspects arrested in operations across seven states by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), during which over one million capsules of banned new psychoactive substances were seized. In a statement on Sunday, NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, disclosed that one million one thousand three...
Police Nab Plateau Deadly Army Robbery Syndicates
Operatives of the Intelligence Response Team at the Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB/IRT) of the Nigeria Police have arrested four persons suspected to be armed robbery kingpins terrorising Shendam area and other neighbouring communities in Plateau State. The Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, stated this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The suspects were arrested by the...
Three Suspects Arrested Over Friend’s Death During A Lagos Party
Three persons have been arrested by police in Lagos over the death of their friend, Michael Arigbabuwo, 21, at a party. Ademola Adesina was celebrating his 23rd birthday at a party with his friends, Abdulqudus Salawudeen, 24, Damilare Adelana, 23, and Arigbabuwo, 21, in the Igbogbo area of Ikorodu where Arigbabuwo passed out following alleged use of illicit drug overdose. All...
Suspects Arrested For Defrauding, Raping 23-Year-Old Girl In Lagos
Two suspected fraudsters, Rotimi Fisher and Sherif Adebayo, have allegedly defrauded a 23-year-old girl in the Ipaja area of Lagos State. The suspects also reportedly lured the victim to an uncompleted building on Majiyagbe Street, Ipaja, where Adebayo allegedly raped her. PUNCH Metro gathered that the victim was on her way to a destination in Iyana Ipaja when Fisher approached her...
