CRIME
George Floyd’s Death: What We Know About The Four Ex-police Officers
One of the officers had been on the job for four days. One was on his third shift ever. And Derek Chauvin, who pressed his knee into George Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes, was the field training officer for one of them. Chauvin, J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao were responding to a call about a $20 counterfeit bill...
IGP Depoys Frank Mba, Others As Commissioners Of Police
The Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, has deployed former Force spokesman, Frank Mba and six other Commissioners of Police to various Commands and Formations across the country. According to a statement on Friday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Odejobe, Mba has been moved to the Border Patrol Force, Force Headquarters, Abuja. Other CPs newly posted are Sadiq...
Ag. Chief Of Army Staff Vows To Bring Peace To Nigeria If Confirmed
The Acting Chief of Army Staff, Olufemi Oluyede, has pledged to bring lasting peace to the country if confirmed in a substantive position. He said this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Joint Committee on Defence and Army at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja on Wednesday. He stressed that the security environment in the country today requires a...
Police Finally Charge Commissioner For Raping, Brutalising Lady Over Facebook Post
Nigeria Police Force has charged to court Mr Abdulmumuni Danga, Kogi State Commissioner for Water Resources, for assaulting and raping a lady named Elizabeth over a Facebook post. This is coming five months after the event took place and three months after the commissioner was first invited for questioning by the police. Danga was charged on a seven-count charge including rape...
Notorious Drug Dealer Arrested In Jigawa
Operatives of the Jigawa State Police Command have arrested a suspected drug dealer and recovered 265 wraps of substance suspected to be marijuana. The state police spokesperson, DSP Lawan Shiisu Adam, who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, Ju...
FG To Build Six New Prisons
The federal government on Saturday disclosed that it would establish six new modern custodial facilities in the six geo-political zones in the country. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this in Kano while inspecting the ongoing model maximum security custodial facility project at Janguza in Kumbotso Local Government Area of the state. Aregbesola said the project was part of projects...
NDA Attack: I Was Embarrassed, Says Chief Of Defence Staff
Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, has said that he was embarrassed that the army did not foresee the attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy. “Nigerian Defence Academy is not a place where we could think that we should fortify to such a level that liberty that is required to be able to emplace the level of leadership learning...
EFCC Operatives Produce Binance Executive In Court
An official of Binance Holdings Limited, Tigran Gambaryan, is in court over allegations of tax evasion. He and fleeing Nadeem Anjarwalla are expected to be arraigned today at the Federal High Court in Abuja. In the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/115/2024, Binance was accused of failing to register with the Federal Inland Revenue Service to pay all relevant taxes administered by the service. The...
Tinubu’s Visit: Aiyedatiwa Orders Arrest Of Attackers Of Opposition Supporters During
The Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, on Friday, ordered security agencies in the state to investigate and arrest those who allegedly destroyed the billboards of some state governorship aspirants and attacked members of the All Progressives Congress during the visit of President Bola Tinubu to the state. Tinubu visited the family of late former Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and the Olowo...
Abia Doctors Protest Abduction Of It’s Member, Gives Govt 48 Hours To Secure His Release
Members of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) in Abia state, on Friday, staged a protest to the state Government House in Umuahia, demanding the release of their colleague, senior medical doctor, Prof. Uwadinachi Iweha. Dr. Iweha was kidnapped on Sund...
