CRIME
FCT Police Command Speaks On Maitama Explosion
The police authorities on Wednesday said the explosion in the Maitama area of Abuja, the nation’s capital, was caused by an overheated metal refuse bin. Reports had emerged of a bomb explosion in the area creating panic and confusion among residents of the nation’s capital. In a statement, the FCT Police spokesperson, Josephine Adeh, said the situation and preliminary findings indicate...
Gunmen Kill Anambra Couple, Dump Bodies In Their Vehicle Boot
Some yet-to-be-identified gunmen have killed two persons suspected to be husband and wife and dumped their corpses in a car boot of their vehicle, a Toyota Camry with the registration number: EE-621-EU. The two fresh blood-dripping corpses were seen by passers-by at a lonely place along the Tempo Junction, Umunya axis of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway in the early hours of...
kidnapping, killings: Wike Orders Profiling Of Vigilance Groups In Abuja
Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Barrister Minister, Nyesom Wike on Wednesday, January 24, ordered full profiling of vigilance groups assisting security operatives in the nation’s capital. Wike directed the six Area Council Chairmen to setup the process and ensure that each member of the group is profiled. Speaking during a strategic security meeting with members of the FCT Council of Chiefs and...
Abia Former Chief Of Staff, ACB Agbazuere Arrested
The Abia State Police Command has arrested Prof ACB Agbazuere, Former Chief of Staff and candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for Isiala Ngwa North and South Federal Constituency in the 2023 General Election. He is presently being held at the CP's Office Bende Road Umuahia. He was arrested while preparing to honour the Panel on Recovery of Government Properties...
Man Arrested For Allegedly Selling Company’s Car To Fund Relocation
The police in Lagos State have arrested a man who attempted to sell his company’s car to raise money to relocate his family to Ghana. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest to NAN on Tuesday. Hundeyin said that the State Criminal Investigation Department got information on January 16, at about 1 pm concerning a Toyota Hilux...
Police Arrest Officers Who Extorted $3000 As Arrangement For Orderly Room Trial Continues
The Rivers State Police Command has said that three of its officers who kidnapped and extorted the sum of $3,000 from two men would face an orderly room trial and query respectively. The spokesperson for the command, Grace Iringe-Koko, who disclosed this while parading the suspects before newsmen in Port Harcourt on Monday, said the action is part of internal...
Recruitment: Otti Worried Over Apathy, Begs Abians To Join Police
Worried by the reluctance of youths to participate in the ongoing police recruitment exercise, Abia State Government has directed all 17 Mayors, traditional rulers and Presidents-General of communities in the state to quickly embark on mass mobilisation of their youths to fill the state’s quota. Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu, in a statement, regretted that the state’s allocation “in...
Wike May Be Summoned By Senate As Insecurity Persists In FCT — Sen. Kingibe
Senator Ireti Kingibe says the Senate will summon the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Nyesom Wike and security agencies over the spike in crimes in the nation’s capital. While Abuja has been in the news owing to the rising rate of insecurity in the area, the lawmaker who represents the FCT said upon resumption later in the month,...
NAF Air Strike Kills Notorious Kidnapper Janari In Kaduna
The Nigerian Air Force says air strikes undertaken by the air component of Operation WHIRL PUNCH, on Thursday, neutralized a well-known terrorist and kidnap kingpin popularly known as Janari and several members of his syndicate. Janari and his cohorts have been responsible for several attacks and abductions within Kaduna State as well as along the Abuja-Kaduna highway, a statement by...
Extraditing Nnamdi Kanu Was A Favour To Him, We Would Have Eliminated Him If We Wanted — Buhari
A former Special Adviser to former President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, says Buhari’s government did a favour to the leader of the outlawed and cessationist group – Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, by extraditing him to Nigeria. Kanu, formerly a fugitive was extradited to Nigeria in June 2021 after serially breaching bail conditions by...
