CRIME
Abuja Insecurity: How Military, Police Rescued Najeebah’s Sisters, Others
Following the relentless raids of the Federal Capital Territory by the Police Command Anti-Kidnapping squad in conjunction with troops of the Nigerian Army, the joint security team on Saturday night rescued several kidnapped persons abducted at the Zuma 1 area of Bwari Area Council on January 2. The FCT Police Command in a statement signed by SP Josephine Adeh said,...
Girl, 26 Arrested For Stabbing Man Friend To Death Over Sex Demand In Port Harcourt
Twenty-six-year-old Sarah Nwankpo is now cooling her heels in the custody of the Rivers State Criminal Investigation Department. It was for the murder of her male friend, Igbodike Anthony, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. She admitted to having stabbed the deceased during an argument over more sex, in his apartment Obiri-Ikwerre area residence. During interrogation, it was discovered that she had...
FG Reviews Guidelines For Recruitment Into Paramilitary Agencies
The Federal Government has announced the review of the guidelines for recruitment into the Civil Defence, Fire, Correctional, and Immigration Services, saying henceforth 35 per cent of recruitment into the services would be allocated to women. The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, disclosed this on Friday in Abuja at the end of the meeting of the Board of the Civil...
Wike Says Some Informants Of Bandits Have Been Captured
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, on Friday, said arrests have been made of some persons in connection with feeding bandits with information in the area. The minister disclosed this during a town hall meeting with the Gwagwalada area council chairman, traditional rulers, security operatives, and residents of Gwagwalada area council in Gwagwalada, Abuja. Though he didn’t state...
EFCC Investigators Are Taking Bribes – Chairman Olukoyede
Ola Olukoyede, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) has alleged that some of the commission’s investigators are taking bribes, noting that he had a process in motion to fish them out. Olukoyede made this known on Thursday, January 18, in his New Year address to staff members of the anti-graft agency at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. The...
Wike Requests That CP Create More Police Divisions In Gwagwalada Over Insecurity
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has asked the Police Commissioner, FCT Command, to establish two additional Police Divisions in Gwagwalada Area Council of the territory. Wike gave the directive during a security town hall with relevant stakeholders on Friday in Gwagwalada, to find lasting solutions to security challenges affecting the federal capital. The order was...
Goods Seized By Apapa Customs Worth N22.8bn In 2023 – Comptroller
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Apapa Command, said it made 54 seizures with a duty-paid value of N22.8 billion in 2023. The Customs Area Controller of the Command, Comptroller Babajide Jaiyeoba, said this in a statement on Friday in Lagos. The statement was signed by CSC Abubakar Usman, Public Relations Officer of the command. Jaiyeoba said the seizures comprise prohibited goods, foreign...
Halt Deadly, Coordinated Attacks, NADECO Tells Tinubu Over Insecurity
A Nigerian Diaspora group, National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, based in the United States of America, USA, Friday, called on President Bola Tinubu, to halt all deadly and coordinated attacks on innocent Nigerians. In a statement tagged ‘Urgent Call for Action: Addressing Key Issues in Nigeria’, and signed by the Chairman, NADECO USA, Prof Mondy Gold, expressed concern over the impunity...
Bandits On Rampage In Kaduna, Sack Ten Villages
Bandits have displaced 10 communities in Kidandan area under Giwa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State. Giwa is one of the LGAs that has been badly hit in the ongoing wave of insecurity in the North West. Some of the residents were forced to relocate to Kidandan main town and other safer communities in the LGA, Daily Trust reports. The affected...
Abducted Imo Traditional Ruler, Eze Ohiri Regains Freedom
A traditional ruler and the former chairman of the Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Samuel Agunwa Ohiri, who was abducted by gunmen, has regained his freedom. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Henry Okoye, confirmed this to journalists in Owerri on Thursday. Ohiri was abducted from his residence in the Orodo community, Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo...
