How Lagos DPO Slumped, Died In Office After Complaining Of Headache
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Seme Police Division in Lagos State, SP Mojeed Salami, slumped and died in his office on Tuesday. Though the actual cause of death was not known, a police source who spoke to our correspondent Friday said the DPO had earlier complained of a minor headache and had gone to a hospital. He said the DPO...
First Lady Advocates Capital Penalty For Kidnappers
The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has called on state governors and lawmakers to prescribe capital punishment for kidnapping. She also described as heart-rendering, the act of kidnapping innocent children who are the future of the nation. Senator Tinubu canvassed capital punishment for kidnappers on Friday during a meeting with national women leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC at the...
Insecurity: Governors Form Subcommittee To Collaborate With Security Chiefs
Alarmed by the escalating insecurity marked by rampant crime, banditry, kidnappings, and widespread destruction of property across the country, the 36 state governors, under the umbrella of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), have formed a subcommittee to partner with security agency heads in crafting a coordinated and urgent response to the nation’s security crisis. In response, the 36 state governors...
Prominent Northern Leaders Urge Tinubu To Reject Relocation Of US, French Military Bases In Nigeria
Some eminent northern leaders Friday cautioned against allowing the United States and the French governments to relocate their military bases from the Sahel to Nigeria. In an open letter to President Bola Tinubu and the leadership of the National Assembly, the leaders said the federal government should not succumb to such pressure. Those who signed the letter include Professor Abubakar Siddique...
Bala Elkana Replaces Ikeokwu Orlando As Imo PPRO
SP Bala Elkana has taken over as the new Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO Imo State Police Command. He replaces SP Ikeokwu Godson Orlando who has been redeployed to Ondo State Police Command. A statement signed by the immediate past PPRO of Imo State Police Command, SP Ikeokwu Godson Orlando says SP Bala Elkana was enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force...
Photographer Stabbed To Death By Armed Men In Niger
Suspected hoodlums have killed a 33-year-old freelance photographer, Zacchaeus Salawadeen, after stabbing him many times in the presence of his three children. The hoodlums were said to have trailed Salawadeen to his house in Tundun Fulani Area of Minna, Niger State capital where they stabbed him to death. The incident was said to have occurred on Tuesday night after the photographer...
Nigerian Defence Academy Explains Invasion By Bandits, Says Security Was Compromised
Authorities of the Nigerian Defence Academy has explained the invasions of residential area within the Academy in Afaka, Kaduna State by unknown gunmen in the early hours of Tuesday. The Academy noted that security was compromised which allowed the bandits gain access to the barracks. In a statement obtained by ABN TV on Tuesday from Major Bashir Muhd Jajira, Public Relations...
Troops Rescue 31 Kidnap Victims In Sokoto (PHOTOS)
Troops of the Joint Task Force Northwest Operation Hadarin Daji (OPHD) have rescued 31 kidnapped victims in Sokoto State. This is as the Northwest Operation under the command of the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 8 Division Nigerian Army, Sokoto, Major General Godwin Mutkut, intensified the onslaught and conducted a series of clearance operations to terrorists/bandits’ enclaves in its areas of...
Plateau Killings: Restructure Nigeria Now, Edwin Clark tells Tinubu
Convener, Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Edwin Clark, at the weekend said that the only solution to challenges confronting Nigeria, especially insecurity, is restructuring. Clark stated this in an open letter addressed to President Bola Tinubu, obtained by ABN TV, where he sympathised with the President over the recent killings in Plateau State. The Elder Statesman insisted that restructuring Nigeria is...
Hold IPOB Responsible For Attack On Imo INEC Office — Police
The police in Imo State have said gunmen suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network (ESN) carried out the attack on the Oru West office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Mike Abattam, the state police spokesperson, said in Owerri on Sunday that the operatives on duty,...
