FCT Police Warns Nigerians Using Command’s Emergency Numbers To Obtain Online Loans To Stop
The Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police, Haruna Garba, has lamented that some undisclosed persons drop the command’s emergency numbers with loan shark companies to obtain loans. He also said non-state actors had also been engaging the emergency lines. The CP, however, warned those behind the acts to desist, saying that the police would ensure they are brought to book. Garba stated...
Ebonyi Woman Regains Freedom After Abduction From Suspected Herdsmen, Narrates Ordeal
A woman kidnapped by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen in Ishiagu, Ivo Local Government area of Ebonyi State, last week, Mrs Nkechinyere Onachukwu, has been reportedly rescued. The woman was kidnapped on her farm in Amaonye community in Ishiagu last week Tuesday. She was released on Monday, following a manhunt by security agencies in conjunction with the council’s security led by...
DSS, Prison Officials Fight Dirty Over Emefiele
There was drama at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday when the Department of State Services (DSS) operatives and officials of the Nigeria Correctional Centre (NCC) fought over the custody of Godwin Emefiele, suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Emefiele, who has been in DSS detention since June, was arraigned in court on Tuesday. Justice Nicholas...
Imo: Perpetrators Of Insecurity Should Prepare For Bloody Nose, New Army Commander In Obinze Talks Tough
Respite seems to have come the way of residents of Imo State with the Nigerian Army 34 Artillery Brigade Obinze in Imo State reading the riot act to bandits in the state. The new Commander of the Nigerian Army 34 Artillery Brigade, Imo State, Brigadier General Usman Lawal, shortly after taking over at the Brigade Command headquarters in Obinze, vowed...
Fear Grips Bandits As DHQ Says Troops’ War Mode Has Been Activated Against Terror
Defence Headquarters said, yesterday, that the current leadership of the Armed Forces has activated troops into ‘war mode’, with a view to countering the threats of terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and economic sabotage being perpetrated against Nigerians. Consequently, in the last one week, troops neutralised 23 terrorists, bandits and IPoB militants, rescued 17 kidnapped civilians and arrested 32 criminal elements, including...
Military Can’t Solve Insurgency Problem In North East — VP Shettima
Vice President, Kashim Shettima has said that the military cannot end the crisis in the Northeast as against a kinetic and non-kinetic solution. The Vice President also said that the Bola Tinubu administration will, in the coming weeks, unveil an initiative that will address insurgency and poverty, among other challenges confronting Nigerians especially those living in the northern region. He stated...
Chief Of Army Staff Orders Clampdown On Sit-At-Home Enforcers In South East
The Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja has directed troops of the Nigerian Army to assert control over regions where Simon Ekpa, a self-acclaimed disciple of Nnamdi Kanu, detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, imposed a sit-at-home order in the South-East. He spoke as the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Aderemi Adeoye assured yesterday that...
Obi Decries Loss Of Lives Across Nigeria
The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi has urged security agencies to do more in securing the nation, saying that it is unacceptable for innocent Nigerians to continue to be killed in their hundreds within their own country. In a statement posted on his official Twitter page on Thursday, Obi said the implications...
Troops Neutralise 3 Bandits In Plateau Gun Duel
Troops of the 3 Division of the Nigerian Army, on Wednesday, killed three bandits in the Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. The troops neutralised the criminals in a gun battle after clearing an ambush by the bandits. “The troops obliterated the criminals when they gallantly fought through an ambush staged by the bandits, while responding to a distress call...
Tinubu Meets With Nigerian Troops In Guinea Bissau’s Peacekeeping Mission
President Bola Tinubu has arrived in Guinea Bissau for the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The News Agency of Nigeria reports that this is Tinubu’s second foreign trip after his participation at the summit on “A New Global Financing Pact” in Paris, France, hosted...
