The police have rescued 21 schoolchildren kidnapped on December 31 by bandits at Kucheri Village, along Gusau-Funtua Road in Zamfara State. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Mohammed Shehu, confirmed the development during a press conference on Saturday. Their freedom, he stated, followed efforts by police...
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By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – Gunmen suspected to be bandits have kidnapped a wife of Dr AbdulRazaq, a lecturer with Federal College of Education (Technical) Gusau and his two daughters, Maryam AbdulRazaq and Hafsat AbdulRazaq. It was learnt that the incident occured on Friday at Mareri Community, an outskirt...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Hundreds of women and youths took to the streets of Tafawa Balewa Town, in Tafawa Balewa LGA of Bauchi State, to protest over the 21st memorial anniversary of the leader and crusader of the Sayawa people, late Peter Gonto, scheduled for Friday, 31st December. The...
Former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has said that elements described as ‘unknown gunmen’ in Imo State may soon be revealed after the arrest of Uche Nwosu. Okorocha, a serving Senator at the National Assembly, made the comment on Tuesday while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today. According to...
Sen. Nicholas Tofowomo, representing Ondo South Senatorial District in the Senate, has commended the new Commissioner of Police in Ondo State, Mr Oyeyemi Oyediran, for removing the illegal checkpoints causing gridlock on Sagamu-Ore-Benin expressway. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oyediran and his team had, last week,...
The Police in Adamawa have denied an online report that Boko Haram insurgents and bandits have attacked the home town of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha. DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, Police Spokesman in state said there was no truth in the report that...
Three persons have reportedly been killed on Sunday after gunmen suspected to be bandits invaded some communities under Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An unspecified number of villagers, mostly women, were said to have been kidnapped during the assault. Some of the villages said to have been...
By BARBARA KALU, Owerri- The Imo State Police Command on Monday released the former Imo State gubernatorial candidate, Uche Nwosu from its custody. Recalled that Nwosu, a son-in-law to former Governor Rochas Okorocha, was on Sunday whisked away by the security agencies at St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Eziama-Obaire, Nkwerre...
A ritualist, Alfa Tunde Olayiwola, who was in police custody in Akure over alleged possession of a human skull has slumped and died on Saturday. Police spokesman, DSP Olufunmilayo Odunlami, who confirmed the death of the suspect on Sunday, denied that he was beating or tortured to death. Odunlami...
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a 37-year-old businessman, Josiah Ehuchire, charged with kidnapping a five-year-old boy. The Magistrate, Mrs O.A Dirisu, who did not take Ehuchire’s plea, ordered that he should be remanded in Kirikri Correctional Centre. Dirisu, then ordered the police to send the case file...
Over 70 travellers have been reportedly kidnapped by gunmen suspected to bandits along the Kaduna-Birnin Gwari Road on Wednesday. The incident occurred around Udawa village after Buruku in Chikun Local Government Area of the state. According to an eyewitness account, the vehicles conveying the travellers, mainly traders, were attacked...
Security has been beefed up in Maiduguri and environs as President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to visit the town. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the President would inaugurate viable projects executed by Gov. Babagana Zulum’s administration during the visit to the state. These include the Custom...
A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Wednesday ordered that a 17-year-old, who allegedly sodomised a nine-year-old boy, be remanded in a Correctional Centre. The minor, who lives at Kofar Mata Quarters Kano, is charged with unnatural offence. The Chief Magistrate, Auwal Yusuf-Suleiman, ordered that the police to return the...
Nollywood Actor Damola Olatunji has been docked for confronting a police officer who slapped his personal assistant. Actor Olatunji was charged to court today as confirmed by his colleagues. He had confronted the police officer for slapping his P.A at Abule Egba area of Lagos state. Recall that in...
At least one policeman died Monday in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma as police fired tear gas and live bullets to break up a protest against rising crime. The demonstrators converged on arterial roads early in the morning, setting up barricades and burning tyres in the capital...
Operatives of the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) in a joint operation with the Police Command in Taraba have raided various criminal hideouts and rescued some kidnap victims. Force Public Relations Officer, Mr Frank Mba stated in Abuja on Sunday that kidnap victims at the various hideouts were...
A couple residing at Ilara area of Ode Remo, in Remo North Local Government Area of Ogun State have been arrested for selling their one-month-old baby for the sum of N50,000. The police public relations officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi who disclosed this in a press statement said the buyer is...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna + The Kaduna State Commissioner of Police (CP), Mudassiru Abdullahi has ordered a thorough investigation over the killing of a lawmaker in Kaduna. The police spokesman in the state, ASP Mohammed Jalige disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Kaduna. ASP Jalige said...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – No fewer than 305 suspected bandits, armed robbers and kidnappers have been arrested by the operatives of Kaduna State Police Command between January and November 2021. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, ASP Mohammed Jalige, who disclosed this in a statement...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, admitted 12 out of the 15 suspects linked to the invasion of the residence of the Supreme Court Judge, Justice Mary Odili, to a bail in the sum of N5 million each. Justice Nkeonye Maha granted them bail after counsel to the...