Lagos State Police Command has swiftly restored order at Tejuosho Market Phase II in Surulere following a violent rampage by hoodlums who masked their assault as a demonstration against electricity blackouts. Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Babaseyi Oluseyi, detailed the chaos in a Friday statement from Lagos, noting...
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Kebbi State House of Assembly has outrightly dismissed a petition by former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, which accused the state governor of bringing in political thugs and mercenaries. At an emergency press conference in Birnin Kebbi, Speaker Rt. Hon. Muhammad Usman labeled the allegations as...
National President of Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Audu Amba has condemned the violent outbreak of a political rally allegedly organized by former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, at one of its edifice in Kaduna. He made it known while addressing Journalists in Kaduna, that while El-Rufai and...
Kano State Government has announced plans to grant amnesty to 718 repentant youths involved in political thuggery as part of its “Safe Corridor” program, aimed at curbing youth restiveness and rehabilitating offenders. The initiative was launched on Wednesday at the Police Command headquarters in Kano, with the state’s Commissioner...
Security operatives in Abuja on Wednesday dispersed suspected political thugs attempting to cause crisis at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) national headquarters, as the party National Working Committee (NEC) met. A staff member of the PDP national secretariat, who pleaded anonymity, said that the suspected thugs were led by...
Suspected thugs inside buses and on motorcycles on Monday invaded Olorunda Local Government Secretariat, Igbona, in Osogbo wielding machetes and other dangerous weapons The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the development is coming barely days to Saturday’s local government election coming up across the state. NAN gathered...
There were pockets of violence in some local governments on Monday as members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) engaged in skirmishes over control of local government secretariats. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who was at Ife East Local Government...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged hijack of electoral materials for the conduct of Local Government Area (LGA) elections in Cross River by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The allegation was made by PDP candidates in the Saturday elections in Yakurr and Obudu Council, Mrs Jennifer Usani...
President Bola Tinubu has called on Gov. Siminalayi Fubara, political leaders and their supporters in Rivers to exercise restraint and uphold the rule of law. In response to recent tensions following last Saturday’s local government council election, the President expressed deep concern over reports of arson and explosions in...
Thugs on Monday set fire to two local government council secretariats in Rivers in protest of the recent swearing-in of 22 new council chairmen by Gov. Siminalayi Fubara. Arnexd thugs were seen storming several council offices, shooting into the air, and vandalising the properties. Two secretariats, in Eleme and...
The Rivers Assembly has urged the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to order the urgent arrest of suspected political thugs, allegedly behind the torching of some Local Government Secretariats in the state. The Speaker, Mr Victor Oko-Jumbo made the call on Monday during the plenary session of the...
Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo has called on security operatives to fish out the hoodlums that attacked Alhaji Yakubu Ajaka, the SDP candidate in the 2023 governorship election, at the Supreme Court premises on Friday. Ododo made the call in Lokoja on Sunday through the State Commissioner for Information,...
Following the nationwide protest that turned violent in Kano State, the state government has confirmed that thugs stormed and severely damaged the premises of the Kano State High Court, carting away crucial documents related to corruption charges against the former governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. Kano...
In a bid to restore order and curb the resurgence of thuggery, the Kano Police Command has successfully dislodged local thugs, known as ‘Yan Daba’, from the main emir’s palace in Kano. The palace, currently occupied by Emir Muhammadu Sanusi, had been guarded by these thugs and local...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kano- Kano State Police Command has foiled an attempt by suspected thugs to invade the residence of the state’s All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman, Prince Abdullahi Abbas. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abdullahi Kiyawa, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Kano. Kiyawa...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has commenced investigation into the reported cases of disruption in the ongoing re-run and by-elections in Akwa-Ibom, Enugu and Kano states . INEC disclosed this on Saturday in an update through its verified X (formerly Twitter) handle on...
By GABRIEL OMONHINMIN – It is no longer news that the off-cycle elections in Nigeria have come and gone and winners declared in various States where the elections took place. In the Bayelsa State Governorship election, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Governor Duoye Diri, won six local government...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended its campaign for the Nov. 11 Kogi Governorship Election, as a mark of respect for Ms Khadijat Yahaya, a member of the party who died after an attack by suspected thugs. The spokesperson for the state Campaign Council, Mr Kingsley Fanwo,...
The Kogi chapter of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has accused the State Government of frustrating its efforts to campaign for votes, across the state, ahead of the Nov.11 governorship election. The party said this in a statement in Lokoja by Mr Isaiah Ijele, the Director General, New...
By OJOMA PETER, Lokoja – Security personnel protecting The Social Democratic Party (SDP) Governorship Candidate in Kogi State, Alhaji Muritala Yakubu Ajaka on Friday, successfully repelled gun attacks by thugs known to be working for the State Governor Mr Yahaya Bello. Several supporters of Ajaka sustained bullet wounds...