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A Police Inspector, Michael Timitimi, who was attached to the Bayelsa State Police Command at the weekend slumped and died during the burial rites of his grandmother in Igbedi community in Kolokuma\Opokuma Local Government Area of the State. The deceased inspector was attached to the State security outfit, the State …

Unknown gunmen on Tuesday kidnapped two siblings Esther Kehinde, 20, and David Kehinde, 15, at Oremeji street, Joga Orile area of Ayetoro, Yewa North Local Government, Ogun State. Newsextra24 learnt that the victims were abducted from their residents around 9pm while they were carrying out domestic chores. A source, who …

It was weeping and wailing Wednesday morning in the northern Edo town of Auchi, Etsako West Local Government Area as about five persons were feared dead after a trailer conveying cement reportedly crashed into several shops in the city centre. The exact casualty figure is yet to be determined as …

A self-confessed kidnapper in Adamawa State, Sadu Bunkawu, has rejected a share of N200,000 from a ransom of N12 million and reported his fellow gang members to the police. Describing his share as a product of high level of injustice, Bunkawu said he expects the police to correct the injustice. …

Armed bandits invade a community in Kaduna state, killing three people and abducting two women in the early hours of Thursday, March 10. salemgists gathered that the attack took place at Fumigi Street, Ungwan Galadima, Gonin Gora, Chikun Local Government Area of the State. The ugly development was confirmed in …

The Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, and his colleagues allegedly embezzled millions of naira belonging to the House, including forging the receipts of two filling stations, court documents filed before the Federal High Court in the state have shown. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission …

Two teenagers have narrated how they killed their neighbour’s 8-year-old son, Raheem Bamimore. This comes after police in Oyo State arrested the two teenage brothers, Waliu Abd Razaq and Iliaz Abdul Razaq alongside their father, AbdulRasaq Padun. They were accused of abduction and murder. The boy who was declared missing …

The suspect was arrested from Anand Vihar, Uttam Nagar, in New Delhi on Tuesday, March 8. A Nigerian man has been arrested by the Thiruvananthapuram city cyber-crime police in Kerala for posing as the Director General of Police, DGP, Anil Kant to defraud a school teacher of Rs 14 lakh …

In furtherance of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s zero tolerance to all forms of domestic and sexual violence, the State government has begun the publication of details of sex offenders in the state. This was disclosed to newsmen by the Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), …

The chain of events that led to the death of Joseph Egbunike, a Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police in charge of the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID), began from the seemingly harmless consumption of a meal, FIJ can report. According to insiders at the Force Heaquarters, Abuja, [b]Egbunike was …