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KDSG Security Update: Saturday 15th January 2022. Troops neutralize three terrorists, recover arms in Chikun LGA. Military authorities have reported to the Kaduna State Government that troops neutralized three terrorists during patrols along the Telele-Sabon Gida road in Chikun LGA. According to the operational feedback, the troops laid an ambush …

PRESS STATEMENT NSCDC BOSS DISBANDS THE ANTI VANDAL UNIT OF RIVERS STATE COMMAND. The Commandant General of Nigeria security and Civil Defence Corps, Ahmed Abubakar Audi, PhD, mni, has received with shock and dismay, the allegations levelled against the anti vandal unit of Rivers State Command of the Corps by …

Policemen in Lagos have been accused of kidnapping citizens and detaining them in cells without the knowledge of their families and judiciary arm of government. Some lawyers, who volunteered under the Duty Solicitors Network disclosed, this in a statement by their leader, Bayo Akinlade. They accused the police of breaking the …

…My husband had threatened in the past to kill our children Mrs. Millicent Amadigwa, the mother of the three girls who were allegedly killed and dumped in a deep freezer by their father, 52-year-old Ifeanyi Amadikwa, at their home on 74 Nkwubor Road, Emene, Enugu, has broken her silence, IgbereTV …

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Kwara state have arrested a suspected serial POS fraudster and fake alert scammer, Victor Adebayo, 24. Parading the suspect in Ilorin on Friday January 14, the state commandant of the NSCDC, Makinde Iskil Ayinla, said that the suspect had …

At least five persons were killed when farmers and herders clashed in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State. Houses, maize barns, motorcycles and other valuables were reportedly set ablaze in the clash. Daily Trust reports that the clash occurred barely a year after a similar incident claimed scores of …

A Nigerian national, Richard Mbudu Cyril, has been arrested by the Bengaluru Central Crime Branch (CCB) for manufacturing synthetic drug, Methylsulfonylmethane (MDMA) crystal in his rented house using a pressure cooker. A police team headed by Soladevanahalli police inspector R Virupakshaswamy raided the suspect’s house in Tarabanahalli village on Hesaraghatta …

The Anambra State Police Command has arrested the commander of the Anambra State Vigilante Group for allegedly torturing a female police officer on January 12, 2022. The police spokesman, DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, confirmed the arrest in Awka on Saturday. He said the Commissioner of Police, Echeng Echeng, ordered the arrest …

Hundreds of women across four local government areas in Ondo State staged protests on Saturday, against the spate of insecurity in the area. It was gathered that the peaceful protests were staged in Oka Akoko, Akungba Akoko and some other Akoko towns. The protests were said to have been triggered …

Amotekun officials of Osun, Oyo, Ondo and Ekiti states, who spoke separately with our correspondents, said they had got credible intelligence that terrorists fleeing military operations in the North-West would seek refuge in the forests of the southern states. Amotekun personnel, therefore said they had started combing forests in the …