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The Department of State Services (DSS) has issued a warning to “elements” threatening Nigeria’s unity and peaceful co-existence. Peter Afunanya, DSS spokesman, in a statement on Sunday, said the those trying to throw the country into anarchy will no longer be tolerated. The secret service condemned the deliberate machinations by …

Late Humoren: Family Cries Out, Begs Police To Release Corpse Of Job Seeker Buried In Shallow Grave The family of a young lady, who had gone in search of a job in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Iniubong Umoren, have requested the corpse of their daughter, who is now confirmed dead. …

Youths mobilise, rescue 15 kidnapped farmers in Taraba What could have been another breakthrough for gunmen who abducted 15 farmers while working on a farm in Donga local government area of Taraba state on Saturday, was however averted by youths of Suntai and adjoining villages in Donga who mobilised and …

  In its continued onslaught against criminality in the Southeast, operatives of the Nigeria Police Force attached to the Ebonyi State Police Command have intercepted 753 live ammunition of General-Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) concealed in a sac being transported in a commercial vehicle from Abakaliki, Ebonyi State to Umuahia in …

Some unidentified Gunmen have attacked Fulani Herdsmen violating the ban on open grazing in Essien Udim Local Government Akwa Ibom state, NEwsextra24 reports. The Gunmen on motorbikes defiled the curfew put in place by the state government to carry out the attack, early Sunday Morning, which resulted in the death …

Unknown Gunmen Attack Another Police Station In Ebonyi, One Officer Killed! Unknown gunmen have attacked Abaomege Police Station in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Newsextra24 has learnt. Newsextra24 gathered that the attack which occurred on Saturday night claimed the life of one police officer on duty. A police …

The Lagos State Police Command on Saturday said its officers have arrested suspected armed robbers, Nnonyelu Kelechukwu, and Okongi Godspower and recovered a stolen vehicle from them. A statement issued by the command‘s spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi said operatives attached to FESTAC Division, led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), made …

The allegation was contained in a statement issued on Saturday by the group’s Media and Communications Secretary, Maxwell Adeleye. Adeleye said eyewitness account had it that the Yoruba activists arrested, were conveyed in a Black Maria to the Headquarters of the Ogun State Police Command in Abeokuta. He gave the …

How Gunmen Killed Kogi Commissioner, Kidnapped Local Council Chairman Some gunmen have abducted the Pension Board Commissioner in Kogi State, police authorities confirmed on Sunday. It was gathered that the commissioner, Adebayo Solomon was killed on Saturday, while the Chairman of Yagba East Local Government, Pius Kolawole and some others …

Lagos- Former governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose has bemoaned the silence of the federal government on the N13 billion recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from an Ikoyi apartment in Lagos in April 2017. The money $43m, N23.2m and £27,800 were blown open after a whistleblower …