SOME yet-to-be identified gunmen have gunned down two policemen and left another fatally wounded at Okpala junction, in the Ngor Okpala local government area of Imo State on Saturday. Sources confirmed two policemen lying lifeless in the pool of their blood while another was in a police vehicle for onward …
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The Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State Command, Dare Ogundare, on Friday paraded 16 suspects arrested for various criminal activities including four men who were nabbed allegedly for kidnapping activities in the Oke Ako area of the state and parts of Kwara State. Ogundare, who assured that the command under him …
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The Police Command in Borno has arrested 110 suspected criminals, including two repentant Boko haram members, for various offences. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdu Umar, told newsmen on Friday in Maiduguri that the suspects were arrested for rape, kidnapping, robbery, culpable homicide, theft and other crimes. Umar said six …
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A Yaba Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday remanded a man, Wisdom Emmanuel, for allegedly sexually violating his daughter’s friend in his office. The 34-year-old was remanded by Magistrate Patrick Nwaka on two counts of sexual violation preferred against him by the Lagos State Police Command. The defendant was said to have …
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday said the social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha (alias Mompha), charged with N6 billion money laundering had been re-arrested. The EFCC counsel, Mr Suleiman Suleiman, told an Ikeja Special Offences Court that the prosecution in collaboration with its international partners had secured …
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The police in Delta State have arrested two men, Emmanuel James (32) and Ejiro Peter (25), for allegedly kidnapping a couple, Mr and Mrs Okutonye Efetobore, in Ejewu community in Udu LGA on April 27, and collecting a N1 million ransom. DSP Bright Edafe, the command’s spokesman, who disclosed this …
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AN Abuja-based legal practitioner, Henry Onyinyechi Nwosu and a Pastor, Jonathan Onuoha were on Monday arraigned in Court in Abuja over alleged conspiracy and forgery of documents of a plot of land located at Zone 6, Dutse Alhaji District of Abuja. The two defendants were docked at the Chief Magistrate …
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THE Theatre Commander, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), Maj-Gen Ibrahim Ali, has said that another Chibok schoolgirl has been rescued. The 25-year Saratu Dauda; was rescued by the ground troops on May 6, 2023 at Ukuba terrorists’ hideouts in the Sambisa forest, Borno state. Handing over Saratu, to the State Commissioner …
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Two businessmen arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja for cocaine ingestion have both excreted 193 pellets of the illicit drug after three days in observatory custody. The traffickers: Onoh Ebere, 49, and Christian Ifeanyi Ogbuji, 47, were …
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THE Police Service Commission (PSC) on Sunday commended the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Usman Baba, for ordering the arrest of Seun Kuti for attacking a police officer on duty. In a video that has gone viral, the Afrobeat musician, wearing a red shirt atop a white pair of trousers, was …
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