Category: POLICE & CRIME

The Imo State Police Command has vowed to unravel the circumstances surrounding the killing of no fewer than 18 people in coordinated attacks by gunmen in several communities in Orsu Local Government Area of Imo State. Reports said that the killings occurred in Umukabia, Eziawa, Ihittenasa, Umuhu, Amaoku, and Amaebe, all communities within Orsu LGA on Sunday. A former Chairman of the Nigerian Human Rights Commission, Prof Chidi Odinkalu, who hails from Orsu, had drawn attention to the incident via his X-handle on Monday. Odinkalu tweeted, “Information is coming through …

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A suspected cable vandal, Muktar Rabiu, has been electrocuted while attempting to steal high-voltage cables in the Federal Capital Territory. The incident occurred on November 28, 2024, just weeks after Rabiu had been apprehended and sentenced for a similar crime. This was revealed in a statement by the FCT Police Command Spokesperson, Josephine Adeh on Monday. Adeh said Rabiu was initially arrested on November 21, 2024, during a routine patrol along Christ the King Road in Gwagwalada. She said he was caught with high-voltage cables believed to have been stolen…

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The Enugu State Police Command said it would prosecute officers attached to the Awkunanaw Police Station, Garriki, who were accused of extorting a traveller in the state. The victim’s brother had on Saturday raised the alarm on X.com with the handle @Mr_Robmichael1 stating that the officers stopped an inter-state commercial bus his brother was in. He alleged that his brother was thereafter kidnapped and taken to an unknown village where the sum of N1m was extorted from him. “Nigerian police officers in Enugu kidnapped my younger brother, took him to…

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The Enugu State Police Command says three male suspects have been arraigned in court for criminal conspiracy and theft of the sum of N4,000,000 from an account of a customer of an unnamed bank in Enugu. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Daniel Ndukwe disclosed this in a statement issued in Enugu on Thursday. The statement said the trio of Ndulaka Okwudili (26), Ifeanyi Nnamani (a former staff member of an Enugu branch of a commercial bank, (name withheld), and Philip Ozogwu (44), criminally conspired to steal and use the…

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Operatives of the Special Investigations Team attached to the Force Criminal Investigations Department Annex in Lagos State have arrested one Chinedu Ngwaka for his alleged involvement in a fraudulent scheme worth N320 million. Ngwaka, a self-acclaimed Bureau De Change operator, was also accused of using a fraudulent Presidency number plate on his Toyota Hilux vehicle, and a fake Identity Card, purportedly issued by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment. This was disclosed in a statement on Wednesday, as shared by the Public Relations Officer, FCID Annex, Lagos State, Mayegun…

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Next to a vandalised wire fence opposite HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, 28-year-old Beatrice Auty brushes away tears. The memories of her time inside the jail are too much to bear. She served more than a year here for money laundering, and claims she was sexually harassed by a male prison officer. “He made me feel very uncomfortable,” Auty says. “He commented on my appearance – a lot. He suggested he wanted to come to my cell – I feel if I had been up for it, he would have wanted…

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Two suspects involved in the killing of Mr Steven Aniagu, Chairman of Ogbete Main Market Traders’ Association, OMMATA,have been arrested by the police in Enugu. The suspects were paraded on Friday at the State Police Command’s Headquarters, Enugu. The Spokesperson of the police in Enugu, DSP Daniel Ndukwe while parading the suspects said their arrest was through diligent intelligence and coordinated efforts between Police Detectives of the Anti-Robbery Section (D9) of the State CID and Operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Tactical Squad of the Command. He recalled that, on the evening…

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Three police officers, who allegedly beat a student of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Suleiman Olayinka to death at Tanke Bridge in Ilorin, the state capital, have been arrested and detained. The spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Ejire Adeyemi Toun, disclosed this in a statement in Ilorin on Friday. Reports said that the incident occurred on Tuesday around 2 p.m. when the victim got off a motorcycle and was approached by three officers who then dragged him to the ground. An eyewitness claimed that the victim had…

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IGP Kayode Egbetokun The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has condemned the spate of extortion allegations against some officers of the force in various areas across the country. He specifically referenced a recent case involving officers from the Zone 16 Zonal Headquarters in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State. In this case, officers identified as ASP Emmanuel Ubong, Inspector Nse Okon, Inspector Adiewere Collins, and Inspector Kuromare Marine were accused of extorting the sum of N10m from some youths. According to a statement on Friday by the Force Spokesperson,…

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No fewer than four unknown gunmen suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed militia, the Eastern Security Network (ESN), have been neutralized by a crack team of security operatives in Enugu State. The security squad, comprising the Nigerian Army, the Police, and the DSS personnel, also recovered a cache of arms and ammunition from the gunmen while some of them fled into the bush with various degrees of gunshot injuries. The criminal elements were intercepted in the early hours of Wednesday and…

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