Category: POLICE & CRIME

The number of casualties  in the Sunday afternoon cult war  in  Anambra state has risen to sixteen. Recall that this afternoon eleven suspected cultists were killed in rival clashes at Nibo Community in Awka South local government area while three suspected cultists were killed at Opkuno in Awka Capital City. Latest report indicates that five more persons were also killed at Nibo Community as reprisal killings continued in the area. At about 1.30 pm this Sunday afternoon the New Yam Festival of the Nibo Community turned bloody and deadly when…

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A man, simply identified as Kadiri Yusuf, has fled after allegedly beating and injuring his two children, aged 11 and 13, in the Agege area of Lagos State. The Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos State, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this to journalists on Saturday. According to him, a concerned member of the public lodged a complaint at the police station. “The head teacher of a primary school in Orile Agege reported at Elere Division that one of her pupils, an 11-year-old girl, informed her that her father had beaten…

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Operatives of the Enugu State Police Command have neutralized two suspected kidnappers and rescued a male victim during a raid on a kidnappers’ hideout in Nokpa-Nike, Enugu East Local Government Area. The operation, which took place on the evening of October 17, 2024, was carried out by the command’s Anti-Kidnapping, Distress Response, and Special Intervention Squads. Acting on intelligence, the operatives stormed the location, leading to a gunfight as the kidnappers opened fire. Two suspects were shot dead during the encounter, while others escaped with gunshot injuries. The police confirmed…

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Egiji Atigwe, son of former Deputy Speaker of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Hon David Atigwe, has been named as the person providing guns to armed robbers and kidnappers. David is the elder brother of Hon Simon Atigwe, who lost his seat in the House of Representatives to Dennis Agbo of Labour Party last week following a Court of Appeal judgement on the rerun election for Udenu/Igboeze North Federal Constituency. A suspect, who was arrested for his involvement in robbery and kidnapping activities in Igboeze North local government area…

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Hell was let loose on Sunday afternoon in Agenebode, the headquarters of Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State as several persons were reportedly killed over allegations of kidnappings and killings in the area by suspected criminals. This was even as the police station in the area, alongside vehicles in the station, was set ablaze by irate youths who claimed the police were providing cover for the suspected hoodlums. The people claimed that the criminal elements were kidnapping and killing people in the area for suspected organ harvesting, hence…

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The Rivers State Police Command has commenced a full-scale investigation into the post-election violence that rocked several local government areas of the state, leading to the loss of life and the razing of three LGAs on Monday. The Commissioner of Police, Mustapha Mohammed, disclosed this while answering questions from journalists after an on-the-spot assessment of the three affected LGAs on Wednesday. Mohammed also revealed that a high-powered investigation team of seasoned police officers, led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, State Criminal Investigation Department, has been assigned the task, adding…

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Officials of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC and voters ran for their lives when police officers stormed Elekahia Primary School in Port Harcourt City local government area, on Saturday. About 21 Hilux patrol vans with heavily armed officers drove into the school which has 10 polling units. Officials of the Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSEIC) who had set up their stands were chased out of the Ward. One of the policemen was heard saying, “Come here, remove that vest. What are you doing here? Common move!” The…

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By Chuks Collins, Awka A yet-to-be-identified gunmen, Friday, stormed at Umunze, a major Anambra Community with Imo/Abia States, and kidnapped the President-General of the Umunze Progressive Union in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Ezekiel Iheazor, and a chieftain of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Nze Ike Okoli. The unfortunate incident according to eyewitness accounts took place at Nze Okoli’s residence in Lomu village during the Friday downpour heavily shooting sporadically into the air, in the early hours of the day. The hoodlums, apparently aided by the sporadic…

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A father trapped under an abolished indefinite jail term has made six attempts on his own life after serving 25 times longer than his original sentence, The Independent can reveal. James Lawrence was handed a discredited imprisonment for public protection (IPP) jail sentence with an 8-month minimum term in 2006 for threatening someone with a starting pistol. Then aged 20, he told the court he was carrying the imitation gun for protection after nearly losing his life in a stabbing in the same part of Southampton the year before. Now…

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Families of the two recently murdered indigenes of Akpawfu Community in Nkani East Local Government Area of Enugu State, have accused a traditional ruler in the area, Igwe Christopher Nnamani, and a human rights group, of facts misrepresentation on the incident. The bereaved family members have insisted that the suspected traditional ruler should be properly interrogated. NewsBits recalls that the deceased, namely, Chief Israel Nnaji and late Chukwudi Nweke Oka, were gruesomely murdered in their respective homes in June and July this year by gunmen who invaded their homes. While…

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