Category: POLICE & CRIME

The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has ordered stoppage of Point-of-Sales (POS) machines and other electronic mobile money transaction devices within police stations and other police facilities nationwide. Egbetokun said the ban became imperative following public outcry on alleged illegal and illicit transactions of POS machine operators with certain police operatives. The police boss, who spoke through the force spokesman, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the ban was aimed at preserving the integrity and security of police operation. He stressed that the directive was also to forestall perceived corrupt practices, adding that…

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At least three villages have been sacked by terrorists as banditry and kidnapping for ransom escalated in Katsina State, North-West Nigeria. According to SaharaReporters the three villages in Kurfi Local Government Area of the state were sacked and a police station torched in a banditry raid that claimed five lives. The affected villagers who are now taking refuge in other communities in the state, staged a peaceful protest on Friday, demanding the restoration of security. Gunmen were reported to have stormed Wurma village and opened fire sporadically, forcing residents to…

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Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed the Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) in charge of Zurmi Divisional Police in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The bandits also razed the police station. Confirming the incident via a statement issued on Monday, February 19, 2024, the Zamfara State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Yazid Abubakar, said the bandits wielding sophisticated weapons attacked the police station on Sunday, February 18. Abubakar said the policemen on duty retaliated and repelled the attack in a gun duel which led to the death of…

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By NewsBits Mrs Eucharia Agbasimalo, the wife of kidnapped candidate of the Labour Party during the November 2021 Anambra State governorship election, Obiorah Agbasimalo, has told an Ihiala High Court sitting in Nnewi, Anambra State, that the two defendants, Chukwudi Odimegwu and Maxwell Nwokolo, currently standing trial before the court have a hand in her husband’s kidnap. Eucharia said from her conversations with one of the defendants (Nwokolo) to his confessional statements at the police and how he collected a total sum of N5.4million as ransom, without releasing their victim,…

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By NewsBits President Bola Tinubu says his administration is evolving home-grown solutions to address the nation’s food security challenges by setting up schemes to support local production and discourage all forms of rent-seeking that are associated with food importation. The President made the declaration at a meeting with 36 state governors, attended by Vice-President Kashim Shettima, the National Security Adviser, the Inspector-General of Police, the Director-General of the DSS, and some ministers at the State House in Abuja on Thursday. On security, President Tinubu approved the establishment of a committee…

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By NewsBits The Forum of Ethnic Youth Presidents in Nasarawa State has called on the Federal Government to immediately proscribe the Nomad Vigilante group inaugurated recently in the state by the President of Myetti Allah Kautal Hore, Alhaji Bello Bodejo. The group also demanded that Bodejo should be put behind bars and thoroughly investigated. It alleged that in Nasarawa alone, over 80 per cent of kidnappers and armed robbers in the correctional centres in the state are Fulanis, some of whom are not even of Nigerian origin. Addressing journalists at…

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The Nasarawa State Commissioner of Police, Umar Shehu Nadada, has declared the Nomad Vigilante Group recently unveiled in Nasarawa State by Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore illegal. CP Shehu made the declaration when the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Nasarawa State Council, paid him a courtesy call in his office at the State Command Headquarters Shenda Road in Lafia, the state capital, on Tuesday. “The Nomad vigilante group are on their own. No formal report to the police about the formation of the group. I do not recognize…

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By NewsBits Kidnappers have abducted passengers of two Abuja-bound buses in the Inele-Eteke Ogugu, New Road area of Kogi East district. It was learnt that the incident involved a GIG and ABC Transport buses heading to Abuja from the eastern part of the country. A source said that the GIG bus left Umuahia in Abia State at 7:30 am on Saturday on its way to Abuja, the nation’s seat of power. In the wake of the abduction, he said GIG had contacted security services to track down the abductors. Meanwhile,…

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The Lagos State Police Command said it has successfully apprehended a suspected kingpin of a child trafficking and labour syndicate after three months of intelligence gathering. The police said the arrest comes as a significant breakthrough in combating the illegal activities of the syndicate, which reportedly brings underaged children from the northern part of Nigeria to Lagos State for child labour and other illicit purposes. SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, confirmed the arrest and subsequent rescue of underaged children. He said, “In the process,…

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By NewsBits The Enugu State Police Command said it has taken note of a recent article published in a section of the mainstream media on January 16, 2024, alleging a disturbance involving gunmen in the Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State. Upon thorough examination of the report and a comprehensive review of available records, the Command unequivocally refuted the contents as “misleading, inaccurate, fictitious, and sensational.”  The article made baseless claims, such as the alleged abduction of seven wedding guests in the mentioned local government, for which no evidence…

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