Category: POLICE & CRIME

By NewsBits Security Forces in Imo state through a coordinated intelligence report has busted the camp of the unknown gunmen at Akokwa, Arondizuogu after a long gun duel which resulted to the death of some of the criminals and others arrested. These criminal elements have been known to be behind several attacks in the state such as the killing of policemen in Mbaise, Aba Branch in Ehime Mbano, burning down of police stations, attack, and attempted kidnapping of former Governor Ikedi Ohakim, abduction of Miss. P.P. Johnson, a female soldier…

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By NewsBits Operatives of the Enugu State Police Command serving in Nkanu East Police Division said they have arrested two criminal suspects at Obinagu-Etiti Nara-Unateze in Nkanu East Local Government Area The suspects, Chekwube Nwobodo aged 27, and Ifeanyi Edeh aged 30, were arrested on January 3, 2024, at about 2.40 p.m. According to a statement by the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Daniel Ndukwe, the arrest of the suspects followed swift response to a distress call by the operatives. Ndukwe disclosed that other members of the gang that specialised in…

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The Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Mr Solomon Arase, has warned the commission’s officials, deployed for the recruitment of new Constables, against the collection of money from applicants and families. Arase, a retired Inspector-General of Police, gave the warning at a pre-deployment briefing of the physical and credentials screening officials on Saturday, ahead of the exercise starting on Monday across the federation. This is contained in a statement on Sunday by the commission spokesperson, Mr Ikechukwu Ani. According to Arase, it is not just a recruitment exercise, but…

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The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) said it has arrested a fake doctor, one Igwe Gift Okechukwu, involved in criminal conspiracy, organ trafficking, fraud, cybercrime, stealing, impersonation, cheating, and identity theft. The arrest was made in Nasarawa State by operatives of the Force Criminal Investigation Department following the suspect’s fraudulent activities in Owerri, Imo State. The suspect, parading himself as Henry Ovie, a neurologist newly transferred to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri, tricked a point of sale (POS) operator, Anita Chinwe Mathias, into entering a code on her POS machine.…

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A Mobile Police officer attached to the 43 PMF of the Lagos State Police Command has been murdered on New Year’s Day in Adamawa State. The officer, identified as Inspector Richard Felix, was attacked at Sangamu Hotel, Yola South Local Government Area of Adamawa by some men at about 12:10 a.m. on Monday. The police in Jambutu were said to have raced to the scene of the incident, where the 46-year-old policeman was discovered with severe injuries on his chest, our correspondent reliably gathered. The cop was rushed to the…

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A police Inspector, Jonathan Okouromi, was said to have shot dead one Sergeant Abosele Akhere, both of the Edo State Police Command. The incident occurred at about 9pm on Sunday, in Ikponwosa/Egban community, Egor Local Government Area of Edo. Operatives of the Edo State Police Anti-Kidnapping Squad and those of the Control Intelligence Rapid Response Squad had embarked on an operation to apprehend some suspected cultists. Our correspondent gathered that suspected cultists had been terrorising the said Ikponwosa/Egban community in recent times. In the course of the operation, a notorious…

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It was a sad moment last Saturday evening as three tenants in Umuahia realised that four of their children had allegedly been taken away by their new neighbour who just packed in three days earlier. The tenants, all women, were Madam Ngozi Kingsley from Okon Ohafia Ohafia LGA, Madam Ifeanyi Uduma of Okon Ohafia and sister to Ngozi Kingsley and Madam Blessing Peter Obasi from Nwoke compound, Elugwu Nguzu Edda in Ebonyi State. All are traders in Umuahia. According to them in an interview with Punch, the suspect (woman) whose…

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By NewsBits Police detectives have rescued four siblings who were abducted from their residential home in Enugwu Agidi in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State, last Friday. The State Police Public Relations Officer, Tochukwu Ikenga disclosed this to newsmen on Saturday. . He said: “On December 15, 2023, at about 2300 the Police at Abagana received information via Police hot line that suspected herdsmen had abducted four children from a family at Achalla Village, Enugwu Agidi in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State. “Immediately the Commissioner of Police,…

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