… As CP assures justice for slain Rivers DPO The Rivers State Police Command has arrested and detained 13 police officers in various parts of Port Harcourt over indecent dress while on duty. Olatunji Disu, the State Commissioner of Police disclosed this during a live programme organised by the Force Public Relations Department transmitted on a radio station monitored by our reporter. According to Disu, the arrested officers were picked up during a patrol by...

The Taraba State Chairman of the Hunters Association, Adamu Dantala has confirmed that 15 of his members were killed during an encounter with bandits. He told Daily Trust that the bandits also ambushed his members near Dakka town in Bali Local Government Area and killed three hunters. “We need government and community support to fully arm us the hunters because we are not given any funds to support families of those killed or treat those...

Unknown gunmen, suspected to be armed robbers, have killed the account and finance director of the Ogun State government, Taiwo Oyekanmi. Oyekanmi was shot dead on Wednesday by robbers who accosted the bullion van that drove him to a bank to make some hefty withdrawals. The robbers attacked the government official, his driver and an aide on their way back to the office from the bank. The gunmen carted away with every penny in the...

Police authorities in Katsina State, on Tuesday, confirmed the death of three notorious bandits’ leaders whose gangs terrorise Jibia local government areas of the State and its environs. The bandits’ lords, called Bala Wuta, Dogo Na Sahura and Hassan Bukuru, were killed last Saturday, 25 November. Police spokesperson Abubakar Aliyu said, via a press statement, that the bandits opened fire on some policemen and local citizen guards on a routine security patrol. “The officers valiantly...

Sunday Okoebor, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), was shot dead by gunmen who stormed a residential area in Asaba, the capital city of Delta State on Tuesday morning for a robbery operation. The robbers gunned down the cop during a fierce exchange of gunfire with the police who were battling to foil the robbery. The police were nearly overpowered by the gunmen when troops of the Nigerian Army in Asaba dubbed “Operation Still Water...

Armed hoodlums attacked a police roadblock in Imo State and gunned down two policemen. The unknown killers, dressed as military men, instantly opened fire on the four cops who were at the location for routine security patrol. The incident happened at the Ahiara junction in Ahiazu-Mbaise local government area of the State on Monday. The two officers killed were a divisional police officer (DPO) of the LGA and an inspector. A stray bullet reportedly killed...