Hundreds of women and youths on Friday mounted a roadblock on the highway leading from Makurdi to Lafia and Abuja protesting the killing of five people in two villages of Guma Local Government Area of Benue State. The protest had caused untold hardship for travelers moving in and out of Makurdi, the Benue State capital.Some locals said assailants who besieged the rural communities of Ngban had killed three people on Thursday night and another two...

No fewer than 110 persons have been prosecuted by the Adamawa State Police Command for their involvement in looting public and private warehouses in Jimeta, the twin state capital of the state capital. Adamawa State Police Command Spokesman, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, who confirmed this said the suspects were charged for carting away both food and nonfood items from the warehouses. SP Nguroje explained that security agencies have recovered many of the items, while the...

The operatives of Anambra State Police Command and the Anambra Vigilante Group in the Ogbaru area of the State have burst another notorious criminal gang operating in the State. This was contained in a statement issued on Saturday by DSP Ikenga Tochukwu, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Anambra State Police Command. According to him, the officers also recoverd some arms and stolen tricycles from the deadly gang. He said: “The Police in Ogbaru...