The Adamawa State Police Command has confirmed the assassination of a Polytechnic lecturer, Yohanna Mbudai Bzegu, by yet-to-be-identified gunmen. Bzegu, a lecturer with the department of Mechanical Engineering at Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, was shot dead in the early hours of Thursday at his Bajabure residence, behind Anglican Junior Seminary, a satellite town on the outskirt of Yola, the state capital. A source close to the family who pleaded anonymity said the attackers, gained entrance...

ENUGU — In compliance with the Inspector General of Police Usman Alkali Baba’s nationwide ban on the use of SPY number plates, the Enugu State Command has directed Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) and Heads of all Tactical/Operational Units of the Command, to give full effect to the directive, by confiscating all SPY Number Plates currently in use in the State. Commissioner of Police, Enugu State Command, Abubakar Lawal fdc, issued this command via...

Following the recent attacked on the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Kuje where over 800 inmates, including 64 Boko Haram suspects, escaped, the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has charged security agencies manning the custodial centers across the country to remain vigilant so as to defeat criminal elements terrorizing the country. In a statement by his media aide Sola Fasure, the Minister gave the charge in Lagos when he made a surprise visit to Kirikiri...

ABUJA — The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has expressed dismay that security operatives abandoned their position to allow the criminals to have a free day when they stormed the medium-security custodial facility, Kuje in Abuja on Tuesday night and released 879 inmates with 64 of them being suspected members of the Boko Haram terrorist group. The Minister who spoke to journalists after inspecting the level of damages at the custodial centre on Friday evening...

ABUJA — One of the escapees following the recent attack on Kuje Maximum Custodial Centre in Abuja has been recaptured by the Police in Nasarawa. The State Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Ramhan Nansel in a statement says the recaptured escapee, Hassan Hassan whose name and picture is among the inmates in Boko Haram and Terrorism case was apprehended in Keffi Local Government Area of the state. The statement read in part:...

KADUNA — A community leader of Kufana, Daniel Garba says bandits have attacked Iburu village under Kufana district of Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State, abducted 15 people, and killed four other villagers. “The bandits stormed the community at night and killed three people while the fourth person was killed on his way to offer assistance. So far, they (bandits) kidnapped 15 of our people,” he said. He said the bandits were yet to...

YOLA — Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri has condemned the killing of Rev. Daniel Umaru of Church of The Brethren in Nigeria (EYN) Njairi, in Hong Local Government Area, with two of his sons, and the abducted of his 13-year-old daughter by gunmen. Fintiri, in a statement by his Press Secretary, Humwashi Wonosikou, condemned the deeds and asked relevant security agencies to get the unidentified gunmen. Governor Fintiri directed security agencies to scale up intelligence...