The Police command in Bauchi State on Thursday said it arrested 27 rape suspects and five others for various offences. DSP Ahmed Wakili, Police Spokesman for the command, made this known in a statement in Bauchi. ”We arrested 27 suspected rapists and five other suspects in connection with offences against property and disturbance of public peace,” Wakili said. He said that the arrest was in line with the police statutory duty of protection of lives...
The Police Command in Ebonyi has confirmed the killing of four officers by suspected armed robbers at Ezzamgbo junction of the Enugu-Abakaliki federal highway. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Phillip Maku made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday. Maku said that 12 persons comprising police officers and a commercial bank’s staff were in the entourage escorting a bullion van from Enugu to Abakaliki and were...
The Commissioner of Police in Kogi, Mr. Ede Ayuba, on Wednesday, presented to newsmen 28 suspected criminals, including one of the suspected killers of Late Nicholas Ofodile, businessman and owner of Chuks Supermarket, Lokoja. Ayuba, while displaying the suspects at the command headquarters in Lokoja, said the command had adopted comprehensive crime prevention and control strategies in recent times to combat criminality in the state. The strategy, according to him, included intensive patrol, raids of...
A woman, who does not want her name to be disclosed, on Wednesday, has accused a police officer identified as Peter Ebah of Saakpenwaa Police Division in the Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State of detaining and raping her in a guest house after being arrested for not putting on a nose mask. The victim, who is a widow and a mother of two, alleges that the police takes her away from the bus...
Fourteen persons are confirmed dead, 6 injured on Wednesday following the invasion of Agbudu community, Kogi state by unknown gunmen. According to state police commissioner, Ede Ayuba, who disclosed this while briefing journalists at the command headquarters in Lokoja, he was informed about the incident at about 2: 00 a.m. Mr Ayuba said that 13 of the slain victims were from the same family. “This morning around 2 a.m., my Area Commander called me to...
The Southern Kaduna Elders Forum (SOKAF), led by Zamani Lekwat, a former military governor of Rivers State, has called on President Buhari to fight against insecurity, curb the killings and destruction in the state. A statement released on Tuesday, the group lame red over the spate of attacks, saying it could not continue to sit and fold its arms in the face of continued violence that “portends a bleak future for generations yet unborn”. “Southern...
CHRSJ is calling for an investigation into high-level criminal activities involving the Police A human rights group, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice(CHRSJ) has called on the Inspector General of Police, Alhaji Adamu Muhammed, Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP)Zone 2 Zonal Headquarters and Lagos State Commissioner of Police and the leadership of the Police Service Commission (PSC) to beam searchlight into the activities of the Isheri-Oshun Divisional Police Station in Lagos State...
A coalition of 70 labour and civil society organisations (CSOs) tagged The Alliance for Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB), has said the federal government is incapable and cannot contain the violence in the north. This statement was a response to recent killings in Kaduna and other northern states; ASCAB accused the government of not making significant effort, stating that the central authority has the constitutional responsibility to ensure the protection of lives and property in...
The West African Pilot News story was to bring to light the arbitrary tactics of invading homes of suspects and arresting them by the police Ant-Cult Squad in Anambra. The residents of young men suspected to be members of cult groups are invaded in the dead of the night and arrested. Some of our readers and residents of Anambra state have reached out to complain about the activities of cult groups in parts of the...
Cameroonian authorities have apprehended no fewer than eight kidnappers and their firearm supplier at a border post with Nigeria, local sources can confirm. The firearm supplier is from the Song Local Government Area of Adamawa state. The arrest came barely two weeks after a series of joint security meetings by Nigerian and Cameroonian security operatives over banditry and kidnappings around border communities in Maiha border town. Those arrested include Umaru Shehu, Isyaku Dauda, Hammadu Yusuf,...
