Hoodlums in Calabar, the Cross River State capital have vandalized an 18-seater NUJ bus conveying food items from the State Emergency Management Agency warehouse to the Ernest Etim Press Centre, Calabar. The hoodlums beat up the NUJ bus driver, Mr. Joseph Akpaenin, as well as the NUJ auxiliary staff, Mr. Saviour Ekpenyong. They also descended on journalists, critically maiming one of them, a Nigerian Tribune reporter, Joseph Abasi-Abasi. After beating up the journalists, the hoodlums...

The Delta State Police Command has apprehended four suspects for allegedly colluding with kidnappers to collect ransom payments from their victims. According to the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, the suspects used their bank accounts to receive the ransom payments, deducting between 15 per cent and 40 per cent as their share before remitting the balance to the kidnappers. The suspects were identified as Chimerije Joshua Nwakpa, Eze Levy Onyekachi, Ezemma Maxwell Nnadozie,...

A Mobile Police officer with Mopol 6, Maiduguri, and serves as a security detail at the Borno State House of Assembly, Sergeant Linus Wadzani has killed his father ASP Wadzani Ntasiri (Rtd). The incident occurred in the Tudu area of the Maduganari community behind the Borno State Police Command headquarters in Maiduguri. Briefing Journalists at the Borno State Police Command Headquarters on Monday, the command’s spokesman, Kenneth Daso, stated that the deceased had served at...

Two male suspects were arrested by operatives of the Enugu State Police Command serving in the New Haven Division for vandalizing a transformer and solar-powered streetlights in New Haven, Enugu. In the police bulletin signed by DSP Daniel Ndukwe, Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, the vandals were arrested on the 15th and 16th of July, 2024 by Police operatives on routine patrol along the Powerline area of New Haven. One of the hoodlums named Augustine...

The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) on Thursday released the pictures, names, and other information about 31 inmates who escaped from the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Suleja, FCT Command. Recall that on Wednesday, 24 April 2024, the perimeter wall of the facility collapsed following a heavy downpour which facilitated the escape of about 119 inmates. The Service Public Relations Officer, SPRO Assistant Controller of Corrections (ACC) Abubakar Umar made the call in a statement on Thursday...