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...

A Staff of the Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency (ADSEMA), two Vigilante members, and five others are now assisting the police in their investigation of looting a government warehouse located in Jimeta, the twin capital of Adamawa State. The Adamawa State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje in a statement said the arrest followed reliable information received about the organized crime coordinated by the syndicate including four women. According to the statement 98...

A recent report by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, has revealed that Nigerians paid bribes a staggering 87 million times to public and private officials in 2023. This number, although concerning, shows a slight decrease in the frequency of bribery compared to 2019. In 2023, an estimated 27 per cent of Nigerians who interacted with a public official admitted to paying a...

Substandard, falsified, and banned products worth over N20 million have been seized by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in a major raid carried out across some markets in Sokoto state. Similarly, four suspects were arrested after the screening of 17 shops during the raids. The agency in its X platform said the operation which was carried out by the Investigation and Enforcement/Federal Task Force on Fake Drugs and Unwholesome...

Four persons who kidnapped the former Bayelsa State Commissioner for Trade and Investment in Federal Otokito to Igbomotoru Busthe  and demanded ransom in 2022 have been sentenced to 40 years each in prison. The convicted persons were arrested by operatives of the Operation Puff Adder led by Chris Nwaogbo and believed to be boys working with a prominent Ex-Militant leader from Southern Ijaw Local Government area of the State. The Police Prosecuting Counsel, Stella Jerry-Friday,...