The Adamawa State Police Command has dismissed Police Constable Mahmood Muhammed formerly attached to Dumne Divisional Police Headquarters in Adamawa State over Defamation of Character, Culpable Homicide, and Unlawful exercise of Authority According to a statement by the Adamawa State Police Command Spokesman SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje, another Police officer Insp Ahmed Suleiman also formally attached to Dumne Divisional Police Headquarters was found guilty of the same offences. The Statement reads in part: “The Men...

Operatives of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Adamawa State Police Command have arrested a Cyber Crime suspects who uses a Computer network device to defraud members of the public. According to the Press release by the image made by the Command SP Suleiman Yahaya Nguroje the suspects, all residents of Shagari Phase 2, Yola town, Yola South local government area of the state have been hacking into people’s accounts to debit their accounts...

Anambra State Police have arrested two women for forcefully taking into custody two underage children of one widow, Sharon Nwosu. The two women were simply identified as Felicia Nwosu and Chinenye Nwosu, from Ndiowu, Orumba North Local Government Area of the state. They were taken to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Awka, for questioning. The suspects were said to be the mother-in-law and sister-in-law of the widow. They reportedly took the widow’s children after her...

A 38-year old man Abubakar Saidu and his wife, along with three other suspects, have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a two-year-old for ransom. The Nasarawa State Police Public Relations Officer, PRO, DSP Ramhan Nansel who disclosed this during a news briefing in Lafia the Nasarawa State capital, explained that the suspect conspired with four others to kidnap the son of his neighbour. DSP Nansel pointed out that two weeks later, the suspects called the...

The Nigerian Police Force has beefed up security in Rivers State University, Port Harcourt following a robbery at one of the female hostels on Wednesday night. The robbers, armed with guns and machetes, invaded female Hostel D late Wednesday night and operated at will without interruption. On Thursday, female students protested within the campus, decrying repeated criminal attacks in their hostels. One of the students who spoke to Vanguard on condition of anonymity said the...