The Special Security Squad codenamed “Operation Flush Out Kidnappers and Cultists” in Edo State set up by the State Governor, Monday Okpebholo has arrested more than 20 persons. Edo State Special Security Squad Against Cultism and Kidnapping is made up of the military, police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), and other sister security agencies. Other members of the squad are hunters, vigilante groups, repentant cultists, and other critical stakeholders in Edo State. The...

The Nigeria Police Force Zone 9 Police Command, Umuahia, has initiated an investigation to unravel an alleged extortion of N1.5 million involving operatives of the Zonal Command’s Special Intelligence Arms Recovery Unit, as revealed in a viral video posted by one Harrison Gwamnishu. This is contained in a statement by the Spokesperson of the Zonal Command, SP Iheanetu Bruno Chukwudera, who hinted that the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of the Zone, AIG Kanayo Uzuegbu, has...

A kidnapped victim, Mathew John Zephaniah has been successfully rescued by Rivers State Police Command following a coordinated operation by operatives of the Command. The police operatives, drawn from tactical units and divisions within the Oyigbo Area Command, collaborated with OSPAC local vigilante groups to track down the kidnappers in Agbonchia Forest, Eleme Local Government Area. This latest feat was stated in a press statement on Wednesday signed by the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of...

No fewer than 70 vigilante members were on Monday, killed in an ambushed attack at the Kukawa and Bunyun communities of Kanam Local Government Area of Plateau State. Aliyu Baffa, Chairman of the vigilante group in Kukawa, who confirmed the incident, said his team came under heavy surprise attack when a combined team of vigilantes from different formations in Wase LGA were on their way to identify bandits’ hideouts. “The team ran into an ambush...