A 24-year-old lady Sheba Simon was stabbed with a knife by a phone snatcher in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital near Damaturu City College in Malali Byepass around 9:30pm on Saturday, April 27, 2024. It was learned that the victim was chatting with her phone after she dropped from a commercial tricycle and was trekking home from work when the attacker stabbed her with a knife and fled with her cell phone, leaving her in a...
The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended the gang of robbers responsible for the attack on a Divisional Police Officer, DPO, at the notorious Otedola Bridge. The arrest comes just two weeks after the daring attack on 9th April, where CSP Tokunbo Abaniwonda of Alausa Division was targeted by armed robbers while conducting an undercover operation. The robbers inflicted machete injuries on the DPO and stole her phone before escaping. The police refused to let...
Residents of the Bmuko community in the Dutse Baupma axis of Bwari Area Council, Abuja are reeling after gunmen stormed the community in a late-night raid on Monday, snatching four people. Residents reported that a large group of armed men, estimated around 30, arrived around 11:50 p.m. The gunmen fired shots into the air before targeting specific houses. According to a resident, Mr Isah, they seemed to have prior knowledge of their victims, breaking into...
A Boko Haram militant, Sajeh Yaga, willingly surrendered to Nigerian army troops on Sunday. The surrender took place in the town of Mafa, a location frequently targeted by Boko Haram attacks. Details surrounding the reasons for the militant’s decision to defect remain unclear. However, it might not be unconnected to the heightened military operations against the terrorists that have led to a wave of increased Boko Haram defections in recent months. The surrendered militant handed...
Eight members of the Civilian Joint Task Force, CJTF, were killed in Gamboru Ngala, Borno State, after stepping on an improvised explosive device, IED, believed to have been planted by the Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP, terrorists. The incident happened on Saturday as the CJTF members, a group of civilian volunteers who assist the Nigerian military in fighting Boko Haram and ISWAP, travelling to Maiduguri from Gamboru Ngala, a distance of 148 kilometers....
The Anambra State Police Command said it has arrested 16 cultists engaging in cult-related killings in Awka, the state capital. This was made known in a statement issued by the spokesman, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, on Saturday. According to him, about 21 others on the run, have been declared Ikenga said the arrested cultists, who were nabbed during series of intelligence-led manhunt, have been detained on the orders of the Commissioner of Police in Anambra, Aderemi...
Fear and uncertainty grip a community in Niger State, Nigeria, following the withdrawal of military troops stationed there. This comes two days after a deadly ambush on a military patrol that left several soldiers dead. The deadly ambush on Tuesday evening, targeted a convoy of military vehicles travelling near the town of Allawa. Insurgents, believed to be affiliated with a local militant group, launched a coordinated attack using small arms fire and improvised explosive devices...
Police Officers and other law enforcement agents have been charged to act by the force’s Standard Operational Procedures (SOP) and other extant laws guiding their overall conduct. Adamawa State Commissioner of Police CP Dankombo Morris gave the charge during Police/Community engagement “a Framework to prevent Shilla Gangsterism Kidnapping, Armed robbery, Cattle Rustling and other nefarious activities across the Northern Zone of the state. He warned that any Police Officer found acting contrary to their oaths...
In a rare display of bravery, a family in Zamfara State, Nigeria, successfully thwarted a kidnapping attempt and killed one of the attackers. The incident took place while the family, on their way to Kano, 311.95 kilometres from Zamfara, for wedding preparations, were ambushed by two gunmen along the Talata Mafara—Gusau highway. The gunmen were “blocking the road and halting vehicles,” said an eyewitness to PRNigeria. According to the report by PRNigeria, the bride-to-be’s family,...
A Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, pastor, Olugbenga Olawore, and 14 others kidnapped on Friday evening in Oyo State have been rescued. Pastor Olawore, who serves at the Heaven’s Gate Parish in Ogun State, was reportedly returning from Ipapo town where he went to arrange for his mother’s funeral. The kidnappers, yet to be identified, seized the travellers around 5:00 p.m. local time at the Maya axis of the Lanlate–Eruwa Road. While details about...
