Sunday Okoebor, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), was shot dead by gunmen who stormed a residential area in Asaba, the capital city of Delta State on Tuesday morning for a robbery operation. The robbers gunned down the cop during a fierce exchange of gunfire with the police who were battling to foil the robbery. The police were nearly overpowered by the gunmen when troops of the Nigerian Army in Asaba dubbed “Operation Still Water...

Armed hoodlums attacked a police roadblock in Imo State and gunned down two policemen. The unknown killers, dressed as military men, instantly opened fire on the four cops who were at the location for routine security patrol. The incident happened at the Ahiara junction in Ahiazu-Mbaise local government area of the State on Monday. The two officers killed were a divisional police officer (DPO) of the LGA and an inspector. A stray bullet reportedly killed...

One Benjamin Ezeukwe who organised a fake sales promo reducing the price of Dangote cement and defrauding Nigerians has been apprehended by the Police in Lagos. This is contained in a statement issued by the Lagos State Public Relations Officer Benjamin Hundeyin, who explained that millions of Naira were lost by several customers who fell for the scam. According to the statement, the investigation has shown that the suspect has committed multiple additional scams of...

A gang of bandits operating in Maru County of Zamfara State led by one Damina raided four villages on Friday night and abducted more than 100 locals. The gunmen struck over the failure of the locals to keep up with the payment of a N110 million levy as retribution after Nigerian troops killed four of their men. Damina accuses the locals of giving soldiers tip-offs of his gang’s movements. Several remote communities in Zamfara State...

Five Amawbia Correctional Service Center inmates in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State have been set free. A non-governmental organization (NGO), Abu Mmaduaburochukwu Foundation, perfected their bail conditions. The freedom ceremony was held in the presence of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) officers, Nigeria Police delegates from Zone 13 Ukpo, led by its Zonal Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ihunwo Josephine, members of the press, and the management team of the Foundation at...

A 53-year-old suspect identified as Usman Tela Ahmadu, a resident of Samunaka, Yola North Local Government Area of Adamawa State has been arrested for Sexually Assaulting a Mentally Challenged Minor. According to the spokesman of the command, SP Suleiman Yahya Nguroje, the Suspect, hails from Maiduguri in Borno State and resides in the Area as an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) receiving gifts and undue support/ sympathy from the locals. The release reads in parts: “The...

A gang of bandits terrorising Tangaza local government area of Sokoto State abandoned their captives and fled when men of the Nigerian Army came upon them unexpectedly. The terrorists were hiding in the thick Buani forest in Alya Fulani village. The soldiers rescued 30 hostages and burnt down the fleeing terrorists’ camps. The operation, the Nigerian Army said in a social media post on Wednesday, was carried out on 21 November by the Joint Task...

A 10 years old boy has been rescued from kidnappers in Oko community, Orumba North Local Government Area, close to the Federal Polytechnic, Oko. An eyewitness, Comr Edwins Arinzechukwu John who narrated the incident on Facebook said he was at Total filing station, when security men rescued the boy from his kidnapers, who they put in the trunk of their ash Toyota Camry car. He said: “Just this evening as I was buying yam at...