The Nigerian Senate has ordered an investigation into last Friday’s attacks on four banks and a police station in Otukpo, Benue State. On Friday, October 20, heavily armed robbers gunned down more than eight persons including four cops when they attacked the Otukpo police station and raided four commercial banks in the commercial district of the town. Millions were carted away from branches of First Bank of Nigeria United Bank of Africa, Stanbic IBTC Bank...

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Gombe State Command, have arrested 76 suspects in connection with same-sex weddings. Buhari Sa’ad, State Public Relations Officer of the command disclosed this while parading the suspects before journalists at the command’s headquarters in Gombe on behalf of the state Commandant, Mohammed Muazu. Sa’ad said out of the 76 suspects, 59 are males with 21 said to have confessed to being homosexuals, adding that 17 females...

…Orders adequate deployment of operatives for security, safety In light of the current global security challenges, with particular attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Inspector-General of Police, Acting IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, emphasizes the importance of law-abiding conduct and the pursuit of peace in all interactions with fellow members of the public. ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters in a press statement with reference no, CZ.5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.6/71 stated that the IGP urged individuals to...

Anambra state government through Operations Clean And Healthy Anambra, OCHA Brigade has paraded six suspects for drugs trafficking, phone snatching, cable vandalism and other related crimes. The suspects were arrested in different places during raids in Awka and Bridge Head Onitsha. The raid was carried out by the joint enforcement team of OCHA Brigade and Anambra state Vigilante Service who were on a 24hr surveillance in critical flashpoints in the state. Addressing the press during...

Police in Adamawa State, Northeast Nigeria have arrested a 40-year-old father of 20 children for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl Muhammed Umar, who hails from Gusupan, Toungo Local Government Area of the state, admitted that he had sex with the minor, insisted that the victim lured him and that she did not cry during or after the act. The suspect, who had married four wives and divorced two, said he was willing to take the...

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested 51 people for misinformation on the disappearance of manhood and charged them to court for causing a breach of peace in the FCT. FCT Commissioner of Police, Haruna Garba, while addressing newsmen at the command’s headquarters, said about 62 cases of alleged disappearance of manhood were reported across the territory. “The first case of male organ disappearance was first recorded in Gwagwalada on 21/09/2023. It has spread...

A fake land agent, Mr Rapuluchukwu Kachi, has been arrested for selling land belonging to someone else to his sister, for the burial of their mother. Kachi who was paraded at the Zone 13 police command, after he was arrested, confessed to selling the land to a businesswoman, Mrs Ogechukwu Mbonu who is also his sister, who later buried her late mother on the land. Kachi who was paraded at the zonal command of the...

….. Recover 119 arms and ammunition The Anambra State Police Command has arrested 128 suspects over their alleged involvement in various crimes across the state. Parading some of the suspects at the command’s Headquarters Amawbia, on Monday, shortly after updating the media on his three months achievement in office, the State Commissioner of Police, CP Adeoye Aderemi, said, “Out of the 128 suspects, 30 were arrested for insurgency, 38 were arrested for cultism, armed robbery...