114 inspectors, rank and file have been decorated with their new ranks by the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Zone 5, Rasheed Akintunde. Akintunde made this known in a statement by the zone’s spokesman, DSP Emeka Iheanacho, in Benin on Wednesday. He charged the officers comprising 81 Sergeants promoted to Inspectors and 33 Corporals […]
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The Nigeria Police Force said it would arraign Dino Melaye, a senator and the four suspects rearrested for alleged conspiracy and unlawful possession of prohibited firearms at the Federal High Court in Lokoja, Kogi State on May 10. The suspects are: Kabiru Seidu, alias Osama 31; Nuhu Salisu, alias small 25; Musa Mohammed, alias Iko […]
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Some gunmen early on Tuesday invaded the police station at Gegu village on Lokoja – Abuja road, killing two of the policemen on duty. Spokesperson for Kogi State Police Command, William Aya, told journalists in Lokoja, the state capital that the gunmen also injured one of the suspects in police cell. He said the corpses […]
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A 13-year-old son of a policeman is suspected to have hanged himself in Gombe, the police said on Tuesday. DSP Mary Malum, the Police Public Relations Officer in Gombe State, said the boy, identified as Muhammadu Al-amin, was found hanging in his room. Malum said that about 4 p.m. on Monday, the father, Insp. Abdu […]
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Rioting and a fire in the cells of a Venezuelan police station in the central city of Valencia killed 68 people on Wednesday, according to the government and witnesses. Families hoping for news outside the police station were dispersed with tear gas and authorities did not give information until late into the evening. “The State […]
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Scores of security men including officials of the Department of State Security (DSS) and officers from the Lagos state police command invaded the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) office, Ikeja branch on Thursday. The siege followed a threat by the NBA to call out members on a protest tomorrow to coincide with President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit […]
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The Police Command in Kwara, on Wednesday paraded a suspected ritualist it arrested with three human skulls in Ilorin. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Lawan Ado, said that one Suleiman Adenifuja was caught with three human skulls along Ogbomosho-Eiyekorin Area, Ilorin, on March 26. Ado said that when the suspect was interrogated […]
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The Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim K. Idris,has ordered the immediate removal of Kogi state Commissioner of Police, CP Ali Janga. The IGP asked the CP Esa Sunday Ogbu, Commissioner of Police, Federal Operations, Force Headquarters, Abuja to immediately proceed and take over as the new Commissioner of Police of the State. The Police […]
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The Kogi State Command of the Nigeria Police Force on Wednesday announced the escape of six suspected criminals it identifies Kabiru Seidu a.k.a Osama, Nuhu Salisu a.k.a Small, Aliyu Isa, Adams Suleiman, Emmanuel Audu and Musa Mohammed from its custody. The suspects escaped from the ‘A’ Division Lokoja, where they were being detained. Four of […]
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The mysterious death of a 40-year-old, divorced mother-of-four inside a hotel room she and her younger lover has been taken over by the police and her young lover is being interrogated. The younger lover, 36, who hid the corpse and secretly buried her in an uncompleted building in Osara village, Abeokuta, is in police detention. […]
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