The Kano State Command of the Nigeria Police Force on Saturday confirmed three girls died of suffocation inside a parked car in Sabon Gari area of Kano metropolis. “The car has been parked there for more than one year; the girls were playing around it and later locked themselves inside. “Apparently, they could not open […]
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Two people believed to be friends with embattled South African President Jacob Zuma have been arrested. South Africa’s elite police – the hawks – stormed the residence of the Gupta brothers accused of corruption, influence peddling and exerting pressure on the government. One of the brothers and another person were whisked off by the hawks, […]
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The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has directed the police to vacate the headquarters of the Peace Corps of Nigeria in Abuja, within 24 hours. The building has been sealed by its operatives since February 28, 2017. The panel gave this directive at a public hearing on Tuesday, after deliberating on a petition […]
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The Benue State Command of the Nigerian Police Force has discovered the lifeless remain of one of the two officers declared missing. Suspected herdsmen had attacked a police patrol team on Saturday after which four officers went missing. The officers were returning from an assignment from some villages in Logo local government area of the […]
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Policemen estimated to be about 40 in number have been deployed in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) headquarters in Abuja. It was gathered that some individuals believed to be in support of the recently reinstated Executive Secretary of the NHIS, Prof. Usman Yusuf, are expected to hold a solidarity rally at the agency. Yusuf, […]
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In an interview with NAN on Sunday, Mike Okiro said the number of police officers in the country is grossly inadequate for the population. He requested for the recruitment of more personnel. The issue of paucity of funds, he said, had been one of the problems hindering the recruitment of more police officers for enhanced […]
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The Benue State Command of the Nigerian Police Force has said two of four policemen declared missing after cattle herders attacked their patrol van had been found. Moses Yamu, spokesman of the command, reportedly confirmed the development. Yamu said the officers were in “sound” state. “Two of the men have rejoined their colleagues while the […]
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Four men of the Benue state command of the Nigerian Police Force have been confirmed missing after suspected herdsmen attacked a police patrol team in the state on Saturday. The confirmation of the development was made by Moses Yamu, spokesman of the command. The attackers were said to have opened fire on the team returning […]
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Kassim Afegbua, the spokesman for former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, has recorded his his experience over the last one week in chronological order. Mr. Afegbua’s ordeal started last Sunday when he released a statement on behalf of Mr. Babangida about the state of the nation. In the statement, Mr. Babangida expressed his misgivings about President […]
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The police in Edo say they have arrested members of a police patrol team allegedly responsible for the killing of a commercial driver on Tuesday morning. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Johnson Kokumo, said this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Benin. According to Mr. Kokumo, members […]
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