IGP orders strategy overhaul to combat insecurity

Acting Inspector- General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mohammed Adamu, has ordered senior officers to carry out an anti crime strategy overhaul, to effectively tackle the waves of insecurity across the Nation. He gave the directive on Thursday at a strategic meeting with senior officers from the rank of Commissioner of Police, CP and above, at […]

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Police arrest 33 suspected cultists in Lagos

The Police in Lagos have arrested 33 persons allegedly involved in the clash on Wednesday between two rival cult groups at Fadeyi-Onipanu area where two persons were killed. Spokesman of the command, DSP Bala Elkana, made this known in a statement on Thursday, and said that two locally-made short guns with 10 live cartridges and […]

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Suspected kidnappers of Lagos fire service boss arrested

Two members of the gang that kidnapped Lagos State Fire Service boss, Rasaki Musibau and six others were arrested on Wednesday. They were arrested in an operation led by the Command’s tactical team led by the Officer –in- Charge of anti- kidnapping unit, SP Bulus R Musa, according to a statement by Lagos State Police […]

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Police vow to crush banditry in North West, Central

Acting Inspector General of Police, Ag. IGP Mohammed Adamu has assured the people of North West and North Central Nigeria that the Force would bring the incessant banditry attacks in the areas to a permanent end. He said the Police are working in collaboration with the Military and other security agencies to curb the menace. […]

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Kidnappers contact fire service chief’s family

– Police: we’re close on them The kidnappers of the Lagos State Fire Service Acting Director Rasaki Musibau have contacted his family members, it was learnt on Monday. Musibau and six others were abducted at Iwoye along the Epe-Itoikin road, Ikorodu. The incident, it was gathered, occurred while the fire chief and others was going to Epe.T […]

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Gunmen kidnap Lagos fire service boss, six others

Director of the Lagos State Fire Service, Rasaki Musibau and seven others have been kidnapped by gunmen along Itoikin-Epe road in Ikosi-Ejirin Local Council Development Area, LCDA in the state. At the time of filing this report on Sunday, the identity of the seven others abducted by the gunmen within the axis was still unknown. […]

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Citizens on edge, as kidnappers seize nation’s jugular

When the first cases of kidnappings involving expatriate oil workers were recorded in the Niger Delta in the early 2000s, not many knew that it would grow to become a national malaise in less than two decades or thereabouts. Apart from the militancy in the Niger Delta, the deadly Islamic insurgency in the North orchestrated […]

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