Category: Crime

Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed the attack on Ungwan Aku village, in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state in which 20 people were reportedly killed on Monday. The Command’s spokesman, DSP Yakubu Sabo, said 21, not 20 people as earlier reported, were killed by suspected bandits in two communities in Kajuru. He added […]

Death toll from xenophobic attacks rises to 6 in one month THE death toll of Nigerians killed in South Africa has continued to rise with another two being the latest victims in ongoing xenophobic attacks on foreigners in that country. It was learnt that the latest victims – Bonny Iwuoha and Goziem Akpenyi – were […]

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. […]

– 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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

The Speaker of the Zamfara State House Assembly, Alhaji Sanusi Rikiji, on Friday said no fewer than 50 persons including members of Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) were killed in Zamfara on Tuesday. Rikiji, who revealed this during a condolence visit to Kaura Namoda emirate, attributed the incidence to CJTF confrontation with bandits in a […]

Lagos State Police boss, Mr Zubairu Muazu, has reportedly paid a condolence visit to the family of Kolade Johnson, a soccer fan who was allegedly shot dead by men of the Anti-Cultism Squad on March 31. Johnson, a chef, the only child of his parents and a father of one, was allegedly killed on March 31 […]

The Presidency has disclosed that culprits who allegedly killed Kolade Johnson in a recent fatal shooting in Lagos have been arrested, and are undergoing disciplinary procedures. It reacted just as the Senate declared its commitment to the passage of the Police Reform Bill “to ensure that the Police Force is more efficient and responsive to […]

A man suspected to be mentally unstable on Saturday jumped to his death from a bank ’s network mast in Sango area of Ibadan. Confirming the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria, the Oyo State Police Public Relation officer, Olugbenga Fadeyi, said the naked victim came to the Wema Bank branch in Sango. Fadeyi said […]