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Five arrested for stealing Warri-Itakpe new rail track in Delta Published 14 May 2021 FIVE middle-aged men have been arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Police in Delta State for allegedly vandalising the newly rehabilitated rail track of the Nigeria Railway Corporation along its Warri-Itakpe axis. Police sources alleged that the suspected vandals maliciously cut several sections of the track around Kilometre 30, Adogo (Kogi State) section of the rail. Officials of the NRC reportedly discover...

Seventeen southern governors met on Tuesday in Asaba, Delta State and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to convoke a national dialogue to resolve all the contentious issues heating up the polity. They also called on President Buhari to address the nation on the spate of insecurity in the country. We won’t allow people denigrate Buhari […]

Views: Visits 1,613 Owing to the incessant attacks on police and other security formations in the South-East, the Nigerian Police Force (Delta State Command) has issued a red alert, urging its personnel to refrain from escorting their principals to states in the region. According to a wireless message sighted by The Street Journal, the police accused the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its security outfit of being behind the frequent attacks on security operatives. The message w...

Suspected cultist stabs Delta community youth leader to death On By Ochuko Akuopha Youth Leader of Agbowhiame community, Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr. Joseph Irhobo has been stabbed to death by a suspected cultist. The deceased, it was gathered, met with his untimely death on Wednesday, while trying to resolve a dispute between his killer and a petty female trader in the community. Sources said an argument had broken out between the suspected cultist and the trader, Mrs...

Punch Newspapers Sections Dele Ogunyemi, Warri Published 8:57 pm A gang of daredevil criminals stormed Ashaka community in Ndokwa East Local Government Area of Delta State in the early hours of Tuesday killing a police Inspector simply named Musa, burnt a police patrol van and carted away the Ak-47 service rifle of the slain cop. Consequently, the gory incident threw the entire community into mourning. The PUNCH gathered that trouble started as early as 4.30 am when three policemen of Ashaka D...

TODAY March 14, 2021 Police operatives of the Delta State Command yesterday nabbed three men with 50 wraps of drugs suspected to be cocaine. Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Edafe Bright, yesterday disclosed that the hooligans were arrested in various spots in Warri axis of the state. According to Edafe, “On 12th March 2021, patrol team from ‘A’ Division Warri, raided black spots at Macaver street, in course of the raid, three suspects, were arrested. The two suspects identif...

Share A 16-year-old boy, Obi Ebie and six others have been arrested for stealing a Tecno Camon 15 phone valued at N63, 000,  possession of firearms and other offences. The suspects were apprehended at various points by operatives of the Delta State Police Command between March 3 and Thursday 11, 2021. It was gathered that following a report of stealing of mobile phones by hoodlums using tricycles and motorcycles in Asaba and other parts of the state, the Commissioner of Police, Delta State, CP...

Punch Newspapers Sections Dele Ogunyemi, Warri A middle-aged butcher at the popular Sapele main market, simply identified as Efe, was on Sunday shot dead in the community by gunmen. Efe’s murder was coming up barely 24 hours after Okiemute Sowho, a Senior Special Assistant on Youth Development to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, was killed in the same Sapele metropolis. The PUNCH gathered that Efe, who was into cow meat sales was shot dead along New Road axis by Poultry Road Junction in the town. Sour...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The students and teachers of Government Science College Kagara, Niger State who were abducted by bandits last week, have been released. They were dropped off at different locations on Sunday night. The State government confirmed the development to newsmen in a statement. 2. All passengers abducted by suspected bandits while travelling with the Niger State Transport Agency, NSTA, have been released....

Punch Newspapers Sections   DELE OGUNYEMI Suspected gunmen on Saturday reportedly shot dead the Special Assistant to Delta State Governor on Youth Development, Okiemute Sowho, in Sapele. Witnesses said that Sowho, popularly known as Daddy K, was shot at a close range along Crudas axis by Akintola Road in the metropolis. The gunmen were said to have driven in a white Venza and drove off after killing Sowho. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for Delta State Command, DSP Onome Onovwakpoy...