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By Michael Olugbode National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has busted an online drug trafficking cartel that sells drugged cookies, cakes, brownies and all sorts of illicit substances to residents of Abuja and beyond, through the cyber space. A statement on Sunday by the spokesman of the anti-drug law enforcement agency, Femi Babafemi, said the raid on Friday and Saturday resulted in the arrest of five members of the cartel. He said they were arrested during sting operations carried out b...

Share In what appears to have become commonplace onslaught on security personnel across the country, no fewer than 12 policemen were, at the weekend, killed in two separate attacks on police formations in Akwa Ibom and Rivers states.  The attacks, which happened on Friday night and Saturday, also saw the wife of one of the policemen killed, with some assault rifles were carted away by the attackers who also just burnt police patrol vehicles.  The latest casualty figures bring to 53, the numbe...

Punch Newspapers Sections Dennis Naku, Port Harcourt Dennis Naku, Port Harcourt Published 3 April 2021 The Nigeria Police Force and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps have jointly deployed a total of 9, 750 operatives in Rivers State to ensure there are no security breaches during the Easter celebrations. Spokesman for the State Police Command, Nnamdi Omoni, while speaking with Saturday PUNCH said about 7,000 police officers were drafted to various part of the state. “We deployed abo...

Share A lecturer with the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), Dr Joe Ayuwo, who was kidnapped on February 21, 2021 has been rescued by men of the Rivers State Command of the Nigerian police. The don was kidnapped on the same day as his traditional ruler, King Aaron Ikuru, King of Ikuru Town and Chairman Andoni Council of Traditional Rulers in Andoni local government. He is of the Department of Linguistics and Communication Studies of the University of Port Harcourt, Choba Rivers State and wa...

Rivers VGN Appeals To Wike For Support × Rivers VGN Appeals To Wike For Support Hits: 68 The Rivers State Command of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN), has passionately appealed to the Executive Governor of the State, Chief Nyesom Wike to come to the aid of the command in order to enhance its operations and performance. The command has also thanked the Governor for being supportive of other security agencies in the state. The Rivers State Command of the Vigilante Group of Nigeri...

The Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. General Buba Marwa (Retd), has disclosed that 90% of criminalities in Nigeria are linked to drug abuse and as such the war against the menace of illicit drug trafficking, peddling and abuse is a fight to finish with him in the saddle of the lead agency.

Punch Newspapers Sections Sampson Itode, Port Harcourt A man, who filed a complaint of attempted murder against a vigilante group, the Onelga Security Peace and Advisory Council, in the Rumuolumeni community, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, has accused the police of compromise and alleged that the case was transferred to the Zone 16, Bayelsa State, to pervert the cause of justice. The victim, Clifford Woko, was in January allegedly beaten to a pulp by personnel of the security...

Akinwale Aboluwade Men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Anti Vandals Squad, Oyo State Command, said on Tuesday that they arrested two trucks belonging to some vandals who are currently at large. Mr Iskilu Akinsanya, state Commandant of NSCDC, while giving the hint in Ibadan, said that in one of the cases, a white DAF tanker was intercepted in the early hours of Monday around Oloje, near Dedun Village, Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State. In an earlier incident on Satur...

Police Officer Arrested While Robbing Residents In Port Harcourt A police identity card was found on Odege with three different handsets belonging to their victims and one locally made Bareta pistol. by SaharaReporters, New York Jan 18, 2021 A Police Sergeant, Ibrahim Odege, attached to the Operations Department of the Rivers Police Command has been arrested alongside one Sampson Inomoghe at the scene of a crime at Elekahia Housing Estate in Portharcourt, Rivers State. Security guards and the e...

End SARS: Bayelsa Police appears before Judicial Panel over 10 allegations of brutality, extra-judicial killings Published The legal team of the Bayelsa Police Command on Wednesday made their first appearance before the State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on cases of alleged brutality and extra-judicial killings by personnel in some parts of the state. The military who is also parties to some of the petitions before the Panel did not show up. Out of the 14 cases for mention at the resumed sitting o...