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But the victims reportedly got missing, prompting the husband of the woman to lodge a complaint at Ado Odo Divisional Police Headquarters. The spokesperson of the State Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, on Wednesday, said the case was transferred to the anti-kidnapping unit of the state Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department with an order to unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of the two. He said the team’s intelligence and technical based investigation paid off with the arrest ...

Share Katsina-Alla, headquarters of Sankera axis where the late terrorist leader, Terwase Akwaza, also known as Gana, reigned was, on Thursday, thrown into pandemonium with the killing of three policemen and two others by gunmen. The unknown gunmen were said to have invaded the residence of Katsina-Alla local government chairman, Alfred Atera where they killed three policemen and two other people. Though, the axis had before the latest incidence witnessed relative peace since the military kille...

  Five suspects have been arrested in Ogun State for allegedly killing a housewife and a motorcycle rider in the state. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday, blamed the disappearance of the victims in the Ado Odo Local Government Area of the state on the suspects. The victims, a 45-year-old housewife and fish seller, Memunat Akinde, and a motorcyclist, Ibikunle Ajose, were said to be missing since October 1. A...

File photo of a Police patrol van. Five suspects have been arrested in Ogun State for allegedly killing a housewife and a motorcycle rider in the state. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday, blamed the disappearance of the victims in the Ado Odo Local Government Area of the state on the suspects. The victims, a 45-year-old housewife and fish seller, Memunat Akinde, and a motorcyclist, Ibikunle Ajose, were said ...

A source within the security, who confirmed the incident, said details of Okungbowa’s abduction is sketchy. “But, it happened outside Benin. We are trying to get across to them,” the source said. Efforts to get confirmation from the State Commissioner of police, Mr. Babatunde Kokumo, and the Police Public Relations Officer in the State Command, Mr. Chidi Nwabuzor, were not successful as calls to them were not answered. Okungbowa was appointed head of service by Governor Godwin Obaseki in ...

•Traditional ruler of Ankpa abducted John Shiklam in Kaduna, Francis Sardauna in Katsina and Ibrahim Oyewale in Lokoja Gunmen on Thursday night attacked the convoy of the Emir of Kaura Namoda in Zamfara State, Alhaji Sanusi Muhammad, killing eight people. In Kaduna State, seven people were killed by gunmen in Gora Gan community, Zangon-Kataf Local Government area of the state, while security operatives in Kogi State have declared a manhunt for the kidnappers of the traditional ruler of Ank...

Ibrahim Oyewale in Lokoja Kogi State Commissioner of Police, CP Ayuba Ede has disclosed that the operatives of State Command had been trailing the suspected kidnappers who abducted the traditional ruler of Ankpa , the Ejeh of Ankpa Shuaibu Usman who was kidnapped in the early hours of yesterday. Ede who disclosed this while confirming the report to journalists yesterday , said that the traditional ruler was abducted by unknown persons when he went to mosque for Shubhi morning prayers. The Commi...

Content warning: This story contains graphic details of abuse that some readers may find disturbing. Names marked with asterisks have been changed to protect the identity of the child victims. One Friday in September Adara* finally went to the police station in Kaduna State, northern Nigeria, to report the rape of her 12-year-old son. The boy had been suffering from repeated night terrors, she told officers. Upon examining him some months back, it had taken her a moment to digest what she had s...

Vanguard News Police crackdown on criminal gangs in Akwa Ibom On …arrest 40 cultists, recover weapons Barely 24 hours after Governor Udom Emmanuel rejigged the security apparatus of Akwa Ibom state to tackle growing violent crimes and insecurity few days to Christmas, the State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has begun cracking down on criminal gangs within Uyo Metropolis. The governor, on Thursday, donated 30 patrol trucks to security agencies in the State and reactivated the popular Jo...

A retired chief superintendent of police (CSP), Carol Afegbai, has sued the Edo State Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses for issuing a warrant of arrest against her after she failed to appear before it. The panel had summoned Mrs Afegbai over her alleged complicity in the murder of Ibrahim Momodu, a student of the University of Benin, in 2015. She was the divisional police officer of Ogida police station in Benin City when Mr Momodu, a 500-level student of the Facu...