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Daily Post Nigeria Published The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Ibeh George Udoka for driving away his principal’s car to Imo State for sale. Muyiwa Adejobi, Public Relations Officer, in a statement on Thursday said on May 4, one Mrs Akinola Ibironke reported the matter to the Idimu Police Division. She had asked Udoka to take the Toyota Corola, Reg No. ABC 801 FU, to her mechanic for repairs on May 3. The suspect was not seen since then and his phone number remained switched off. The Police personnel at Idimu relayed repeated radio messages to all police formations across the ...

The state  Commissioner of Police, Phillip Aliyu Ogbadu, disclosed this in a statement signed by the command’s spokesman, SP Kongtons Bello, and made available to journalists in Benin yesterday. The commissioner also disclosed that traffic personnel have been deployed across the state to ensure free flow of traffic especially in Benin City. According to him, the command has put in place adequate security measures in ensuring the security of lives and property of our Muslims and the general public during and after the celebration. Ogbadu said the command will collaborate with other sister s...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Police officers from Edo State Command early hours of Monday stopped a peaceful rally organised by the Godsent foundation in Benin city. Participants of the rally tagged ‘our mama must chop rally’ were held up in front of the Oba’s palace while trying to submit a letter to the Benin monarch on the need for women to have food on their table. Becky Agaga and Barrett Obehi who represented the president of the foundation, Amb. Osarodion Osagie said the peaceful rally was to draw the attention of concerned authorities including the state government on the need to...

NDLEA arrests 100 suspected drug traffickers in Edo The arrests were made in the first quarter of the year, an official says. The Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it has arrested no fewer than 100 suspected drug traffickers with a seizure of 238,168 kilogrammes of illicit drugs. Buba Wakawa, the state commander of the agency, said this in Benin City on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Mr Wakawa said the arrests were made in the first quarter of the year, adding that the figure comprised 68 males and 32 females. Giving the...

UNIBEN bursar escapes abduction as gunmen kill NSCDC officer The Punch Published 7:00 am The Bursar of the University of Benin, Mr Victor Imagbe, on Thursday, escaped being kidnapped by gunmen, who invaded his house at Ogheghe along the Sapele Road, Benin. But an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ugiagbe Alex Osaghae, who was on guard duty at the home of the bursar, was killed by the gunmen, who also made away with his service rifle. A source at the Edo State Police Command confirmed the incident, adding that investigation aimed at nabbing the perpetrato...