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Punch Newspapers Sections Adelani Adepegba, Daud Olatunji, Wale Oyewale  and Dennis Naku Published 12:49 am Adelani Adepegba, Daud Olatunji, Wale Oyewale  and Dennis Naku Published 12:49 am Ogun State health workers on Tuesday condemned the high level of insecurity in the state and lamented that all parts of the state were becoming unsafe. The state chapters of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives as well as the Nigerian Medical Association stated this in separate interviews with The PUNCH while explaining their decision to begin a strike at 12 midnight on Tuesday. The ...

Commissioner of Police (CP) FCT, Mr Bala Ciroma The Police Command in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has announced the death of Insp. John Ambi, attached to Operation Puff Adder. He died Tuesday during a gun battle with kidnappers, after four residents of Dankusa were abducted. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the FCT, ASP Mariam YusuF said a joint team of operatives from the Command and Operation Puff Adder responded to a distress call. They engaged the heavily armed hoodlums in a shooting war. Ambi John sustained gun wounds during the operation. Though he was rushe...

Advertisement Confirming the incident in a statement on Tuesday, Mariam Yusuf, FCT police spokesperson, said John died at the hospital while receiving treatment for gunshot wounds he sustained during the operation. She said the operatives had repelled multiple attacks by the suspected kidnappers in the early hours of Tuesday along Dankusa, Angwan-Zegele-Zuba axis in the FCT. Yusuf said the gunmen had escaped into the forest bordering the FCT and Niger state after abducting four persons from Dankusa. Advertisement She added that operatives from the command’s anti-kidnapping squad have made s...

How Abuja Kidnappers Killed Police Team Leader During Attack On Communities It was gathered that Inspector John, who was leading the team in repelling the kidnapper attacks, sustained gunshot injuries and was rushed to hospital for medical attention. by SaharaReporters, New York Apr 14, 2021 A police inspector, John Ambi, who led the team of operatives to arrest kidnappers who were operating in the Tunga Maje and Zuba areas of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, was the first to be shot dead by the kidnappers. SaharaReporters learnt that the kidnappers who were becoming emboldened first tar...

Channels Television   Updated April 13, 2021 A file photo of a police officer displaying the crest of the Nigeria Police Force. PHOTO: Sodiq Adelakun/Channels TV   The FCT Police Command has lost a police Inspector, Ambi John while trying to repel kidnappers along Dankusa, Angwan-Zegele-Zuba axis in Abuja. According to a statement issued on Tuesday by the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Yusuf Mariam, the deceased died while receiving treatment in the hospital. Inspector John, attached to Operation Puff Adder, sustained fatal gunshot injuries during the operation. “Following a distres...