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The Enugu State Police has reacted to claims made by a lawyer that its officers asked the distraught father of a missing University of Nigeria Nsukka undergraduate, Flourish Nkwachi Uzodimma to pay N25,000 for tracking.  A Nigerian lawyer, Barr. Ege Obetta made the claim on social media on Friday, December 27. Reacting to the allegation, the spokesperson of the state …

The Ogun State Police Command has reacted to reports alleging that its officers in the Sango police division demanded N40,000 from a complainant to investigate a suspected kidnapping case.   An X-user had cried out over the abduction of a 7-year-old girl identified as Mercy Akande, allegedly by a customer at her mum’s shop in Sango Ota where she runs …

Men of the Bayelsa State Police Command have arrested a man identified as Biobarakumo Gamade, for allegedly staging his abduction and demanding N10m from his brother.     The suspect was arrested alongside his accomplice, identified as Frank Thompson, on Tuesday, November 5th, after receiving N2m ransom. Parading the suspect at the state police command headquarters, on Wednesday, November 6, …

The 30-year-old man who climbed a 33 kv high tension electricity pole in Mayo-Belwa, Adamawa, and said he won’t come down until President Bola Ahmed Tinubu resigns has been admitted to the Yola Psychiatric Hospital for mental examination.   Recall that last Friday morning, September 27, Abdullahi Mohammed, from Taraba State, climbed the high-tension electricity pole along the Yola-Jalingo highway, …