The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one of its officers who allegedly raped a 17-year-ol girl at the Area H Command in Ogudu are of the state. According to punch, the girl had sought help from the officer to recover her stolen phone. The suspect, simply identified …
Read More »You have no reason to detain him – Obi asks Tinubu to free IPOB leader Kanu
Obi made the call while speaking to journalists in Onitsha, Anambra State, on Saturday, June 29, 2024. Obi condemned the continuous detention of Kanu, noting that the courts of the land have set him free. For this reason, he said President Tinubu has no reason to continue to keep the …
Read More »Arrest evasion: Police detain former gov, Yahaya Bello?s female ADC
The aide-de-camp (ADC) to former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, has been arrested and detained by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). The Female police officer and others were arrested days after the former governor evaded arrest by EFCC operatives on Wednesday, April 17. The officers were taken into …
Read More »Court grants DSS' request to detain suspected ISIS member for 60 days
The Department of State Services’ request to further detain a Nigerian identified as Emmanuel Osase, accused of being a member of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), for another 60 days has been granted by a federal high court sitting in Abuja. The approval was granted by …
Read More »Kano Police detain member-elect, Aliyu Madaki, for brandishing gun during rally
The Kano Police Command has detained a member-elect representing Dala Federal Constituency of Kano State on the platform of New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Aliyu Madaki. Madaki honoured a police invitation on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, after his viral picture brandishing a pump action gun during a homecoming rally of the presidential …
Read More »Police detain House on the Rock pastor for preaching with AK-47, seek dismissal of police officer who gave him the rifle
The Intelligence Response Team, Force Intelligence Bureau, Garki, Abuja has detained the presiding pastor of House on the Rock in Abuja, Pastor Uche Aigbe, for carrying an AK-47 while preaching in the church on Sunday, February 12. Aigbe caused a stir in the church on Sunday when he came …
Read More »Tunisian police detain prominent politicians, businessman
Eltaief, once a confidant of former President Ben Ali, and two key political activists were detained. Tunisian police have arrested influential businessman Kamel Eltaief, once a confidant of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, as well as two key political activists, lawyers say. Eltaief, 68, was arrested from his …
Read More »German Police Detain Iranian on Suspicion of Planning Chemical Attack
The authorities in Germany said early Sunday that they had taken into custody a 32-year-old Iranian citizen suspected of procuring cyanide and ricin in an effort “to commit an Islamist-motivated attack.” In a brief statement released by the police in Münster, Germany, the authorities said that investigators had searched the …
Read More »UK Border Force strike: armed forces cannot detain people, emails reveal
Soldiers and sailors covering for striking Border Force staff at passport control do not have the power to detain people they suspect of criminal activity, leaked documents show. Emails reveal that people suspected of crimes such as carrying a false passport, drug smuggling, people trafficking and victims of modern slavery …
Read More »Bandits release Kaduna man after over two months in captivity, detain his wife
One Hussaini Bala Mohammed, who was abducted alongside his wife over two months ago in Kaduna State, has regained freedom. Bala Mohammed and his wife, Ummiehassan were kidnapped from their residence on Sunday, March 27, 2022. Confirming the development on Sunday, June 12, Engr Faeesal Ibraheem, said his brother-in-law was …
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