Tag Archives: Police

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 …

Men of the Plateau state Police Command have foiled the attempted kidnap of the Speaker Plateau State House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Yakubu Sanda.   A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Alfred Alabo, says on January 6, at about 11.20pm while the Speaker arrived his …

The Bauchi State Police Command has arrested a notorious car snatcher, Mohammed Bashir.    Spokesperson for the command, SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, in a statement on Thursday January 5, said Bashir, 32, of Mariri Area of Kano state, was arrested by operatives attached to ‘B’ Divisional Police headquarters.   According …

A Nigerian lawyer, Akomas Victoria, has shared the story of her experience with police officers at the Maroko Police station in Lago state where she went to report a case of robbery.   In a series of tweets, Victoria said she was robbed by ”one-chance bus” criminals on January 5, …

The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned a 21-year-old man, Isaac Tony, before the Ogba Magistrates’ Court, Ogba, for alleged possession of 32 SIM cards suspected to have been used for Internet fraud.   The defendant was arrested on December 15, 2022, on Apakan Lane, in the Oshodi area of …

A Twitter user, Elewade Banks, has claimed that some Nigerian men were arrested for “urinating by a bush in Accra, Ghana.”   “On a road trip in Accra, some Nigerian men came down to take a piss by a bush and got arrested by the Ghanaian police.” she tweeted on …

Men of the Adamawa state police command have apprehended two men identified as Obed Filibus, 32, and Sani Amos, 28, for allegedly killing a woman and one other person accused of bewitching/poisoning their elder brother, Ahmadu Filibus in Batum community, Dumne Development Area, Song Local Government Area on December 12, 2022.   According …

Two robbery suspects have been gunned down in Akwanga Local Government Area of Nasarawa State while exchanging gunfire with police operatives.    The incident which occurred Thursday morning, January 4, on Akwanga-Nunku highway also reportedly claimed the life of a police officer, Insp. Yusuf Jafaru.    The corpse of the …

The spokesperson of the Lagos state police command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, has described as ”heartbreaking” a tweet shared by a Nigerian man expressing his utter hate for men of the Nigeria Police Force.   It all started when Hundeyin reacted to a tweet about a Police officer who got injured by …

A Kenyan man, Richard Onyango, who assisted his wife to procure a botched abortion leading to her death, is facing murder charges, alongside two suspected quack doctors who conducted the failed operation.   The Directorate of Criminal Investigations, DCI, in a statement on Wednesday, January 4, said the trio was …