The 81 Division of the Nigerian Army has commenced investigation into the incident that led to the k!lling of a police officer, Inspector Saka Ganiyu, following an altercation with soldiers in Lagos State. LIB reported that some soldiers attached to the Ojo Cantonment Barracks attacked Ganiyu after he accosted their colleague for driving against the traffic around Volks …
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The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has uncovered a WhatsApp group in Harare named “Private Lounge,” which is allegedly being used to promote gay relationships, with over 1,000 members involved. The discovery came after the arrest of a 25-year-old man from Highfield and a teenage boy, suspected of being involved in a same-sex relationship. The man, who works at a …
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The Ogun State Police Command have arrested two brothers, Femi Fagbohun and Kayode Fagbohun, for kidnapping, robbing, and r@ping a 17-year-old girl, Ajiboye Aminat, a resident of Abeokuta. The victim stated that on June 3, 2024, she had booked an online ride in a Toyota Camry with registration number EKP 352 AE, driven by Femi, from Lekki in …
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The High Court of South Africa, Northern Cape Division, sitting in Upington, adjourned the trial of a 35-year-old Nigerian national, Emmanuel Chidi Okafor, who allegedly stabbed a South African police officer to d@ath during an argument. The spokesperson of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Northern Cape Division, Mojalefa Senokoatsane, in a statement on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, said …
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The Katsina State Police Command has arrested a 24-year-old man, Usman Mohammed Iyal, for r@ping and throwing a 16-year-old girl into a well in Katsina Local Government Area of the state. The spokesperson of the command, ASP Abubakar Aliyu, paraded Usman alongside other suspected criminals on Tuesday, October 8, 2024. said he was nabbed on 17 September in the …
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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a notorious cultist, Sowunmi Rahmon, 25, in Abeokuta. The spokesperson of the command, SP Omolola Odutola, who disclosed this via her X handle on Tuesday, October 9, said the suspect has been terrorizing Ijemo Agbadu Abeokuta and its environs. “8th Oct, 2024. One Sowunmi Rahmon aged 25, a notorious cultist terrorizing …
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Two suspects who are believed to have been part of a heavily armed gang of assassins who ambushed and killed seven members of the Khambule family in Highflats in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa were k!lled in a gun battle with police on Tuesday, October 8. According to the South Africa Police Service (SAPS), provincial spokesperson Colonel Robert Netshiunda, police followed …
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The Katsina State Police Command has thwarted three separate kidnapping attempts by suspected armed bandits in Danmusa and Faskari local government areas, rescuing eight victims. The spokesperson of the command, ASP Abubakar Sadiq, disclosed this in a statement on Monday, October 7, 2024. “At about 11 am, armed bandits intercepted two women on the outskirts of Matarau village …
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President Bola Tinubu has ordered the Nigeria Police Force to protect local government secretariats in Rivers State. This directive comes after rampaging hoodlums aggrieved with the outcome of Saturday Local government elections in the state burnt down some council secretariats. Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga made this known in a statement released on Monday, October 7. “In response …
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The police officers who arrested a black pastor while he watered his neighbour’s flowers can be sued, a federal appeals court has ruled, reversing a lower court judge’s decision which had dismissed the pastor’s lawsuit. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the three officers who arrested Michael Jennings in Childersburg, Alabama, …
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