The Kano State Police Command has arrested a suspected kidnapper, Abubakar Musa, and rescued a 2-year-old victim. The spokesperson of the command, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, January 4, 2025, said the suspect abducted the minor and demanded N50m ransom for his release. According to the PPRO, the suspect was charged …
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The FCT Police Command has rescued a day-old baby abandoned along a bush path near Crush Rock, behind an uncompleted Red Bricks Market, Mpape. According to a statement by the command’s spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, on January 3, 2025, at about 10:00am, police operatives from Mpape Division’s Juvenile and Women Care Section (JWC) responded to a distress call and …
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The Kebbi State Police Command has confirmed the de@th of two police officers during a gun battle with Lakurawa bandits who attacked Alhaji Lawal Block Farm and nearby Fulani settlements in Natsini village, along the Argungu-Kangiwa road. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Nafiu Abubakar, disclosed this in a statement, noting that the assailants rustled an unspecified number of cows …
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The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Olukayode Egbetokun, on Friday, January 3, vowed that any assault on police officers will receive a calculated and well-deserved response . Egbetokun who was in Enugu police headquarters on a one-day official visit, said that the police would not tolerate any form of assault or killing of police personnel any longer. “We’ll …
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The Borno State Police Command has averted an explosion and recovered three projectile explosives hidden inside a sack in the Dala Kafanti area of Maiduguri. Spokesperson of the command, ASP Nahum Kenneth Daso, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, January 2, said a resident of the community alerted the police about the presence of a suspicious sack within …
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Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a suspected burglar named David Adediji for breaking into a home and stealing valuables worth over N200,000 in the Okorowepo, Idiroko area of the state. The suspect, aged 27, allegedly entered the home of a female resident through the window, damaging the iron security bars, and struck her on the …
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Three police officers will face trial in Paris for the involuntary homicide of Cedric Chouviat, a man who repeatedly said “I’m suffocating” during his arrest in January 2020, a source close to the case confirmed to AFP on Friday. At least two of the officers have already lodged appeals against the decision to prosecute. The de@th of 42-year-old Chouviat, …
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The Edo State Police Command has arrested a 55-year-old man, Osaro Ahuwa for burning down the house of his estranged wife, Uyi Tina. LIB reported that the incident occurred on New Year’s Day a day after Tina, an Italy-based businesswoman returned to Nigeria. According to an eyewitness, Osaro went to Tina’s house but she refused to …
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The Police Command in Rivers has confirmed the arrest of a couple for allegedly r@ping and be@ting a 13-year-old girl in their residence in Port Harcourt. The spokesperson of the command, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, disclosed this at a news conference in Port Harcourt on Thursday,January 2. The wife was said to have strped the teenager and inserted pepper …
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The Kano State Police Command has dismantled a female-led syndicate of thieves and arrested five suspects. The spokesperson of the command, SP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, who disclosed this in a statement on Thursday, January 2, 2024, said the gang is led by Shamsiyya Adamu, a 19-year-old resident of Brigade Quarters Kano. According to the PPRO, Shamsiyya, …
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