The Kano State Police Command has arrested a 15-year-old housewife, Hasana, for poisoning her husband’s food. According to the police, the victim, Sali Abubakar, 33, is in...
Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Adamu, yesterday in Lagos, said that henceforth, the nation’s policemen will start using stun guns for routine patrols because...
One Munabo Tonworio has shot and killed his girlfriend, Victoria Ekalamene for allegedly cheating on him in Oluasiri community of Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa...
The Kogi State Command has rescued three children that were left stranded after suspected kidnappers seized their parents in Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi State...
The Ondo State Police Command has arrested four persons for engaging in kidnapping in the Akoko area of the state in recent times. The Commissioner of...
By Jude Ndukwe…. Barely 4 weeks after the 2019 general elections for which winners are yet to be sworn in and for which dusts in several...
A 45-year-old man, Kabiru Oke and his son. 19-year-old Faruq Oke, have been remanded in Kirikiri Prisons for allegedly molesting and impregnating a teenager who lived...
A 26-year-old man, Ayodele Odebiyi has been paraded by the Ogun State Police Command for raping a 22-year old lady. Described as a serial rapist, Odebiyi...
It was another round of harrowing experience for some communities in Zamfara State on Saturday as armed bandits attacked them, killing several persons. Residents say the...
The Nigeria Police Force has three new Assistant Inspector Generals, AIGs, as the Police Service Commission, PSC, approved the promotion of 8,916 senior police officers to...
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Reverend Ezuma Chizemdere, the founder of Jesus Intervention Household Ministry, Ejigbo, Lagos for sodomy and infecting a 16-year-old...
Two self acclaimed pastors, Chukwuka Stephen and Ejim Stephen have been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly killing their brother-in-law, Peter...
The arrest of four suspected Fulani herdsmen has been confirmed by the Enugu State Police Command over the kidnapping of a Catholic priest, Rev Fr Lazarus...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council has petitioned the Nigerian Police and Department of State Security (DSS) to invite, interrogate and probe leadership of...
A prosecution witness, Aibangbe Maifuwa, has told a Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo that a former Inspector General of Police, Mr. Sunday Ehindero, collected 10...
Three suspected kidnappers terrorising Rivers State have been killed by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Monitoring Unit in Rivers State, led by ACP. Bennett...
The Nigerian Police Force the Nigerian Army, on Friday announced that they have resolved the conflict that ensued between them during the governorship and House of...
An 18-year-old girl, Hadiyat Sikiru, has been allegedly killed by a stray bullet during a crossfire between suspected cultists/kidnappers and Police officers in Adamo community, Ikorodu...
Soldiers of the Nigerian Army, Captain Adams Salami and Corporal Adeosun Adebayo, have recounted their experiences in the hands of suspected policemen during the governorship and...
The Nigeria Police said on Saturday that it would apprehend those who killed a police sergeant on Friday night in Yenogoa, the Bayelsa State capital. The...
An Ikeja Magistrate Court has remanded a 61-year-old man, Rotimi Ariremako, has been remanded in prison custody for allegedly belonging to an armed robbery gang alleged...
Tragedy struck at Ogere-Remo area of Ikene Local Government Area, Ogun State during the governorship and state House of Assembly elections on Saturday. A stray bullet...
The Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Kaduna State, Alhaji Kauguma Abdulahi, has warned residents of the state that there...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the news of the deployment of 11 police commissioners to some select local government areas in Benue ahead...
The Akwa Ibom State Government has alleged that the All Progressives Congress, APC is planning to take over the state during the governorship and state assembly...
The security situation in Kajuru and Birnin Gwari local government areas of Kaduna State has forced the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to stop the deployment...
A clash between loyalists of the All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Kaduna on Wednesday left one person dead while several...
Condemnations have continued to trail the alleged N50,000 bribe that operatives of Enugu State Police Command allegedly demanded from some robbery victims in the state. It...
A 40-year-old lesson teacher, Faruk Adam, has been charged by the Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly assaulting nine of his pupils sexually. Sergeant Peace...
The Enugu State Police Command has confirmed the operation of a joint security control room for the general elections among security agencies operating in the state....
Operatives of the Bayelsa State Police Command have arrested a notorious 31-year-old cult leader identified as Victor Meremunyu alias Y B Lee and five others over...
The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Council Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has provided legal justification for President Muhammadu Buhari’s controversial death threat to ballot box snatchers....
Ahmed Abdulrahaman, Kaduna State police commissioner, says the force cannot verify the casualty figures that Nasir El-Rufai, the governor, released on the killings in Kajuru, Kaduna...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it is only the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) that have a legitimate function during election exercises. The electoral...
As the country goes to the polls in less than 24hours, the Federal government has ordered the closure of all land borders in the country with...
Tough hurdles await election observers and security operatives who have been assigned to monitor the general elections beginning Saturday, so say the Chairman, Independent National Electoral...
Indications emerged over the weekend that reprieve may come the way of 141 policemen, who were dismissed from the force and on account of desertion after...
The Federal Inland Revenue Service has sought the services of the Nigeria Police to go after over 85,000 wealthy businessmen who are perpetual tax evaders. The...
Police said yesterday that they had apprehended six men who stripped a 24-year-old lady and rubbed pepper into her private parts for allegedly stealing a phone....
The office of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, was on Monday reportedly sealed off by men of the Nigerian Police force....
After apparent rejection of court orders, the Nigerian Police has finally let go the senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye. Melaye had been in the custody...
The Nigerian Police Force has ignored an Abuja High Court ruling that ordered the release of Dino Melaye if he meets up his bail conditions. The...
The Police Service Commission may appoint new members of the Police Management Team, including additional Deputy and Assistant Inspectors-General of Police this week. SUNDAY PUNCH learnt...
Ibrahim Idris, former inspector-general of police, has praised the conduct of the police under his leadership in different elections. Idris retired Tuesday after clocking the mandatory...
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mohammed Adamu as the new Inspector General of Police (IGP). He was appointed on Tuesday afternoon after outgoing IGP, Ibrahim Idris,...
Contrary to the much publisized crime of shooting one of its officers, the Nigeria Police Force has filed a one count charge against the Kogi West...
The police has said, contrary to speculations, it moved Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi West, to a different hospital out of care. Melaye was earlier...
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his dissatisfaction with the state and performance of the Nigeria police. President Buhari said it is unfortunate that the military has...
President Muhammadu Buhari and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, met behind closed doors on Friday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja one day after his...
Senator Dino Melaye Friday slumped as he entered the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARs) headquarters in Abuja. Dino had surrendered to the police after an eight-day siege...
