A report by the United States Department of State has listed twelve states in Nigeria that are yet to ban the torture of suspects, even after...
The Kano State police command has arrested a 40-year old father, identified as Awaisu Auwalu, for allegedly beating his 19-year-old son, Auwalu Awaisu, to death. The...
The Enugu State Police Command has appealed to the general public to come forward with useful information that would lead to the arrest and prosecution of...
Police operatives in Jigawa State have arrested eight persons over alleged theft of a car and three motorcycles in the state. The spokesman of the state...
Hundreds of Nigerians in New Delhi, India, on Sunday night protested the killing of a 43-year-old Leonard Lyeanyi by police in the Asian nation. Lyeanyi died...
Police operatives on Sunday foiled a kidnap attempt and rescued five victims in Kaduna State. The spokesman of the state police command, Muhammad Jalige, disclosed this...
Police on Sunday confirmed the arrest of 16 suspects over alleged complicity in series of violent attacks on security operatives and facilities across the country. The...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has deployed a special team to Makurdi, Benue State, followed an attack on Governor Samuel Ortom by gunmen. The Force...
Police on Friday arraigned a priest, Abdurasak Al-Sulati, popularly called Kewulere, at the Ilorin Magistrates Court, Kwara State for allegedly killing one Sumo Usman for money...
Police operatives in Kwara State have rescued three farm managers abducted by hoodlums in the state last Sunday. The victims, Dr. Julius Owoeye, Akeem Ajadi, and...
The Kano State Commissioner of Police, lSama’ila Shu’aibu-Dikko has commended two officers of the command, Insp. Garba Saleh-Rabo and Jamilu Alkassim for rejecting a N1 million...
Police operatives in Lagos have arrested a man who allegedly stole a motorcycle from a police post in Mushin during last year’s #EndSARS protests in the...
A petitioner, Mr. Kolawole Owoade, on Thursday told the Oyo State judicial panel of inquiry how operatives of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) shot dead...
The House of Representatives on Thursday held a public hearing on the Police Service Commission Act (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill 2020 and the National Institute for...
The Lagos State Police Command on Thursday arraigned a 67-year-old cleric, Abdul-Fatai Gbadamosi, before a Magistrates’ Court sitting in Lagos, for allegedly destroying the Aje shrine...
No fewer than 19 suspects have been arrested by the Police Command in Niger State, for allegedly vandalising rail tracks in Katcha and Bosso Local Government...
The Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday, March 25, adjourned a suit filed by the Ekiti State governemnt against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP)...
The Delta State Police Command has arrested two suspected cultists for allegedly killing a suspected member of a rival cult group, identified as Ebeni Jelekun. In...
The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has mocked the Chief of Army Staff (CoAS), Lt.-Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, and the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim...
The Cross River State Police Command has threatened to take ruthless actions against the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), if they embark on a planned protest over...
Police operatives in Lagos have arrested a 40-year-old woman, Chinyere Okechukwu, for allegedly stealing and selling a five-month-old baby for N900, 000 to a childless couple...
Ortom: Three persons in police detention over attempted assassination on Benue Gov Three persons have been arrested by police in Benue State over last weekend’s attack...
The Ekiti State police command on Tuesday confirmed the death of the female police officer shot during last weekend’s by-election in the state. The command’s spokesman,...
Police operatives in Kano have arrested a suspected supplier of motorcycles to bandits operating in Zamfara State. The spokesman of the state police command, Abdullahi Kiwaya,...
Police operatives in Lagos have arrested a 28-year-old woman, Justina Eje, for allegedly stabbing her husband to death in the Ikorodu area of the state. The...
Police operatives in Lagos have arrested 132 persons for alleged impersonation, murder and cultism in the state. The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, who...
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Anita Harrison for allegedly mistreating the body of an accident victim, Nofiat Idowu. According to the police, Harrison...
Police on Monday arraigned a 47-year-old mechanic, Bamidele Michael, at the Upper Zuba Area Court, Abuja, for alleged criminal breach of trust and cheating. Michael was...
Police operatives in Ekiti State have arrested three suspects in connection with the violence that marred last Saturday’s House of Assembly by-election in the state. The...
Police operatives in Ogun State have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of a woman, Modupeola Folorunso, and her four-year-old son for ritual purpose...
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has directed the state Commissioner of Police, Babatunde Mobayo, to apprehend the perpetrators of violence in Saturday’s bye-election in Ekiti East...
Gunmen, on Sunday, again attacked a police station in Mgbakwu in the Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State, bringing to four the number of...
Gunmen on Saturday evening razed the Isiala Mbano Divisional Police Headquarters in Imo State. The hoodlums also freed suspects and carted away arms from the divisional...
Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State, has ordered an investigation into circumstances surrounding the death of a youth on Thursday, in Ovom community, Yenagoa Local Government...
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested an alleged notorious serial killer and suspected member of the Eiye confraternity, Sulaiman Ganiyu, who was said to have...
Police operatives in Imo State have arrested three suspected kidnappers of the Auxiliary Bishop of Owerri Archdiocese, Bishop Moses Chikwe. The spokesman of the state police...
The Lagos State Police Command on Wednesday confirmed the arrest of 15 suspected cultists in the Ikosi/Ketu area of the state. The command’s spokesman, Olumuyiwa Adejobi,...
Rival cult groups have clashed in a territorial dispute at the Ikosi-Ketu area of Lagos. Eyewitnesses accounts reported that the chaos began on Tuesday night, March...
A final year student at the University of Nigeria, Chisom Pascal Ugwunyi has spent one year and still counting in the Nsukka prison in Enugu state...
Police operatives have arrested 50 suspected armed robbers, kidnappers, and other criminals across the country. The Force Spokesman, Frank Mbah, who disclosed this in a statement...
Police operatives in Ogun State have arrested a lecturer at the Covenant University, Ota, Dr. Stephen Ukenna, for allegedly defiling an undergraduate student of the institution....
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to deploy police officers on non-essential duties to protect schools from armed bandits in the...
The Anambra State Police Command, said on Tuesday that it had rescued four pregnant girls from a baby factory in the state. This was made known...
The Zamfara State Police Command has redeployed the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Kaura-Namoda area of the state for allegedly fraternising and conniving with bandits terrorising...
Police operatives in Lagos have arrested a 23-year-old ex-convict, Taiwo Sunmonu, for alleged armed robbery in the state. The command’s spokesman, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who disclosed this...
Police operatives on Sunday killed two suspected kidnappers in Abuja. The Spokesperson of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, Maryam Yusuf, who disclosed this in...
The Benue State police command on Sunday confirmed the arrest of one suspect in connection with the killing of Mrs. Eunice Aghanya, wife of a retired...
Two policemen died in a motor accident at Eiyekorin, along the Ilorin-Ogbomoso expressway on Thursday. The spokesman of the Kwara State police command, Ajayi Okasanmi, disclosed...
Families of four police officers who died in a road accident while returning from a peace keeping mission have received N1 million each from the Ebonyi...
Police operatives in Abia State have arrested two kidnap suspects, Ikechi Monday and Onyekachi Orji in the state. The suspects abducted a 70-year-old woman, Mrs. Patricia...
