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Police Rescue Abducted ACP, Arrest Two Suspects

Police Rescue Abducted ACP, Arrest Two Suspects

October 21, 2019 2:16 am
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF)  on Sunday’s night announced that it has rescued abducted an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Musa Rabo who was kidnapped over the weekend. 
According to the post on  Twitter handle of the force @Police NG at 11:05 pm on Sunday night, Rabo was rescued on unhurt.

The post read:” Musa Rabo abducted over the weekend was today 20th October 2019 rescued unhurt”. The officer was successfully rescued this evening by a combined team of Police operatives from Kaduna, Niger and Zone 7 Command Headquarters Abuja, backed-up by members of the elite Special Forces of the
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Oyo State: Police Arrest, Detain NANS Leader, Olajuwon

Oyo State: Police Arrest, Detain NANS Leader, Olajuwon

October 15, 2019 4:03 am

Chairman of Oyo State National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Asubiojo Olajuwon, has been detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Iyaganku, Ibadan.

Olajuwon was said to have been arrested inside the premises of Federal Co-operative College, Eleiyele, at the weekend while holding a meeting with other executive members of the association.

One of his aides, who spoke with The Guardian, alleged that some people, who claimed to be close to Governor Seyi Makinde, led police to the school where he was holding the meeting and was subsequently arrested.

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Lagos State Assembly Threatens To Arrest Ambode, Others

Lagos State Assembly Threatens To Arrest Ambode, Others

October 11, 2019 4:00 pm

The Lagos State House of Assembly yesterday threatened to issue a warrant of arrest on former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and four others who served under him as commissioners.

This decision followed two preliminary reports presented by two different ad-hoc committees set up by the House to investigate the 820 buses purchased by Ambode and to appraise the 2019 mid-year budget.

Chairman of the nine-man ad-hoc committee set up to probe the 820 buses purchased by the former governor, Fatai Mojeed, while presenting the preliminary report, said it was discovered that due process was not followed in the purchase of the …

Kanu orders IPOB to arrest Jubril, Buhari's impostor

Kanu orders IPOB to arrest Jubril, Buhari’s impostor

August 24, 2019 12:38 am

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has mandated a branch of his organisation in Japan to ascertain that the alleged impostor, Jubril Al-Sudani who is believed to be President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria, “is arrested and handed over to the authorities when he sets foot on Japanese soil.”

The purported president is scheduled to be in Japan on Sunday according to an earlier report by Daily Post, Nigeria.

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Kanu who who informed the members of organisation on Friday, August 23, via his verified …

Nigeria sharia police arrest four over ‘Facebook’ marriage

Nigeria sharia police arrest four over ‘Facebook’ marriage

July 10, 2019 9:26 am
Four men have been arrested in the northern Nigerian city of Kano for allegedly carrying out a false marriage on Facebook, which the Islamic enforcement agency said had mocked Islam.Kano is among 12 northern Nigeria states where Sharia law operates and the Hisbah enforcement agency said Wednesday the wedding was perceived to have made a mockery of the institute of marriage.

“We arrested four men for organising a mock wedding on Facebook which has caused public outrage,” Hisbah’s chief Abba Sufi told AFP.

“We arrested them for making a mockery of the sanctity of the institution of marriage,” he said.

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Police arrest FRSC boss for allegedly killing colleague

Police arrest FRSC boss for allegedly killing colleague

June 9, 2019 12:15 am
Unit Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Onitsha, Anambra State, Paulinus Akpotobo, and another senior officer have been arrested by the Onitsha Police Area Command for allegedly strangling a colleague, Emeka Ojei, to death.

The incident reportedly took place on Thursday evening.Sources close to FRSC said trouble started when the deceased threatened to write a petition of corrupt practice against one of the officers to FRSC zonal headquarters in Benin City, Edo State, an action that did not go down well with the affected officer.

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The Guardian gathered

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Police arrest FRSC boss for allegedly killing colleague

Police arrest 3 traffic robbers in Lagos

June 6, 2019 12:38 am

The police in Lagos said it arrested three suspected traffic robbers in two separate operations around Ayobo/Ipaja areas of the state, less than 24 hours to Sallah holidays.

Spokesman for the command, DSP Bala Elkana, confirmed the arrests in a statement on Wednesday, saying the suspects usually pretend to be commercial motorcyclists before attacking their victims.

Elkana said that on June 3, at about 9:05 p.m., surveillance patrol team from Ipaja Police Station arrested one Shefiu Aliu around NEPA Ayobo-Ipaja Road, while attempting to rob two sisters – Grace and Deborah Williams.

“The suspect posed as a commercial motorcyclist, popularly …

NFVCB officials now SPY Policemen to fight piracy

Police arrest Pastor for employment scam

May 31, 2019 10:28 am

An Abuja- based pastor has been arrested for alleged involvement in employment scam.

The Pastor of Spirit Embassy church located in Gwagwalada area of Abuja, who was working with one Alhaji, claimed they had connection and could get interested job seekers employment into the Nigeria Immigration Service.

25-year-old Egbunu Vincent Onuche said he collected between N150, 000 to N300, 000 from 16 people who indicated interest in the employment.

The interested people, according to him, were church members, friends and family members.

He, however, claimed the Alhaji made over N2million from the interested job seekers, adding the Alhaji gave him
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French police arrest 2 suspect over bomb explosion

French police arrest 2 suspect over bomb explosion

May 27, 2019 9:09 am

French police have arrested two suspects following a blast in the city of Lyon that wounded 13 people last week, French authorities said on Monday.

Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced the first arrest on Twitter, a development later confirmed by Paris prosecutors, who handle all terrorism-related cases.

The prosecutors’ office later said a second suspect was arrested and detained.

Lyon mayor Gerard Collomb, a former interior minister, said one of the suspects is an IT student who was arrested as he stepped out of a bus.

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“It’s a relief for …

Ruggedman apologises for Naira Marley’s arrest

Ruggedman apologises for Naira Marley’s arrest

May 16, 2019 1:28 am

Since the news of the arrest of singer, Naira Marley by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on suspicion of connection to internet fraud better known as yahoo yahoo, many Nigerian youths have been laying blame on the doorstep of veteran singer, Rugggedman.

Prior to Naira Marley’s arrest, Ruggedman who is a police ambassador had been in an online debate with Naira Marley about the rightness or wrongness of cybercrime. Riuggedman had disagreed with Naira Marley’s view that yahoo yahoo is not a crime and yahoo boys should be glorified and celebrated rather than arrested and prosecuted.

Following Naira Marley’s …

Arrest of sex workers criminalisation of poverty – NHRC

Arrest of sex workers, criminalisation of poverty – NHRC

May 15, 2019 9:21 pm

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has decried the recent arrest of sex workers and closure of brothels in Umuahia, the Abia capital, on the orders of the state government.

Ms Uche Nwokocha, the Coordinator of NHRC in Abia, described the action as as “the criminalisation of poverty” by the government and its agencies.

Nwokocha said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Umuahia on Wednesday.

NAN reports that the state government had ordered the immediate shutdown of some brothels in the state capital, alleging that they had become hideouts for crminials.

It also directed …

Ex-president Alan Garcia commits suicide over arrest

April 17, 2019 9:48 pm

Peru’s former president Alan Garcia died in hospital on Wednesday after shooting himself in the head at his home as police were about to arrest him in a sprawling corruption case. He was 69.

The health ministry said Garcia died at 10:05 am (1505 GMT) of “a massive cerebral hemorrhage from a gunshot wound and cardiorespiratory arrest.”

Garcia was resuscitated three times after suffering heart attacks while undergoing emergency surgery, before finally succumbing, Peru’s Health Minister Zulema Tomas said.

The Casimiro Ulloa Emergency Hospital in Lima earlier confirmed he had suffered “a bullet wound to his head.”

“This morning there …

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