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Osun Police React To Alleged Mob Attack On Tinubu’s Convoy

October 9, 2022 6:07 pm

Recent reports which have been compiled by Africa Daily News, New York has revealed that the Osun State Police Command has finally debunked all the reports which have been making the rounds that presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu’s convoy had been attacked while he had been in the state.

The command who had put out a statement to this effect on Sunday which had also been signed by its spokesperson, SP Yemisi Oplalola had revealed that its attention had been drawn to the news which had been making the rounds and video trending on social …

Bandits Plotting To Invade Kano Using Tricycles – Police

Partial Lockdown As Police Confirm Threat To Attack Lagos

August 17, 2022 8:50 pm

In a new confirmed security threat, the Lagos State Police Command has come out to announce that the state has been placed under a partial lockdown by some of the security agencies in the State after a fresh threat had been unvieled.

Abiodun Alabi who is the Lagos State Commissioner of Police had revealed that surveillance has been raised in due time due to the massive threat of attacks, he had also made the disclosure during the Lagos State Stakeholders’ Forum on Police Accountability (SFPA)’s quarterly meeting.

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The …

Nigeria Police Announce Preparations For 2023 Elections

Police Finally Detains Ameerah For Fake Kidnapping Claims

June 17, 2022 9:57 am

The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has finally found the 17-year-old Safiyanu Ameerah, with Twitter handle @ameerah_sufyan, who had come up with claims on her twitter social media space that she had been abducted alongside 17 others on the 14th of June 2022 in Abuja.

Oduniyi Omotayo who is the command’s Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed the development on Friday. Omotayo, however, debunked reports that Amira and seventeen others were abducted at gunpoint.

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He said: “The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command wishes to categorically debunk the viral news

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Nigeria Police Announce Preparations For 2023 Elections

Lagos Police Debunks Claims Of Badagry Attack By Fulanis

June 9, 2022 10:45 am

In a fresh report gotten by Africa Daily News, New York, the Lagos State Police Command has debunked and downplayed the alleged viral WhatsApp voice-note claiming Fulanis have invaded Badagry in Lagos.

The Command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, issued this in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos.

Reports had earlier emerged that Fulanis have camped in Muhammadu Buhari Estate, Agemowo, Badagry.

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The statement read, “The attention of the Command has been drawn to a viral WhatsApp voice-note claiming that Fulanis have camped in Muhammadu Buhari Estate, Agemowo, Badagry in

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Gunmen Kidnap Jonathan’s Cousin In Bayelsa

Gunmen Kidnap Jonathan’s Cousin In Bayelsa

June 5, 2022 4:38 am

The Bayelsa Police Command has confirmed the abduction of a cousin to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mr Mike Ogiasa by some yet-to-be-identified gunmen.

Ogiasa who is a former cabinet member in the administration of former Bayelsa governor Senator Henry Seriake Dickson reportedly kidnapped from his community, Otuabagi in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Saturday.

According to investigations, Ogiasa who is the convener of the socio-political group named Voice of the South-South has been at the forefront to draft Jonathan into the 2023 Presidency.

Read Also: IG Baba Blasts Police CSP Who Indicted Army In Abduction

Sources who …

Bomb Laden Vechicle Intercepted In Kano State

Bauchi Riots: Police Confirm 6 Houses, 7 Shops Burnt

May 21, 2022 1:09 pm

As things heat up in Bauchi State following the numerous riots that recently broke out in the State, the Bauchi State Police Command has confirmed that about six houses and seven shops have been burnt and destroyed at the Katangan area of Warji Local Government Area of the State following riot over an alleged blasphemy against Islam.

Africa Daily News, New York earlier reported that riot broke out in the area on Friday and continued on Saturday over a message allegedly circulated on social media that a Christian girl in the area engaged in blasphemy while reacting to the killing …

Police Arrests Man For Shooting Newborn Daughter 5 Times

Okada Ban: Kwara Police Expresses Readiness For Immigrants

May 20, 2022 10:40 am

As a result of the recent ban on motorcycle activities in some parts of Lagos, the authorities of the Kwara State police command have expressed their readiness to brace up to mitigate the effects of the likely influx of banned commercial Okada riders from Lagos State to Kwara State.

To further butress this new objective, the Kwara State Police Command has summoned all Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) in the State to an emergency meeting to map out strategies to checkmate the likely consequences of the influx of the displaced Okada riders into the State.

The meeting is at the …

#ENDSARS 2: Policemen Deployed In Abuja To Maintain Order

#ENDSARS 2: Policemen Deployed In Abuja To Maintain Order

December 7, 2020 4:46 am

As Nigeria youths prepare to stage a second wave of #ENDSARS protests across the country tomorrow, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Police Command, has concluded arrangements to ensure there is no breakdown of law and order, report says.

As frantic efforts to reach the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, ASP Yusuf Mariam, proved abortive, a senior officer in the command, who spoke on the condition of anonymity said that adequate men have been mobilized to various areas of the city to contain the situation.

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The office said …

Please Stop Killing Us – Ogun Police Beg Protesters

Please Stop Killing Us – Ogun Police Beg Protesters

October 22, 2020 9:37 am

The Ogun State Police Command has appealed to End SARS protesters in the state to stop killing and maiming policemen.

The police also begged the irate youths to stop attacking police stations all in the name of expressing their grievances.

The Ogun police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, made this plea Wednesday, on behalf of the State Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun.

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According to Oyeyemi, the hitherto peaceful protest embarked upon by youths across Ogun has taken a dangerous and violent dimension, saying ‘some people with ulterior motives are now using the …

Torturing Staff: Court Stops Police From Arresting Gbagi

Torturing Staff: Court Stops Police From Arresting Gbagi

October 1, 2020 4:48 am

Delta State Police Command, Wednesday, declared ex-Minister of State for Education, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi, wanted for failing to honour police invitation, but Justice Taiwo O Taiwo, presiding Judge of a Federal High Court in Abuja, today also, restrained the police from arresting and detaining the industrialist.

Justice Taiwo, upon a motion exparte, by Gbagi (applicant)’s lawyer, Nkem Okoro Esq., barred the Inspector General of Police, Commissioner of Police, Delta state (first and second respondents), whether by themselves, their agents, employees, or by whatever name called, from threatening to arrest and detaining Gbagi (applicant) pending the hearing and determination of his …

Police Nab ‘Boboski,’ Rivers’ Most Wanted Criminal Gang Leader (1)

Police Nab ‘Boboski,’ Rivers’ Most Wanted Criminal Gang Leader

September 12, 2020 1:03 pm

Residents of some parts of Ogoniland jubilated on Saturday morning as news filtered in that officers of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested Honest Diigbara, aka Boboski, a notorious leader of a kidnap and armed robbery gang.

Boboski was alleged to be behind different atrocities in the areas for many years.

The gang leader had been on the police watchlist for years and had bounty of N30 million placed on his head by Governor Nyesom Wike.

Read Also: Gunmen Attack Abuja Community, Kidnap 20 Residents

He was arrested in the early hours of Saturday, in a sting by the …

Omozuwa: Police Parade Suspected Killers Of UNIBEN Student

Omozuwa: Police Parade Suspected Killers Of UNIBEN Student

August 27, 2020 3:02 pm

Three months after the brutal rape and murder of Vera Omozuwa, a 100-level student of the University of Benin, the Edo State Police Command on Wednesday paraded six suspects in connection with the crime.

PREMIUM TIMES reported how the victim, Vera Omozuwa, a 100-level Microbiology student of UNIBEN, was beaten inside a hall in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Ikpoba Hill, Benin City on May 13, where she went to study.

She died on May 31, 18 days after, at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital.

She was 23 years old.

Read Also; Vera Omozuwa: Police IG Takes Over

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