In yet another of the many missteps that have become the hallmark of the Goodluck Jonathan administration, the police, acting on a presidential order, on Monday detained four journalists with the Abuja-based Leadership newspapers. Their arrest came after their newspaper published a story, on 3 April, that President Jonathan had, in a leaked memo, issued [...]
A Rapid Response Squad, RRS, officer attached to Pen Cinema Police Station under Area ‘G’ Ogba Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, Constable Nafiu was killed early this morning during a gun battle between the police and armed robbers who stormed a new generation bank along College Road, Ogba. When P.M.NEWS visited the bank this morning, security [...]
The police said the blasts which rocked a very busy and popular area of Karu, one of the satellite towns of the Federal Capital Territory, was caused by an industrial gas cylinder and not from bomb as being speculated. The blast which occurred early Monday evening in an area near an outlet of popular fast [...]
The police in Kano State on Tuesday intercepted a Golf 3 car with arms and ammunition at Inusawa village in Ungogo Local Government Area. The Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Musa Daura, told newsmen in Kano on Wednesday that the car with registration number AG 701 KTN, was intercepted on Tuesday around 9.30 p.m. following a [...]
A 28-year old woman, Mrs Kelechi Amadi who allegedly stole a baby, has been arrested by the police in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria. Kelechi was arrested by the police at about 10p.m. at Itoga road Badagry, Lagos with a stolen three-month old baby boy, Chidera Iwuegbu. The new baby belongs to one of her neighbours, [...]
The Nigerian Immigration Service has commenced the mass deportation of illegal aliens arrested in different parts of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria following fears of the presence of suspected Boko Haram members in the state. Security has been beefed up at strategic areas in the state to prevent attack on Lagos by Boko Haram extremists`. In [...]
Fifteen persons were arrested during a raid by the police in an uncompleted building opposite the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) Headquarters, Abuja. A witness told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday that about 50 armed policemen stormed the building which serves as business centre for the CAC customers in the early hours of [...]
