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Why ban on knockouts appear slack – Police
The police says there is little they can do to effectively enforce the ban on the use of fireworks and…
Pressure mounts on Police to fish out killers of LASTMA zonal commander
The Lagos State Police Command may have been subjected to intense pressure by the State Government to fish out the…
Yuletide: Police ban use of fireworks, bangers, others
Police in Jigawa State have placed a total ban on the use of fireworks, bangers and other explosives during the…
Synagogue stampede: Police confirms 3 dead, warn churches on crowd control
The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed that three people were killed at the weekend during a stampede at the…
Police arrest 2 syndicates circulating fake US dollars
The Police in Enugu have arrested two suspects for printing and circulating fake U.S. currency notes (dollars) and for swindling…
Man nabbed for hitting police with charm
A 22-year-old unemployed man, Niyi Akande, who allegedly hit a police officer with a charm, was on Thursday docked at…
Police arrest 10 suspects for abusing female IDPs
The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Ibrahim Idris, said two policemen, three Soldiers, one prison official, one Air Force personnel,…
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Police arrest kidnappers who murdered Dangote employee
The Nigerian police said they have arrested three of the kidnappers who murdered one of the employees of Dangote Group…
Police rescue kidnap victim, arrest 4 suspects
Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu, Enugu State Police Commissioner,[/caption The Enugu state Police Command, has rescued Miss Chinenye Nwobodo, 18, a kidnapped…
Ambode raises police death insurance benefit to N10m
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday announced an increment to the death insurance benefit for police…
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Illegal oil depot uncovered in Lagos, Police arrests 8 suspects
The Lagos State Police Command on Thursday uncovered an illegal oil depot located underneath the Oregun-Opebi Link Bridge in Onigbongbo…
Police arraign 25-year-old applicant for impersonation
The Police, on Tuesday, arraigned an applicant, Idris Obara, at a Wuse Zone 2 Chief Magistrates’ Court for a two-count-…
UPDATE: Police confirm two more explosions in Maiduguri
The Borno Police Command on Friday confirmed two more explosions after a separate suspected suicide bombing in Maiduguri. Mr Damian…
BREAKING: 9 killed as Shiites clash with police
Eight members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) and one policeman have died during a clash between police and…
Police set up panel to investigate IDPs abuse
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris has set up a special investigation panel to investigate cases of alleged sexual…
Police discovers ritualists’ den
The Zone 2 Police Command says it has discovered a ritualists’ den in Abule Ifa, Siunin, Obafemi Owode Local Government…
Counsel accuses police of delaying justice
Mr Kimi Appah, counsel to an 84-year-old man, Muazu Isa accused of serially raping a 10-year-old orphan in Kaduna, on…
Police arrest 5 kidnappers in Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga Officials of the Nigerian Police have arrested five kidnappers who have carried out kidnapping activities at Isheri area…
Police intensify search for kidnapped landlords
The Police in Lagos, Ogun and Zone-2 Command have intensified search for four landlords abducted by unknown gunmen in Isheri,…
DSS, police must apologise for demanding postponement of Edo Election-CPPM
The Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) has demanded a public apology from the Nigeria Police Force and…
Police arrest house guard who killed employer in Ajah
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Tanko Abdulateef, a 22-year old house guard who allegedly killed…
Police arrest kidnappers of Indian expatriate in Benue
The Nigerian police have arrested four suspected kidnappers who abducted an Indian expatriate and others recently in Benue State. The…
Police raid gay wedding ceremony in Nigeria
A tip-off received by Nigeria’s intelligence officers led to police raiding a suspected gay wedding ceremony on Saturday in the…
Abused 4-year-old child tells police her name is ‘Idiot’
The little girl was abused so badly she had a black eye, dried blood in the corner of her mouth…
Police arrest kidnappers of National Assembly lawmaker
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Nigeria police have paraded three suspected kidnappers who allegedly kidnap a member of the National Assembly, Sani…
Man scaling Trump Tower in New York rescued by police
A man who scaled the Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday for more than two hours using what looked…
Police arrest robber, recover locally-made pistol
Kazeem Ugbodaga The police in Lagos have arrested a suspected armed robber with a locally-made pistol at Maroko area of…
Breaking News: Gun battle rages as militants engage police, soldiers in Igando
Igando area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria was turned into a battle ground early today as Niger Delta militants engaged…
Police arrest killers of business magnate, Ogunranti
The Nigeria Police Force has arrested the murderers of late Olalekan Ogunranti, Managing Director, Todays Prints Ltd. The late Ogunranti…
Police on trail of abductors of monarch-Lagos CP
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni on Monday said the police are on the trail of the gunmen who…